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

Born 1828, Berks Co., Pennsylvania; father of Franklin J., Washington, and William Kantner; active in Montgomery County, Berks County, Mount Pleasant, Pennsylvania, 1850s and 1860s, reed and pipe organs; died 1888.

Sources:

• Raymond J. Brunner, ‘’That Ingenious Business’’: Pennsylvania German Organbuilders (Birdsboro, Pennsylvania: The Pennsylvania German Society 1990), 199.


• John Speller.