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). — Born in England; repaired organs in St. Paul, Minnesota; with W. W. Kimball firm of Chicago, Illinois, 1890; left firm in 1908. Patents: Patent #464,936, December 8, 1891; folding keyboard. Patent #464,937, December 8, 1891; spring clutch for organ pipe. Patent #469,242; February 23, 1892; folding keyboard. Patent #469,243; February 23, 1892; detachable keyboard. Patent #469,699; March 1, 1892; octave coupler and keyboard. Patent #470,241; March 8, 1892; bellows. Patent #470,242; March 8, 1892; blowing apparatus Patent #472,998; April 19, 1892; qualifying box for bass reeds Patent #476,266; June 7, 1892; coupler activator Patent #476,796; June 14, 1892; pneumatic action Patent #488,607; December 27, 1892; pneumatic action Patent #505,161; September 19, 1893; exhaust reed organ bellows Patent #580,048; April 6, 1897; pneumatic action Patent #590,545; September 21, 1897; pneumatic action Patent #628,535; July 11, 1899; player action Patent #628,937; July 18, 1899; crescendo and diminuendo device Patent #638,709; December 12, 1899; registration for player organ Sources: The Diapason, February 1925, 6. Orpha Ochse, The History of the Organ in the United States (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1975), 304.
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