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

Born April 17, 1826 in Ealing, England; in Australia, 1849; carpenter in Sidney, Australia; in California, 1856; in Salt Lake City, Utah, 1857; active in 1860s; died 1914.

Staff: David Anderson; Niels Johnson;
Shure Olsen;

William Pinney;

John Sandberg;

Frank Woods.

Sources:

• Orpha Ochse, The History of the Organ in the United States (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1975), 189.


• Barbara Owen.


• The American Organist December 1988 (New York: American Guild of Organists), 56.

 

From the Organ Historical Society Pipe Organ Database -

Joseph Ridges built the original organ in the Mormon Tabernacle in Salt Lake City, Utah. The organ was dispersed, but the original case and 32-foot, round, wooden facade pipes still form the central portion of the case. See entry: Joseph Ridges - Mormon Tabernacle, Salt Lake City, Utah