2004-10-30/2019-12-12 - From the OHS PC Database, derived from A Guide to North American Organbuilders, by David H. Fox (Richmond, Va.: Organ Historical Society, 1991). — George J. Corrie was born 1816 in England; he was the son of Henry John Corrie, and brother of John H. and William A. Corrie. He was in Boston, Massachusetts until 1827; in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, by 1828; with his father's firm. Sources: Orpha Ochse, The History of the Organ in the United States (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1975), 173. Barbara Owen, The Organ in New England (Raleigh: Sunbury Press, 1979), 400.
2019-12-13/2019-12-13 - From Organ Database Builders editor Charles Eberline, December 12, 2019. — George J. Corrie, the eldest son of Henry John Corrie, was born in England on October 8, 1816. Eugene McCracken and Stephen Pinel gave no details about his early life, but Pinel noted that Henry Corrie, according to his own account, had found so favorable a reception in America that he had sent for his family to settle in Boston; it further seems likely that George Corrie moved to Philadelphia with the rest of the Corrie family in 1828. He worked with his father between the death of the elder Corrie’s partner John Hubie in 1837 and the formation of the Philadelphia Organ Manufactory by Henry Corrie and D.B. Grove in 1840. Diaries of the Moravians in Salem, North Carolina, record that he tuned and repaired two organs in Salem in December 1845; the Salem congregation also paid his traveling expenses from and to Philadelphia. In 1847 and later years he was listed in the Philadelphia city directories as a music teacher. According to McCracken, he taught at Villanova College and was organist at Gesu Church at 18th and Styles Streets in Philadelphia. He died in Philadelphia on September 11, 1902. Sources: Eugene McCracken, “The Elusive Corries,” The Tracker 3, no. 2 (January 1959), 3. Stephen L. Pinel, “Late from London: Henry Corrie, Organbuilder, and His Family,” The Tracker 40, no. 4 (1996),
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