2004-10-30/2019-10-15 - From the OHS PC Database, derived from A Guide to North American Organbuilders, by David H. Fox (Richmond, Va.: Organ Historical Society, 1991). — Born November 14, 1808 in Nicholsschmiede, Silesia, Prussia; emigrated from Bremen April 14, 1855 to Galveston, Texas, arriving June 7 with wife and two daughters; relocated to Roundtop, Texas, 1860; organbuilder; died December 21, 1870. Sources: G. D. Frank, The Life & Work of Johann Traugott Wandke (Boston Organ Club, 1990). Orpha Ochse, The History of the Organ in the United States (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1975), 307.
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