2004-10-30/2019-09-25 - 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 February 6, 1818 in Strasfürth bei Erfurt, Saxony, Germany; in St. Louis, Missouri, by 1845; retired to Collionsville, Illinois, c. 1865; succeeded by Johann G. Pfeffer, 1864; died April 17, 1896 in Collinsville, Illinois. Staff: Christof Metz; Ferdinand Metz. Sources: Local business directories of the place and period. Edwardsville, Illinois, Intelligencer April 21, 1896. Orpha Ochse, The History of the Organ in the United States (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1975), 187. Organ Handbook (Organ Historical Society, 1986), 19. Elizabeth Towne Schmitt.
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