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

Son of Felix F. Schoenstein, brother of Erwin A., Leo F., and Louis J. Schoenstein; with father's firm [Felix F. Schoenstein & Sons] in San Francisco, California, c. 1911, partner; representative of the Austin Organ Inc. of Hartford, Connecticut, 1959; died October 21, 1969 in San Francisco, California.

Sources:

• The Bicentennial Tracker (Richmond, Va., The Organ Historical Society, 1976), 118.


• The Diapason December 1969, 12.


• Orpha Ochse, The History of the Organ in the United States (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1975), 315.


• Louis J. Schoenstein, Memoirs of a San Francisco Organ Builder (San Francisco: Cue Publications, 1977), 491.


• Elizabeth Towne Schmitt.