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Distinction:

Highland, Illinois, 1906.
Classification: Builder

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August 24, 2015:

From the OHS Database Builders Listing editor, August 8, 2016. -

Adolph Wick was a cabinet maker, his brothers John and Louis enlisted his aid in building the wooden portions of the first Wicks pipe organ.1

Source:

  1. Rita Duckworth, "Wicks Heavenly History" Diel & Forguson, LLC, Blog, http://www.dielforguson.com/blog/wicks-heavenly-history/, Posted May 30, 2014. Accessed August 8, 2016.

We received the most recent update for this note from Database Manager on February 11, 2019.
October 30, 2004:

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

Brother of John F. Wick and Louis Wick; with Wicks firm of Highland, Illinois, 1906.

Source:

  • Junchen, David, Encyclopedia of the American Theatre Organ, Vol. 2 (Pasadena: Showcase Publications, 1990) 694.
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See main entry: Wicks Pipe Organ Co.

 

We received the most recent update for this note from Database Manager on April 29, 2019.

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