John Dennett Nutter

Active: Unknown - Present Type: Builder

Distinction:

Mont Vernon, New Hampshire, c.1830-c.1845; Nashua, 1844; Mont Vernon, 1848-1853; Montreal, Quebec, 1870s? Malden, Massachusetts, 1888-1890.

Database Manager on October 30th, 2004:

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

Born 1811 in Barnstead, New Hampshire; brother of Benjamin Nutter; active with brother in Mont Vernon, New Hampshire, c.1830-c.1845; with Ephraim Stetson in Nashua, [New Hampshire,] 1844; in Mont Vernon (Nashville?), New Hampshire, 1848-1853; banker in Attica, Indiana; in Nashua, 1855; operated lumber business in Montreal, Quebec, Canada; in Malden, Massachusetts, 1888; died January 19, 1890 in Malden, Massachusetts.

Sources:

  • Orpha Ochse, The History of the Organ in the United States (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1975), 140.

  • Barbara Owen, The Organ in New England (Raleigh: Sunbury Press, 1979), 408.

  • 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), 23.

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