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

Born 1803; son of Andrew Krauss, father of Edwin Krauss; with family firm of Kraussdale, Pennsylvania, and Palm, Pennsylvania; died 1880.

Sources:

• Raymond J. Brunner.


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


• Ella Krauss Althouse, "Krauss Family Organ Builders", The Tracker 21:1 (Richmond, Va.: Organ Historical Society, 1977), 3.