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 1824 in Scotland; active in New York City, New York, by
1850 to after 1887; died June 12, 1900, in New York City,
New York.

Sources:

• The Cypher - News letter of the Greater St. Louis Chapter of the Organ Historical Society 2:1.


• Musical and Sewing Machine Courier April 20, 1881, 310.


• Orpha Ochse, The History of the Organ in the United States (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1975), 168.


• John Ogasapian, Organ Building in New York City 1700-1900 (Braintree, Mass.: The Organ Literature Foundation 1977),
  2. Stephen L. Pinel, "Organbuilders and Their Families in the Population Schedules of the Federal and State Census Surveys", The Tracker 32:1 (Richmond, Va.: Organ Historical Society, 1988), 28.