From the OHS PC Database, derived from A Guide to North American Organbuilders, by David H. Fox (Richmond, Va.: Organ Historical Society, 1991; rev. ed., 1997, with updated information). —

Born in Durham, England; in Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada, c. 1860; installed Bevington organ in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, 1862; hotel operator.

Sources:

• Kallmann et al., Encyclopedia of Music in Canada (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1981), 712.


• Music* March 1972 (New York: American Guild of Organists), 22.


• Elizabeth Towne Schmitt.

*Renamed The American Organist beginning with January 1979 issue. —Ed.