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

Born in Liverpool, England, c. 1884; immigrated to the United States, c. 1889; with Samuel Pierce Organ Pipe firm of Reading, Massachusetts, 1907-1911, pipemaker; with Farrand & Votey of Detroit, Michigan; with The Ernest M. Skinner Organ Co. of South Boston, Massachusetts , 1921, pipemaker; with Felix Schoenstein & Sons of San Francisco, California, pipemaker; with Artcraft Organ Co. of Santa Monica, California; operated his own firm in Berkeley, California, 1928; operated a service firm in San Diego, California, 1930s; active in 1960s.

Sources:

• Peter Cameron.


• The Diapason, February 1928, 52.


• One or more local directories of the places and period.


• Doris E. Bolton Gideon.


• Louis J. Schoenstein, Memoirs of a San Francisco Organ Builder (San Francisco: Cue Publications, 1977), 676.


• Elizabeth Towne Schmitt.

 

From Builders Editor Stephen Hall, December 30, 2019. —

Bolton died in February, 1980, in San Diego, California.

Source:

• Email from Armida Bolton, December 28, 2019.