Note from the OHS PC Database, derived from A Guide to North American Organbuilders, by David H. Fox (Richmond, Va., Organ Historical Society, 1991). —

Born May 27, 1823 in Schomberg, Württemberg, Germany; father of Fred Mayer; apprentice in Düsseldorf, Germany; in Strassburg, in Stuttgart, Germany.

In New York City, New York, 1853; in Maryville, California, 1856; in San Francisco, California, 1860; retired to Santa Clara, California, 1885; active in San Francisco, California, 1899; died October 15, 1909 in San Francisco, California.

Staff: Felix Schoenstein.

Sources:

• James Lewis.


• Orpha Ochse, The History of the Organ in the United States (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1975), 189.


• Louis J. Schoenstein, Memoirs of a San Francisco Organ Builder (San Francisco: Cue Publications, 1977), 672.


• Elizabeth Towne Schmitt.