2004-10-30/2019-02-11 - From the OHS PC Database, derived from A Guide to North America Organ Builders, by David H. Fox (Richmond, Va.: Organ Historical Society, 1991). - Partner in Phelps & Goodman of Syracuse, New York; established Cabinet Pipe Organ Co. of Syracuse, New York, 1872, combination reed and pipe organs. Patents awarded: Patent #103,448; May 24, 1870; organ. Patent #109,003; November 8, 1870; reed organ. Patent #133,851; December, 10 1872; cabinet organ. Patent #170,078; November 16, 1875; reed organ. Source: Robert F. Gellerman, Gellerman-s International Reed Organ Atlas (Vestal, N.Y.: Vestal Press, 1985), 52.
2018-05-07/2019-02-11 - From Organ Database Builders editor Charles Eberline, April 1, 2018. - Horatio Nelson Goodman was born on April 15, 1815, in Bolton, New York. He was listed as a "melodeon builder,†living in New Haven, Connecticut, in the 1850 census. David Whiteker and William Frisbie had partnered in 1847 to make melodeons in New Haven, but Goodman soon purchased Whiteker-s interests, and the firm then became Goodman & Frisbie. By 1853 Dr. Harvey Baldwin bought out Frisbie-s interests, and the firm became Goodman & Baldwin. Both Horatio and his brother, Czar Dunning Goodman (1826-1905) made reed organs together separately in New Haven until 1856, when Horatio, to judge from advertisements in New Haven newspapers, left that trade to promote an apple-paring and slicing machine. By the time of the 1860 census, he was a merchant in White Creek, New York. In 1868 Goodman partnered with Henry R. Phelps in Syracuse as Phelps & Goodman, "manufacturers of organs and melodeons.†Around 1870 he invented the cabinet pipe organ. This instrument was not a pipe organ but a reed organ with tubes appended to the reed mechanism to create a sound more like that of a pipe organ by increasing the instrument-s resonance. The instruments were constructed under license from Goodman from 1870 on by Redington & Co. in Syracuse. John C.O. Redington was a Civil War colonel who had operated a music-publishing and retailing business in Syracuse as Redington & Howe-s in 1868 and then as Clemens & Redington in 1869. Redington & Co. became the Cabinet Pipe Organ Company in 1872 when the stock was purchased by James Terwilliger, clerk of the New York State Senate, and James C. Mix, managing agent for New York State for the Aetna Life Insurance Company of Hartford, Connecticut. Syracuse city directories listed Goodman as the superintendent of the factory. The cabinet pipe organ was exhibited at fairs and was widely advertised, but publicity and production stopped in mid-1876. Terwilliger and Mix filed for insolvency and, on September 29, 1876, obtained an order from the Supreme Court of the State of New York requiring a sale by public auction of all the property of the firm, which was held on March 2, 1877. By 1880 Goodman had moved to Troy, New York, where he was a partner in Kelsey & Goodman, furniture manufacturers and dealers. He ended his career as a shirt manufacturer in Glens Falls, New York, and died there on June 14, 1885. Source: Michael D. Friesen, "Horatio N. Goodman,†in A History of Organbuilding in Syracuse, New York, and Vicinity (Richmond, Va.: OHS Press, 2014), 6-11.
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