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; rev. ed., 1997, with updated information). -

Born 1827 in Scotland; father of George B. Kemp, Sr.; partner of Thomas Hall and John Labagh in Hall, Labagh & Co. of New York City, New York, 1868; in successor Labagh & Kemp, 1872; died 1891 in New York City, New York.

Sources:

• Orpha Ochse, The History of the Organ in the United States (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1975), 148.
• John Ogasapian, Organ Building in New York City 1700-1900 (Braintree, MA: The Organ Literature Foundation 1977), 52.
• Dr. Stephen Pinel.
• Stephen L. Pinel, "Organbuilders and Their Families: in the Population Schedules of the Federal and State Census Surveys", The Tracker: 32:1 (Richmond, Va.: Organ Historical Society, 1988), 24.

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 George B. Kemp Sr.; partner of Thomas Hall and John Labagh in Hall, Labagh & Co. of New York City, New York, 1868; in successor Labagh & Kemp, 1872.

The following note in the PC Database is not part of the Fox entry, it is presumed to have been added by a previous editor based on their personal knowledge.

Keraulophon [Newsletter of the New York chapter of the OHS] says he was born 1826 in Troy, New York.

Sources:

• Orpha Ochse, The History of the Organ in the United States (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1975), 148.
• John Ogasapian, Organ Building in New York City 1700-1900 (Braintree, MA: The Organ Literature Foundation 1977), 52.