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

Partner with John M. Miller in Miller & Karn {Woodstock Organ Co.} of Woodstock, Ontario, Canada, 1867-1870; Karn acquired the firm and eventually renamed it D. W. Karn Co., reed and pipe organs; he later acquired S. R. Warren & Sons as the Karn-Warren firm, 1896-1909; and was partner in Karn-Morris Piano & Organ Co. [Unionized around turn of the century.*]

*Information in brackets is not in Fox's Guide, presumably added by former editor, Elizabeth Towne Schmitt. —Ed.

Sources:

• Robert F. Gellerman, Gellerman’s International Reed Organ Atlas (Vestal, NY: The Vestal Press, 1985), 67.
• Kallmann et al., Encyclopedia of Music in Canada (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1981), 711.