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Henry Ward Poole

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2004-10-30/2019-10-20 - From the OHS PC Database, derived from A Guide to North American Organbuilders, by David H. Fox (Richmond, Va.: Organ Historical Society, 1991). — Born 1826 in Danvers, Massachusetts; attended Yale University; associate of Joseph Alley Sr in Newburyport, Massachusetts; experimental organs; geologist, mining engineer, astronomer; pursued mining in Mexico; died 1890 in Mexico. Patents: Patent #6,565; July 3, 1849; Organ action. (Jointly with Joseph Alley) Patent #73,753; January 28, 1868; Enharmonic keyboard for organ. Sources: Orpha Ochse, The History of the Organ in the United States (Bloomington: Indiana University Press) 1975. 140. Barbara Owen, The Organ in New England (Raleigh: The Sunbury Press) 1979. 410.

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