Note from the OHS PC Database, derived from A Guide to North American Organbuilders, by David H. Fox (Richmond, Va.: Organ Historical Society, 1991, rev. ed. 1997, with updated information). -

Born February 6, 1818 in Strasfürth bei Erfurt, Saxony, Germany;
in St. Louis, Missouri, by 1845; retired to Collionsville,
Illinois, c. 1865; succeeded by Johann G. Pfeffer, 1864; died
April 17, 1896 in Collinsville, Illinois.

Staff: Christof Metz; Ferdinand Metz.

Sources:

• Local business directories of the place and period.


• Edwardsville, Illinois, Intelligencer April 21, 1896.


• Orpha Ochse, The History of the Organ in the United States (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1975), 187.


• Organ Handbook (Organ Historical Society, 1986), 19.


• Elizabeth Towne Schmitt.