2004-10-30/2019-10-14 - From the OHS PC Database, derived from A Guide to North American Organbuilders, by David H. Fox (Richmond, Va.: Organ Historical Society, 1991). — Brother of George Berger; with Anton Dressel in Hollfeld, [Bavaria]; in his own business in Bamberg, [Bavaria,] 1843; immigrated 1849 to Baltimore, Maryland, established his own firm there; in Jefferson Station, York Co., in Pennsylvania, 1855; in Tiffin, Ohio, 1862; died July 24, 1864. Staff: (H. Mayer?); George Berger; Ernst A. Humitsch; George Rovial; Fred Schmidt. Sources: Martin Kares, The German Element in American Organbuilding, 1700-1900 (dissertation, Marburg 1990). Orpha Ochse, The History of the Organ in the United States (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1975), 179. Cleveland Fisher, "Henry F. Berger: His Organ at Old Fork Church", The Tracker, 8:2 (Richmond, Va.: Organ Historical Society, 1964), 1. Stephen L. Pinel, "Organbuilders and Their Families: in the Population Schedules of the Federal and State Census Surveys", The Tracker: 32:1 (Richmond, Va.: Organ Historical Society, 1988), 21.
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