2004-10-30/2019-09-28 - Note from the OHS PC Database, derived from A Guide to North American Organbuilders, by David H. Fox (Richmond, Va., Organ Historical Society, 1991; rev. ed., 1997, with updated information). — Born May 3. 1883 in Reinstetten, Germany; with Sauer & Co. of Frankfurt on the Oder, Germany; with W. W. Kimball firm of Chicago, Illinois, 1901; with Geo. Kilgen & Son, Inc. of St. Louis, Missouri, c. 1919, chief engineer; with E. R. Kilgen Organ Co. of St. Louis, Missouri, 1939; died September 14, 1951 in St. Louis, Missouri. Patents: Patent #1,314,327; August 26, 1919; pipe. Patent #1,764,682; June 17, 1930; organ. Patent #2,261,999; November 11, 1941; electric action. Patent #1,770,752; July 15, 1930; combination stop action. (Jointly with Albert N. Boehm.) Sources: The Diapason, October 1951, 1. Elizabeth Towne Schmitt
2015-09-24/2019-09-28 - See also: Geo. Kilgen & Son, Inc.
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