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

Born 1770; son of Baltzer Krauss, Jr., brother of Andrew Krauss; he studied at Hosensack Academy of Chestnut Hill, Pennsylvania, and was a teacher there, 1794-1795.

John Krauss built organs with his brother, Andrew Krauss, in Kraussdale, Pennsylvania, 1796-1812; he was also a builder of wool carding machines, a surveyor, and a farmer; John Krauss died in 1819.

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.