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

James Woodberry was born in England; he and his brother Jesse Woodberry emigrated to the United States sometime in the 1880s and worked with Hook & Hastings of Boston, Massachusetts. After leaving Hook & Hastings, he and his brother Jesse, were partners with James Cole in the firm of Cole & Woodberry of Boston, Massachusetts, from 1886 to 1899.

Sources:

• Orpha Ochse, The History of the Organ in the United States (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1975), 246.


• Barbara Owen, The Organ in New England (Raleigh: Sunbury Press, 1979), 417.

For further information, see:
Cole & Woodberry