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

Born 1803; active in Guilford, New York, by 1819; partner with Chauncey D. Pease in Phelps & Pease of Cooperstown, New York, until 1828.

Sources:

• The Bicentennial Tracker (Richmond, Va., The Organ Historical Society, 1976), 77.
• Orpha Ochse, The History of the Organ in the United States (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1975), 169.
• Barbara J. Owen and Thomas Cunningham, "New Revised Builders List" [continued], The Tracker: 9:3 (Richmond, Va.: Organ Historical Society, 1965), 14.

A January 8, 1827 advertisement in *The Freeman's Journal* (a Cooperstown paper) notes the creation of the partnership of"Phelps and Pease" specializing in the building of pianos and organs. The partnership was short-lived; another local paper announced the partnership's dissolution only a year later. Source: "Dissolution" (Cooperstown, N.Y.) *The Watch-Tower*, 15:749 (Aug. 4, 1828) 2 [referenced and quoted in the *2006 OHS Organ Atlas*]