Hello, friends. I've been mostly lurking for some time now, but I'm still around! Once again, I need your help!

My Darling Daughter was given a list of names as part of an American Studies class project (Junior Year, age 17, honors student). She has to choose one US inventer or patent owner and write a paper on this person. The DD decided to choose Anthony Faas, the holder of the first US patent for the accordion!
Now she wails that she can't find anything about him, beyond the fact that he gained the patent by making a few changes to the original.

She has requested that I post a query here, in case anyone knows of sources of info. Can anyone here help her find some biographical info, and perhaps a little more on the history of the accordion in the US? She's supposedly a Google Whiz and doesn't seem to be finding what she needs that way.

Many thanks!