This entry represents the installation of a new organ. Identified through online information from Nathan Bienz [December 1, 2025] and Andrew Henderson, who identified the builder [December 29, 2025].

From The Evansville Journal (August 14, 1904): “The largest pipe organ in the middle west outside of Chicago will be dedicated with special services at St. John’s Evangelical Church on Lower Second Street. The organ has just been installed and will be used for the first time. The new one cost the sum of $6,500, and has 1,895 pipes, with 34 registers and 80 different movements. It has a compass of 61 notes. The organ is a 3-manual organ — that is, it has 3 sets of keys, something which no other pipe organ in Evansville has.”

The builder’s name is never expressly given in the contemporary newspaper reports, however, The Evansville Journal of June 12, 1904, reported that the organ was ready to ship from the factory at Moline, IL, indicating that it must have been built by Marshall-Bennett firm which was still in that location.