From the OHS PC Database, (James H. Cook and Elizabeth Towne Schmitt, co-editors). —

Amateur builder in Forest Grove, Oregon. [no date listed in the database]

Source not listed, presumed to be personal knowledge of the editors or information supplied to them by an unnamed person.

From Organ Database Builders editor Stephen Hall, May 6, 2019. —

Possible relation(?) to J.L. Bamford with Hook & Hastings of Kendall Green, Massachusetts, c.1894-c.1911.