From the OHS PC Database, derived from A Guide to North American Organbuilders, rev. ed. by David H. Fox (Organ Historical Society, 1997). -

Born 30 September 1828 in Eisenberg, Saxony, Germany; immigrated to the United States, 1849; with Irwin's Institute of Danbury, Connecticut, 1849-1850, teacher; in Danbury Connecticut, 1850-1856, music teacher, piano tuner; in Lake Mills, Wisconsin, 1856-1858, hardware retailer; in Watertown, Wisconsin, 1858-1881, music retailer, melodeon {reed organ} builder, pipe organbuilder by 1869; with Northwestern College, music teacher; in La Crosse, Wisconsin, 1882 to after 1885, organbuilder, director of Germania Society; died 9 April 1898 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Sources:

• History of Jefferson County [Wisconsin] (Western Historical
  Society, Chicago, 1879).


• Musical and Sewing Machine Gazette: 28 February 1880, 51.


• Elizabeth Towne Schmitt.