2004-10-30/2019-04-29 - From the OHS PC Database, derived from A Guide to North American Organbuilders, by David H. Fox (Richmond, Va.: Organ Historical Society, 1991). - Born November 30, 1835 in Florida, Missouri; uncle of Jervis Langdon; noted writer and humorist; with Hope-Jones firm of Elmira, New York, 1907-1910, stockholder; died April 21, 1910 in Stamfield, Connecticut. Source: David H. Fox.
2015-09-07/2020-04-09 - See entry at Hope-Jones Organ Co.
2018-05-07/2019-02-11 - Note from the Organ Database Builders editor Stephen Hall, September 1, 2017. - The author of Innocents Abroad, Life on the Mississippi, The Prince and the Pauper; and literary father of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn was not an organbuilder, but near the end of his life, he invested in the short-lived Hope-Jones Organ Co. Despite its celebrity investors and well-publicized head, the Hope-Jones firm failed in three years, and its assets were acquired by Rudolph Wurlitzer Co. which was successful in selling unit orchestral organs for theaters rather than concert halls.
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