Kammer in 1946
B: 29 January 1888, Hungary
D: 7 January 1966, Broward, Florida
Michael Joseph Kammer is listed in his WW1 draft card and 1920 census as a music roll arranger for the Melville Clark Piano Co.
Married Carrie Herlugson in 1913 in Illinois. Obtained citizenship in 1914 and served in WW1.
By 1936 they had relocated to Kokomo, Indiana. By then he had changed career to become a Dental Technician, owning the Midwest Dental Laboratory. In 1947 he was elected president of the newly-formed Kokomo Community Orchestra. He was still active musically in his leisure time as late as 1950, being cellist for a quartet that performed socially and playing in the American Legion Band (principal horn). By 1959 he had retired to Pompano Beach, Florida.
In 1944, QRS/US roll artist and fellow Kokomo resident Harold Wansborough dedicated a composition, his suite 'Under Southern Skies', to Kammer and his wife, suggesting a relationship of some sort.
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