2004-10-30/2019-04-29 - From the OHS PC Database, derived from A Guide to North American Organbuilders, by David H. Fox (Richmond, Va.: Organ Historical Society, 1991). - Commercial clerk in England; associate of Robert Hope-Jones; with Hope-Jones Electric Co. of Birkenhead, England; with successor Norman & Beard of Norwich, England; with Ernest M. Skinner firm of Boston, Massachusetts, 1906; with Hope-Jones Organ Co. of Elmira, New York, 1907-1910; with successor Rudolph Wurlitzer Manufacturing Co. firm of North Tonawanda, New York; with C.F. Winder firm of Richmond, Virginia, 1914; with A. Gottfried & Co.of Erie, Pennsylvania, 1917; with Welte Co. in Los Angeles, California, 1926, installer; in Glendale, California, c. 1940, reed voicer; inventor; died November, 1949 in California. Sources: The Diapason November 1914, 7. The Diapason October 1917, 8. The Diapason March 1926, 8. David H. Fox. David L. Junchen, Encyclopedia of the American Theatre Organ, vol. 2 (Pasadena: Showcase Publications, 1989), 677. Letter of Henry J. Carruthers. Barbara Owen.
2018-05-07/2019-02-11 - From Organ Database Builders editor Stephen Hall, March 9, 2018. - James Nuttall and Henry J. Carruthers were the best known two of the small retinue of skilled workers that Robert Hope-Jones brought with him to the United States from England. They followed Hope-Jones as he went through various companies: Austin, Ernest Skinner, Hope-Jones own firm in Elmira, New York, and its successor, the Hope-Jones division of the Rudolph Wurlitzer Manufacturing Co. After Hope-Jones suicide in 1914, the "team" split up, each man following his own calling to the next opportunity. As a reed voicer trained in England, Nuttall may have had more opportunities than most; English voicers were in demand in the United States during the period.
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