2004-10-30/2019-09-26 - Note from the OHS PC Database, derived from A Guide to North American Organbuilders, by David H. Fox (Richmond, Va., Organ Historical Society, 1991). — Born May 27, 1823 in Schomberg, Württemberg, Germany; father of Fred Mayer; apprentice in Düsseldorf, Germany; in Strassburg, in Stuttgart, Germany. In New York City, New York, 1853; in Maryville, California, 1856; in San Francisco, California, 1860; retired to Santa Clara, California, 1885; active in San Francisco, California, 1899; died October 15, 1909 in San Francisco, California. Staff: Felix Schoenstein. Sources: James Lewis. Orpha Ochse, The History of the Organ in the United States (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1975), 189. Louis J. Schoenstein, Memoirs of a San Francisco Organ Builder (San Francisco: Cue Publications, 1977), 672. Elizabeth Towne Schmitt.
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