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

Born 1934 Arlington, Virginia; with Lewis & Hitchcock, 1953; with Newcomer Organ Co. 1955; operated George Payne Pipe Organs, Richmond, Virginia, 1958-1967; purchased and merged with Lewis & Hitchcock, 1967, with locations in Silver Spring, Maryland, Vienna and Richmond, Virginia; acquired Newcomer Organ Co. of Washington, DC, 1983.

Staff: Rowland G. Byerly, Cyrus Caruthers, Caroline Payne, Joseph Graham, Peggy Hicks, Billy Sale.

Patent #3,548,703; December 22, 1970; swell.

Sources:

• Correspondence of David H. Fox.


• Uwe Pape, The Tracker Organ Revival in America, (Berlin: Pape Verlag, 1978), 427.