2004-10-30/2019-09-02 - From the OHS PC Database, derived from A Guide to North American Organbuilders, by David H. Fox (Richmond, Va.: Organ Historical Society, 1991). - In Australia; in Watsonville, California; built organ for Fresno, California, 1912; died 1912. Sources: Louis J. Schoenstein, Memoirs of a San Francisco Organ Builder (San Francisco: Cue Publications, 1977), 545. Elizabeth Towne Schmitt
2020-05-12/2020-05-12 - My research into Martin Heatherington finds that he was born in Durham, England in 1856 and died in Fresno, California in 1903. He came to America in 1893 and found employment with John Sterre. In 1896 he relocated to Watsonville, Caifornia, where he had a father and brother living. In this location he built four organs: 1900- First Christian Church, Santa Cruz 1902- Calvary Episcopal Church, Santa Cruz 1903- St. John the Baptist R.C. Church, Fresno 1903- First Methodist Church, Fresno Nowhere have I found that he was ever in Austrialia. -Jim Lewis
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