Pipe Organ Database

From the OHS PC Database, derived from A Guide to North American Organbuilders, by David H. Fox (Richmond, Va.: Organ Historical Society, 1991). —

Father of Edward A. and Carl A. Crome; in St. Louis, Missouri; with Schoenstein firm of San Francisco, California, c. 1890-1894; with Fletcher & Harris of Los Angeles, California, 1890s; with successor Murray M. Harris firm; with successor Los Angeles Art Organ Co. of Los Angeles, 1904; partner with J. Edgar Varnum in Crome & Varnum of Los Angeles, 1906; died December 29, 1930 in Los Angeles, California, succeeded by his sons.

Staff: Roy W. Tolchard.

Sources:

• Bicentennial Tracker: (Richmond, Va.: Organ Historical Society, 1976), 122.
• The Diapason: February 1931, 14.
• Orpha Ochse, The History of the Organ in the United States (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1975), 317.
• Louis J. Schoenstein, Memoirs of a San Francisco Organ Builder (San Francisco: Cue Publications, 1977), 26, 256.
• Elizabeth Towne Schmitt.
• F. R. Webber, "The St. Louis Exposition Organ", The Tracker: 3:3, (1959), 6.
• The American Organist: March 1926, 62.