M. P. Möller
Opus 8077, 1950

From the Moller contract for Opus 8077. Interesting that all organ builders bidding on the 1950 job were interested in keeping the "old tracker" organ. In the end, the Moller representative removed the organ and was allowed to keep it for his use:
It is agreed that the tracker organ now located in First Baptist Church, Marion, Illinois, becomes the property of the Moller Organ Company under the terms of this contract and will be removed upon notice to do so from First Baptist Church. [Original builder not identified.]

I did not want to allow $550 for the old organ even though it is a good sized tracker with good pipework. But in the early days of this deal, Kilgen and Reuter had
told them the old organ was worth $800 or so. Apparently A-S also kept up the old organ, so I had to go up too. I had allowed only $350 for it, but when this last spec came in for our bid, I added $300 to the price, and then ostensibly made them an allowance of $650 which pleased them. But in the final running, the organist wanted a knob console and she liked Moller organs, but they could not go $400 additional for this. So I agreed to do it for $200. All this is of no matter now, as the schedule price of this job is $13 024 and I sold it for $12,470 so you are to deduct $554 from my commission and I get the old organ. I won't get over $3OO for it, but its one of those things. I felt we would get it, but A-S was pushing for it, strange to say, so I felt it better to get it signed up.
-- Factory Inter-Office Correspondence, To: Daniels, From: Brummer, May 21, 1949.

Moved at some point to a new worship center; replaced in 2007 by an Allen.

Identified from factory documents and publications courtesy of Stephen Schnurr.