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). - Father of George W. Earle Jr.; apprentice with Thomas Hall of New York City, New York, and the Hook firm of Boston, Massachusetts; active in Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1860, pipemaker; in New York City, 1863, (with Odell firm?); partner in Earle & Beale of New York City, 1864; in Riverhead, New York, c.1870; partner with Ahaz Bradley in Earle & Bradley of Riverhead, c. 1873; operated saw mill and organ firm in Cold Spring Harbor, New York, 1877; in Hempstead, New York, 1884, organbuilder, reed pipemaker; partner with his son in Earle & Son of Hempstead, New York, 1906; Died age 83; succeeded by his son. Sources: Boston Organ Club Newsletter: 134:5. The Diapason: July 1918, 18. Orpha Ochse, The History of the Organ in the United States (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1975), 279. John Ogasapian, Organ Building in New York City 1700-1900 (Braintree, MA: The Organ Literature Foundation 1977), 184. Elizabeth Towne Schmitt. The Tracker: 9:2 (Winter, 1965), 10. The Tracker: 32:1 (Winter, 1988), 25. Stephen Pinel.
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