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Josiah Richards

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2004-10-30/2019-11-06 - From the OHS PC Database, derived from A Guide to North American Organbuilders, by David H. Fox (Richmond, Va.: Organ Historical Society, 1991). — Born 1783 in West Bridgewater, Massachusetts; farmer; organbuilder by 1825; held local government posts; died 1868 in West Bridgewater, Massachusetts. [listed incorrectly in OW 411 as Joseph, see OW 93]

2020-07-23/2020-07-23 - Josiah Richards also built the first organ in the Union Congregational Church of East & West Bridgewater on Pleasant Street East Bridgewater, Mass. in 1828. -Wayne F. Nye

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