Correspondence between Edwin B. Hedges and John Van Varick Elsworth, 1942-1960.

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Correspondence between Edwin B. Hedges and John Van Varick Elsworth, 1942-1960.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/667706583

Contains a collection of letters from Edwin B. Hedges to John Van Varick Elsworth, 1942-1960.

.5 linear ft. (1 box)

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SNAC Resource ID: 7960815

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Pierce, Samuel, 1819-1895.

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Aeolian-Skinner Organ Company.

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Hedges, Edwin, 1834-1903.

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Hedges, Edwin B., 1872-1967.

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Edwin B. Hedges was born on April 6, 1872, in Westfield, Massachusetts. He the son of Edwin Hedges, a well-known pipe-maker with Johnson & Son, and both men worked for the firm during the latter part of the nineteenth century. The two men separated from Johnson establishing an independent shop, and Edwin Jr. carried on the pipe-making business following his father's death. During the early twentieth century, Edwin merged the business with Samuel Pierce in 1919, and later worked for William S...

Dennison, William S., 1869-1946.

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Elsworth, Lois Hunt, 1906-1990.

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Johnson & Son (Firm)

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Elsworth, John Van Varick, 1905-1971

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John Van Varick Elsworth was born on November 24, 1905, in Watertown, New York. A graduate of Deerfield Academy in Deerfield, Massachusetts, and the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York, he was for many years a mechanical engineer for the New York Air Brake Co. in Watertown, and head of its test laboratory. He married Miss M. Lois Hunt of Deerfield, Massachusetts, on April 25, 1929, at Deerfield. He served as Vestryman, and Junior and Senior Warden at Trinity Episcopal Church in Watertown, and ...

Owen, Barbara, 1933-

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Barbara Owen was born on January 25, 1933, in Utica, New York, and grew up in New Haven, Connecticut. She entered Westminster Choir College, Princeton, New Jersey, graduating in 1955, and did her graduate work at Boston University, receiving a master's degree in 1962. Between 1961 and 1979, she worked for C.B. Fisk, Inc., organ builders in Gloucester, Massachusetts, as a voicer and tuner. The Organ in New England was her first significant book on the organ. In 1956, she became the founding presi...