Post Frank Holton After retiring, at age 82 Frank Holton sold the company to employee William Kull.

Holton also began production of saxophones in the late Chicago days, and would remain in production of such instruments into the post World War II era. The band had served as the 12th Regimental Band from 1861 to 1864 during the Civil War.Already building a full line of high-end brass instruments, Holton recognized the growth of music in the schools and began selling student-line instruments built by other workshops under the trade names Pertin and Beaufort. That building remained as the core of the Holton factory until the decision in 2008 to merge Holton horn production with King and Conn instruments in Eastlake, Ohio.While the factory had been paid for by the city of Elkhorn, the cost of training skilled labor resulted in the first profits there not being seen until 1920.Along with machinery and employees, Holton brought the company band to Elkhorn which would quickly merge with the storied Elkhorn Band, which had been founded in 1840 by Charles Seelye only 3 years after the town of Elkhorn itself. The city had lured Holton to Elkhorn through the efforts of a group of local businessmen, who, acting under city mandate, built the new factory which was turned over to Holton and Co. It would be home to Frank Holton & Company for only a decade.Elkhorn In April 1918, Holton opened a factory in, Wisconsin moving over 200 employees and 85 of machinery from Chicago.

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