William J. Davis

Active: Unknown - Present Type: Employee or Independent ContractorBuilder ID: 1547

Distinction:

Buffalo, New York, c.1875-1880; Chicago, Illinois, c.1892-

Database Manager on October 30th, 2004:
From the OHS PC Database, derived from A Guide to North American Organbuilders by David H. Fox (Organ Historical Society, revised ed. 1997). -

Active in Buffalo, New York, c. 1875-1880; representative of the Roosevelt firm of New York City, New York, in Chicago, Illinois, c. 1892; with successor Farrand & Votey of Detroit, Michigan, in Chicago, Illinois.

Sources:

  • Local directories of the period.
  • Musical and Sewing Machine Gazette, 21 Feb. 1880, p21.
  • Orpha Ochse, The History of the Organ in the United States (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1975), 281.
  • The Tracker, 9:2 (Spring, 1964), 10.
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Database Specs:

  • 12 Instruments
  • 4 Consoles
  • 0 Blowers

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