2004-10-30/2019-10-03 - From the OHS PC Database, derived from A Guide to North American Organbuilders by David H. Fox (Organ Historical Society, 1991). — Born 1882 in Armenia; uncle of Sam Hovsepian; attended Roberts College of Constantinople, Turkey and Watt Electrical College of Edinburgh, Scotland; apprentice with Ingram Organ Co. {Ingram & Hope-Jones?} of Hereford, England; with Henry Willis & Sons firm of England. Immigrated to U.S., 1910; with Robert Hope-Jones department of the Wurlitzer firm of North Tonawanda, New York; with Henry Pilcher's Sons firm of Louisville, Kentucky; with Ernest M. Skinner firm of Boston, Massachusetts, 1912, Southern installer and sales; died 1959 in Oakland, Florida. Source: Nelson Barden.
2016-04-13/2019-10-03 - From the OHS Database Builders editor Stephen Hall, April 8, 2016 — His 1931 business card gives his location as Coral Gables, Florida. Source: James H. Cook, "The Organs of First Methodist Church of Birmingham, Alabama" Birmingham Southern College website, Accessed April 13, 2016, http://faculty.bsc.edu/jhcook/FUMCHistory/FUMC07B.html. .
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