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

Samuel Pierce was born in 1819 in Hebron, New Hampshire. He was an apprentice with E. & G.G. Hook of Boston, Massachusetts. He established Samuel Pierce Organ Pipe Co. of Reading, Massachusetts, in 1847; the firm acquired the H.L. Campbell firm in 1910. Pierce died in 1895 in Reading, Massachusetts.

Sources:

• The Diapason, November 1924, 39.




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See main entry:
Samuel Pierce Organ Pipe Co.; see also
E. & G.G. Hook & Hastings;