Jim Stettner on November 1st, 2015: From the OHS PC Database, derived from A Guide to North American Organbuilders, by David H. Fox (Richmond, Va.: Organ Historical Society, 1991).
Born in England; immigrated to the United States, 1880's; U.S. representative of Hope-Jones Electric Organ Co. of Birkenhead, England; with Hutchings firm of Massachusetts, 1890; with Cole & Woodberry of Massachusetts, 1894; with Jardine firm of New York City, New York, 1897, voicer; with Austin firm of Hartford, Connecticut, 1902-1904; returned to England.
Patent #441,370; November 25, 1890; combination stop action.
Source: Orpha Ochse, The History of the Organ in the United States (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1975), 258.
Database Manager on October 30th, 2004:
Jim Stettner on April 15th, 2010: From the OHS Database Builders Listing editor, September 29, 2016.
Carlton Michell was an English organbuilder, he had a brief partnership with William Thyne in the mid 1880s, producing only four organs. Michell appears to have come to the United States shortly after the business failed. He built a few organs on his own, did voicing work for George Hutchings, and worked for other builders including Cole & Woodberry. Disappointed with American organbuilding, he returned to England sometime after 1897.