2004-10-30/2019-04-29 - From the OHS PC Database, derived from A Guide to North American Organbuilders, by David H. Fox (Organ Historical Society, 1991). - Born 1837 in Germany; in New York City, New York, by 1865; farmer in Texas, c. 1867; in Austin, Texas, c. 1875 to beyond 1904, music store and organ shop; died 1907. Source: Orpha Ochse, The History of the Organ in the United States (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1975), 307.
2018-05-07/2019-06-20 - From Builders Editor Stephen Hall: Information discovered by Pat Bozeman and forwarded to the database by George Bozeman, June 20, 2019. — Edward Pfeifer, born 1839 in Algiers of German parentage. Apparently moved to Germany prior to immigrating to the United States as at least two of his sons were born there. Immigrated to the United States in 1883, in Travis county Texas by 1900. Occupation listed as "organ manufacturer" in federal census of 1900. Sons Edmond, born Germany 1866, and Evald, born Germany 1880, also listed as in the same occupation with their father.
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