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 1895 in Hungary; with George Kilgen & Son of St. Louis, Missouri, 1927; with successor E. R. Kilgen Co. of St. Louis, Missouri, 1939. Sources: Diapason, Sep. 1939, 2. Elizabeth Towne Schmitt.
2015-08-29/2019-02-11 - From the OHS PC Database Builders Listing editor, updated August 24, 2016. - Julius Bakos (Hungarian?) came to the United States in 1918. He was with Geo. Kilgen & Son from 1927, then with the successor firm E. R. Kilgen Co. which became The Kilgen Organ Co. He later became a Field Engineer, for the New York District of Aircraft division, in 1952. Sources: David H. Fox, A Guide to North American Organbuilders by David H. Fox (Organ Historical Society, 1991) 60. Source??
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