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I believe this organ was made by George Jardine & Son (from The Evening Post, Cleveland, January 8, 1858: "A new and splendid organ, from the manufactory of Geo. Jardine & Son, New York, is being erected in First Presbyterian Church."
Information received online from Andrew Henderson on 2025-12-01
An organ was installed in the rear of the newly-reconstructed church in January of 1858. According to a report in the Lafayette [Indiana] Weekly Courier (2/2/1858, p. 2, col. 3), "It contains three pannels (sic) and two octaves of Pedals, with thirty-four Registers. The case is of chase (sic) design, corresponding with the Church, and stands about eighteen feet wide, twenty-six high, and twelve deep." It was moved to the northwest corner of the church in 1877 and destroyed when the church was again devastated by fire, this time on the morning of Saturday, January 5, 1884. The Stone Church Society had a $5,000 insurance policy on the organ at the time of the fire.
Source: Arthur C. Ludlow, The Old Stone Church: The Story of a Hundred Years, 1820–1920 (Cleveland: privately printed, 1920), 247, 369–370.
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