2004-10-30/2019-02-11 - From the OHS PC Database, derived from A Guide to North American Organbuilders by David H. Fox (Organ Historical Society, 1991). - Born c. 1826 in Sweden; in eastern United States; in Blackhawk, Colorado, 1862; in Central City, Colorado, c. 1862, jeweler; partner with George Silsby in Anderson-Silsby firm of Denver, Colorado, c. 1875; died 1922. Sources: The Bicentennial Tracker (Organ Historical Society, 1976), 117. James M. Bratton, "Hook Your Hastings to a Steer," Colorado Episcopalian. Barbara Owen. Tracker 8:1, 12. Elizabeth Towne Schmitt.
2015-08-11/2020-04-09 - For further information see Anderson-Silby
2016-08-14/2019-02-11 - From the OHS Database Builders Listing editor, August 14, 2016. - Ortha Osche gives Anderson-s birth year as 1836.1 Her only citation for the section on Anderson is an article in Music (predecessor to American Organist) by James Bratton.2 Source: Orpha Ochse, The History of the Organ in the United States (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1975), 308-9. James M. Bratton, "Pipe Organs before 1900,� Music 2, no. 5 (May 1968): 33, 45 (cited in Ochse).
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