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 Dec. 1817 in Ingelfingen, Württemberg, Germany; brother of August and Georg Gemunder; with Walcker firm of Ludwigsburg, Germany; in Springfield, Massachusetts, by 1852; with Steinway & Sons, pianos, of New York City, New York; in Columbus, Ohio, early 1860s; died Nov. 1884 in Columbus, Ohio. Patents: with Georg Gemunder: Patent #9,022; 15 Jun. 1852; organ alone: Patent #200,449; 19 Feb. 1878; pipe Sources: Martin Kares, The German Element in American Organbuilding, 1700-1900 (dissertation, Marburg 1990). Barbara Owen, The Organ in New England (Raleigh: Sunbury Press, 1979), 408.
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