2004-10-30/2019-11-20 - From the OHS PC Database, derived from A Guide to North American Organbuilders, by David H. Fox (Richmond, Va.: Organ Historical Society, 1991). — Active in Cincinnati, Ohio, listed 1859-1862 and 1871-1875. Sources: Orpha Ochse, The History of the Organ in the United States (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1975), 305. Barbara J. Owen and Thomas Cunningham, "New Revised Builders List" [continued], The Tracker 9:3 (1965), 14. Kenneth Wayne Hart, "Cincinnati Organ Builders of the Nineteenth Century", The Tracker 20:3 (1976), 12.
2019-11-21/2019-11-21 - From Organ Database Builders editor Stephen Hall, November 20, 2019. — Excerpt from Hart's article: A few other nineteenth century organ builders are listed in the Cincinnati Directories, but virtually nothing is known of these men or of their work. Since the term organ builder was used quite loosely in that era, they could have been builders of melodeons or cabinet organs, instead of pipe organs. Schwer's name is in the list described by Hart. Kenneth Wayne Hart, "Cincinnati Organ Builders of the Nineteenth Century", The Tracker 20:3 (1976), 12.
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