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. with updated information). —

Born July 9, 1732 in Germany; immigrated to the Berks County, Pennsylvania, 1767; in Zion (now Old Dutch Buffalo Creek),
Rowan County, North Carolina, c. 1770; carpenter, organbuilder;
died November 21, 1796.

Sources:

• Orpha Ochse, The History of the Organ in the United States (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1975), 88.


• Martha C. Stirewalt.