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

Born c. 1826 in Sweden; in eastern United States; in Blackhawk, Colorado, 1862; in Central City, Colorado, c. 1862, jeweler; partner with George Silsby in Anderson-Silsby firm of Denver, Colorado, c. 1875; died 1922.

Sources:

• The Bicentennial Tracker (Organ Historical Society, 1976), 117.


• James M. Bratton, "Hook Your Hastings to a Steer," Colorado Episcopalian.


• Barbara Owen.


• Tracker 8:1, 12.


• Elizabeth Towne Schmitt.

 

For further information see Anderson-Silby

 

From the OHS Database Builders Listing editor, August 14, 2016. -

Ortha Osche gives Anderson-s birth year as 1836.¹ Her only citation for the section on Anderson is an article in Music (predecessor to American Organist) by James Bratton.²

Source:

1. Orpha Ochse, The History of the Organ in the United States (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1975), 308-9.


2. James M. Bratton, "Pipe Organs before 1900,� Music 2, no. 5 (May 1968): 33, 45 (cited in Ochse).