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

Born November 14, 1808 in Nicholsschmiede, Silesia, Prussia; emigrated from Bremen April 14, 1855 to Galveston, Texas, arriving June 7 with wife and two daughters; relocated to Roundtop, Texas, 1860; organbuilder; died December 21, 1870.

Sources:

• G. D. Frank, The Life & Work of Johann Traugott
  Wandke (Boston Organ Club, 1990).


• Orpha Ochse, The History of the Organ in the United States (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1975), 307.