Hope-Jones Organ Co.

Active: Unknown - Unknown Type: BuilderBuilder ID: 2948

Distinction:

Elmira, New York 1907-1910.

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, 1991). Edited for the revised OHS Online Database website, 2017. -

Established by Robert Hope-Jones in Elmira, New York, 1907, with the main office in New York City, New York; the firm went bankrupt, April 1910; and was succeeded by the Hope-Jones Organ Department of the Wurlitzer firm of North Tonawanda, New York.

Investors or Corporate Officers: Samuel L. Clemens ('Mark Twain'); Charles J. Langdon;
Jervis Langdon; Robert Pier ElliotTheodore Vail; (__) Wright.

Staff;
Wilbur Antis; John Badger; Frederick Barker; Herbert Barnes; Earl J. Beach; Mayme Blass; John Brandt; A. M. Brooks; Carrie Calkins; Maud Canfield;
Henry J. Carruthers;
Joseph J. Carruthers, Sr.;
John J. Colton; Maud Craig; Richard Doucette; J. Drolesky;
(Augustus Ely?), May Ennis; Gus E. Erickson; H. Essen; J. Sloan Fassett; Gertrude Flesh; Henry Flester; F. H. Hathaway; Jack Hirst; William I. Hitchcock;
Lawton Holmes; David Hutton; Theodore J. Ilse; A. J. Jasper; A. Johnson; Carl Johnson; Albert L. Jones; Walter Jones;
T. J Lepkoske; H. Lewis; Eugene Licome;
John E. Linhares; Albert E. Lloyd; Edward E. Loomis; Thomas Lynette; Patrick McMahon;
David Marr; F. McNaughton; F. J. Mengler; F. Minchin; Lottie Monk; James Murphy; Margaret Murphy; Elizabeth Murray; Rae Newman; Augustus Noterman; Gus Noterman;
James H. Nuttall;
George Osborne; William Owen; George C. Parker; Mabel Parsons; Fanny Payne; E. W. Personius; Oswald Pfeil; (Jerzy?) Polukanis; Clarence Reynolds; Eleanor Robinson; Charles Russell; Fred W. Smith; Herman B. Stengel; A. Stetfield; Norman J. Thomas; Belle Thompson; Frank Walpert (Wolpert?); Charles Wills.

Sources:

  • The Diapason, December 1909. [page number not given in Fox's Guide.]

  • David H. Fox, Robert Hope-Jones, (Richmond, Va.: Organ Historical Society, 1992)

  • Preston J. Kaufman, Encyclopedia of the American Theatre Organ, Vol. 3, (Passadena, California: Showcase Publications, 1995).

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Database Specs:

  • 18 Instruments
  • 2 Consoles
  • 0 Blowers

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