2004-10-30/2019-04-29 - 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 John George Weickhardt February 6 1858 in Uberlingen, Bavaria, Germany; father of Eugene, Fred C. and Joseph G. Weickhardt; apprenticed with 'Xavier Moensch'* firm; arrived in United States April 16, 1891; petitioned for naturalization in Richmond, Indiana, December 15, 1892; with Philip Wirsching firm of Salem, Ohio, 1893; in Madison, Wisconsin, c. 1894; in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1895; partner with Nicholas Bach in Weickhardt & Bach of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1899; in Hann-Wangerin Co. of Milwaukee, Wisconsin; partner with Adolph A. Wangerin in Wangerin-Weickhardt Co. of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1903-1919; died February 15, 1919. Patent #863,768; August 20, 1907; universal windchest. *Presumably Xaver Mönch 1843-1907), who founded what is now Mönch Orgelbau in Ìberlingen, Germany in 1875. -Ed. Sources: The Diapason March 1919, 1. Local directories of the period. John Panning. The Tracker, 34:2 (Richmond, Va., Organ Historical Society, 1990), 23. Richard Weber.
2018-05-07/2019-02-11 - Note from the Organ Database Builders Listing editor Stephen Hall, April 25, 2017. -
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