Johnson & Son
| Geburts-und Todesjahr |
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| Geburtsjahr | 1816 | Nassau, NY |
| Todesjahr | 1901 | Westfield, MA |
| Vestigingsplaats |
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| ca. 1850 | Westfield, MA |
William Allen Johnson was born in 1816 in Nassau, New York. In 1819-1820 his family moved to Hawley, Massachusetts. In 1843 he helped build an organ at Hook, after which he specialized in organ building. He worked from Westfield, Massachusetts. After some setbacks, he founded the Johnson Organ Company in 1871. William A. Johnson died on January 20, 1901. His son and successor William H. Johnson died on April 20, 1922. This ended the company.
| Literatur |
- Organ builders / Eugene Thayer. - In: The Organist's Quarterly Journal and Review, no. 11, January 1877.
- Johnson & Sons' List of Organs, Concluded / Eugene Thayer. - In: The Organist's Quarterly Journal and Review, no. 12, April 1877.
- Johnson Organs 1844 - 1898 : Wm. A. Johnson - Johnson Organ Co. - Johnson & Son : A documentary issued in honor of the two hundredth anniversary of his birth 1816 - 2016 / Scot L. Huntington, Barbara owen, Stephen L. Pinel, Martin R. Walsh, - Cranbury, New Jersey : The Princeton Academy of the Arts, Culture and Society, 2015.
- A survey of the mid to late nineteenth-century mechanical action organs of Madison, Indiana : Submitted to the faculty of the Jacobs School of Music in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree, Doctor of Music / Jonathan Stanley. - Madison : Indiana University, 2021.
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