2004-10-30/2019-04-29 - From the OHS PC Database, derived from A Guide to North American Organbuilders, rev. ed., by David H. Fox (Organ Historical Society, 1997). - Born 1814 in Wolcottville, Connecticut; son of Jonah Dayton; active with father in Daytonville, Connecticut; chamber organs, 1840s; reed organs thereafter until c.1866. Patent #174,207; 29 Feb. 1876; reed organ bellows. Source: Robert F. Gellerman, Gellerman-s International Reed Organ Atlas (Vestal, NY: The Vestal Press, 1985) , 32. Orpha Ochse, The History of the Organ in the United States (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1975), 143. Barbara Owen, The Organ in New England (Raleigh: Sunbury Press, 1979), 400. Information taken from the text of a United States patent.
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