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

Frances J. Rybak was born in 1900 in New York City. He was with Austin Organ Co. of Hartford Connecticut, 1925-1935. He was active in New York City, New York, in 1933 doing service work for Austin. He established his own business in White Plains, New York, in 1935; then relocated to Bronx, New York, in 1939. Rybak died October 29, 1951 in Yonkers, New York.

Sources:

• The Diapason, September 1933, 23.
• The Diapason, July 1939, 15.
• A biographical dictionary of organbuilders compiled by F. R. Webber ca. 1955; located in the OHS American Organ Archive, Talbot Library, Westminster Choir College, Princeton, New Jersey.*

*The OHS Archives were moved to the new OHS headquarters in Philadelphia, Penssylvania in 2017. —Ed.