2004-10-30/2019-09-20 - From the OHS PC Database, derived from A Guide to North American Organbuilders, by David H. Fox (Richmond, Va.: Organ Historical Society, 1991). — Born in Chelsea, Massachusetts; son of George Horatio Ryder; with his father's firm [Boston, later Reading, Massachusetts, c.1880s-1890s]; representative of Ernest M. Skinner of Boston, Massachusetts, in New York City, New York, 1902; with George S. Hutchings firm of Massachusetts; established his own firm in Atlanta, Georgia, by 1916; representative of Frazee firm of Everett, Massachusetts, c. 1928; previously in Charleston, West Virginia; representative of the Estey firm of Brattleboro, Vermont, in Atlanta, Georgia, 1931; died April 8, 1957. Staff: Thomas J. Quinlan. Sources: The Diapason September 1928, 44. The Diapason May 1957, 5.
2019-09-21/2019-09-21 - From the OHS PC Database, (James H. Cook and Elizabeth Towne Schmitt, co-editors). — Also did some erections/rebuilding of Pilcher organs c. 1926. Source not listed, presumed to be personal knowledge of the editors or information supplied to them by an unnamed person.
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