Note: Not extant. Not playable. (in this location)
2005-06-16 - Identified through information in <i>Descriptive Catalogue of Superior Church Organs Manufactured by Geo. H. Ryder & Co.</i>, published in Boston, January, 1896. Dates are not included in the publication; the one given here is conjectural. -Database Manager
2023-06-18 - The conjectural date of the organ may be later than it was actually built. Noting the success in fundraising and the dates of the building, the organ may have come nearer the opening of the new building. During the pastorate of James Hollingshead in 1868 and 1869, the original church was torn down and the congregation began the erection of a second, and larger church building on the same site, services being held in the Courthouse during the period of construction, which lasted until 1872. Noteworthy in the church's records is that the June 30, 1872 dedication produced subscriptions totaling $7,100.00 all in that one day; also that while the records are incomplete, it appears from available subscription papers that more than half the entire amount needed was given by one John F. Dravo, his subscription amounting to about $17,000...A fire from an overheated furnace put the second church building out of commission on the first Sunday in December of 1895, although it was subsequently repaired and remodeled at a cost of $2,431.64. -- Beaver County History website, https://www.bcpahistory.org/beavercounty/BeaverCountyTopical/Churches/ChurchesofBeaver/ChurchMethodist.html accessed 2023-06-17 -Paul R. Marchesano
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