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). - With Wicks Pipe Organ Co.of Highland, Illinois, c. 1915. Patents: Patent #1,586,283; May 25, 1926; organ. Patent #1,771,841; July 29, 1930; electric combination action. Source: David L. Junchen, Encyclopedia of the American Theatre Organ, Vol. 2 (Pasadena: Showcase Publications, 1989), 719.
2016-11-30/2019-04-29 - From OHS Database Builders Listing editors, Charles Eberline and Stephen Hall, November 19, 2017. - Editor's Notes: Eugene Buchheim oversaw the installation of Wicks Opus 611 at St. Francis Solanus R.C. Church, 1721 College Avenue, Quincy, Illinois (OHS Pipe Organ Database ID 51902). - "Programs of Sweet Music,†"St. Francis New Organ,†and "To Dedicate New St. Francis Organ,†Quincy Daily Journal, December 31, 1915, 3, 4, 7, accessed November 16, 2017, http://quincylibrary.org/newspaper-archive/.li> He may have been related to John Buchheim who worked at Wicks during the same period.
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