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

Born 1864 in Hungary; he established Von Jenny Organ Co. in 1892, with a factory in Corona, New York, and the office in Flushing, New York; the shop burned, 1921. Von Jenny died August 26, 1921, age 57, on a trip in Newfoundland, Pennsylvania.

Sources:

• The Diapason March 1921, 14.


• The Diapason April 1921, 8.


• The Diapason October 1921, 8.


• A biographical dictionary of organbuilders compiled by F. R. Webber ca. 1955; located in the OHS Library and Archives, 330 North Spring Mill Road, Villanova, Pennsylvania.