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William Stevens

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2004-10-30/2019-11-17 - From the OHS PC Database, derived from A Guide to North American Organbuilders, by David H. Fox (Richmond, Va.: Organ Historical Society, 1991). — Born January 7, 1808 in Norway, Maine; brother of George Stevens; with William Goodrich in Boston, Massachusetts; with his brother in partnership of Stevens & Gayetty of East Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1830s-c. 1852; partner in Stevens & Co. of Boston, Massachusetts, c. 1852; with successor Stevens, Davis & Jewett, 1853-1854; partner with James Jewett in Stevens & Jewett of Boston, Massachusetts, 1854-1862; operated his own firm, 1862-1872; died 1896. Sources: Orpha Ochse, The History of the Organ in the United States (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1975), 131 Barbara Owen, The Organ in New England (Raleigh: Sunbury Press, 1979), 414. Organ Handbook 1986 (Richmond, Va.: Organ Historical Society), 23.

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