George Stevens (1803–1894)

George Stevens (April 22, 1803 – August 15, 1894) was an American manufacturer and politician who served as the third Mayor of Cambridge, Massachusetts.^[1]

Stevens was born to Nathaniel and Rebecca (Cobb) Stevens^[2] in Norway, Maine, on April 22, 1803.^[1]

Stevens and his brother William worked as apprentices for pipe organ manufacturer William Goodrich.^[4] Stevens took over Goodrich's firm^[4] and for two years starting in 1833,^[5] Stevens was a proprietor with William Gayetty of Stevens & Gayetty in East Cambridge, Massachusetts,^[4] however for most of his career, Stevens worked on his own. Stevens built over eight hundred pipe organs, he supplied many small churches with one- and two-manual organs.^[5]

Notes

1. 1 2 3 4 Gilman, Arthur (1896), The Cambridge of Eighteen Hundred and Ninety-Six: A Picture of the City and its Industries Fifty Years After Its Incorporation, Verona, VA: McClure Printing Co., p. 63.  ASIN: B000NRCE04
2. 1 2 3 Owen, Barbara (1979), The Organ in New England: An Account of Its Use and manufacture to the End of the Nineteenth Century, Camp Hill, PA: Sunbury Press, p. 413.  ASIN: B000JC0C02
3. 1 2 Fall, Ralph Emmett (1982), Hidden village, Port Royal, Virginia, 1744-1981, Cambridge, MA: The Riverside Press, p. 258. 
4. 1 2 3 4 Bush, Douglas (2006), The Organ: An Encyclopedia, New York, NY: Rutledge, p. 586., ISBN 0-415-94174-1 
5. 1 2 Bush, Douglas (2006), The Organ: An Encyclopedia, New York, NY: Rutledge, p. 587., ISBN 0-415-94174-1