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

Born 1838; son of George Krauss; with the family firm of Palm, Pennsylvania; died March 18, 1929 in Quakertown, Pennsylvania.

Edwin was the fourth generation of organbuilders in the Krauss family, his great-grandfather, Baltzer built the first organ in the 1770s with the help of his sons, John and Andrew. Andrew was Edwin's grandfather. —Ed.

Sources:

• Raymond J. Brunner.


• The Diapason May 1929, 19.


• Orpha Ochse, The History of the Organ in the United States (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1975), 68.