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

Built organs for Groveville, Westbrook, and Portland, Maine, 1850s–1860s.

Sources:

• Orpha Ochse, The History of the Organ in the United States (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1975), 143.


• Barbara Owen, The Organ in New England (Raleigh: Sunbury Press, 1979), 406.

David Wallace wrote in a letter of 1 May 1991 to Mary Campbell that "Westbrook tax records show that Rufus Johnson owned a farm on Saco Street and paid personal properly taxes on an assortment of farm equipment. There is no record of [his] having a woodworking shop or the tools necessary to do the fine woodworking that he did on the two organs that exist built by him. There is also ... no [known] record of where he might have received his apprenticeship as an organ builder."
-- 1992 OHS Handbook