2004-10-30/2019-11-14 - From the OHS PC Database, derived from A Guide to North American Organbuilders, by David H. Fox (Richmond, Va.: Organ Historical Society, 1991). — In Virginia, piano tuner; active in Cincinnati, Ohio, 1825-(1834?). Sources: Barbara J. Owen and Thomas Cunningham, "New Revised Builders List" [continued], The Tracker: 9:3 (Richmond, Va.: Organ Historical Society, 1965), 13. Kenneth Wayne Hart, "Cincinnati Organ Builders of the Nineteenth Century" part 1, The Tracker 20:3 (Richmond, Va.: Organ Historical Society, 1976), 11. Kenneth Wayne Hart, "Cincinnati Organ Builders of the Nineteenth Century" part 4, The Tracker 21:2 (Richmond, Va.: Organ Historical Society, 1977), 7.
2019-11-15/2019-11-15 - Excerpt from Kenneth Wayne Hart, "Cincinnati Organ Builders of the Nineteenth Century" part 4, The Tracker 21:2 (Richmond, Va.: Organ Historical Society, 1977), 7: There was at least one other organ builder in Cincinnati in the 1820s, Israel Schooley. He may have been the only non-Swedenborgian builder at that time. Less is known about Schooley than about any organ builder of the era. Schooley arrived in Cincinnati in 1825 from Virginia where his principal occupation was that of piano-tuner.37 He is consistently listed in the Cincinnati City Directories as "piano-maker."38 But Schooley is also mentioned as a competitor to Adam Hurdus in organ building. He may have built either cabinet organs or actual pipe organs.39 Schooley apparently left Cincinnati by 1834 and nothing is known of the instruments he built. Notes: 37 Frank E. Tunnison, Presto! From the Singing School to the May Festival! (Cincinnati: Beasley & Co., 1888), 19; and Henry A. and Mrs. Katie B. Ford, History of Cincinnati (Cleveland: L. A. Williams, 1887), 249. 38 Cincinnati City Directories for 1829 and for 1831 (Robinson & Fairbanks). In the City Directory for 1834 (Deming & Co.), Schooley is no longer listed. 39 Ford. op. cit., p. 249. Also Charles F. Goss, Cincinnati, the Queen City (Chicago; Clarke, 1912), II: 464. Also in Tunnison, op. cit., p. 19.
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