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

Born September 5, 1730 in Arfeld, Germany; active in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1750s-1760s; pipe organs, harpsichords; died October, 1767, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Sources:

• Raymond J. Brunner, ‘-That Ingenious Business--: Pennsylvania German Organbuilders (Birdsboro, Pennsylvania: The Pennsylvania German Society 1990), 59.


• Orpha Ochse, The History of the Organ in the United States (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1975), 41, 49.