2004-10-30/2019-09-30 - From the OHS PC Database, derived from A Guide to North American Organbuilders, by David H. Fox (Richmond, Va.: Organ Historical Society, 1991). — Born 1838; son of George Krauss; with the family firm of Palm, Pennsylvania; died March 18, 1929 in Quakertown, Pennsylvania. Edwin was the fourth generation of organbuilders in the Krauss family, his great-grandfather, Baltzer built the first organ in the 1770s with the help of his sons, John and Andrew. Andrew was Edwin's grandfather. —Ed. Sources: Raymond J. Brunner. The Diapason May 1929, 19. Orpha Ochse, The History of the Organ in the United States (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1975), 68.
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