William W. Laws
1930s

From the 1992 OHS Handbook:
In January 1878, a new organ was installed behind the pulpit; the records so far have not revealed what became of the 1860 Hook.

The new organ was purchased "through the efforts of Mr. B. F. Wood, who returning from musical studies in Boston, assumed the duties of organist in the summer of 1876." When the church burned 14 August 1985, the organ in the building was a "2-31" E. & G. G. Hook & Hastings, Op. 626, 1872, built originally for "Union Hall" in Cambrldgeporl, Massachusetts, which had been electrified and enlarged to three manuals by W. W. Laws, of Beverly, Massachusetts, in the 1930s. Whether Op. 626 is the instrument that the High Street church obtained in 1878 (a mere six years after the organ was built), or whether W. W. Laws moved it in when he electrified ii, we do not know. If the latter, there would have been some other organ in the church from 1878 to the 1930s, which W. W. Laws would, presumably, have removed. What it might have been, again, we do not know.