2004-10-30/2019-10-15 - Note from the OHS PC Database, derived from A Guide to North American Organbuilders, by David H. Fox (Richmond, Va., Organ Historical Society, 1991). Edited for the revised OHS Online Database website, 2017. - Born March 22, 1873 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin; father of Ralph Wangerin; partner with Herman G. Semman in Semman & Wangerin, church furniture; partner with Joseph Hann in Hann-Wangerin firm of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, after 1901; with successor Hann-Wangerin-Weickhardt Co.firm with George Weickhardt; established Wangerin Organ Co. of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1924; retired 1942; died September 2, 1956 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Sources: The Diapason, February 1924, 2. The Diapason, August 1942, 17. One or more local directories of the place and period. The Tracker, 34:2 (Richmond, Va.: Organ Historical Society, 1990), 23.
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