[...]...WITH THE YANKEE CLOCK BUSINESS New Haven: 1860 PREFACE The manufacture of Clocks has become one of the most important branches of American industry Its productions are of immense value and form an important article of export to foreign countries It has grown from almost nothing to its present dimensions within the last thirty years, and is confined to one of the smallest States in the Union Sixty... business to New Haven; John Woodruff; great competition; clocks in New York; swindlers; law-suit; ill-feeling of other clock makers CHAPTER VIII. THE METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE JEROME MANUFACTURING COMPANY.— Benefit of manufacturing by system; a clock case for eight cents; a clock for seventy-five cents; thirty years ago and today; more human nature; how the Brass clock is made; cost of a clock; the. .. produce the new clock; its success CHAPTER V.—BRASS CLOCKS— CLOCKS IN ENGLAND. The new clock a favorite; I carry on the business alone; good times; profits in 1841; wood clock makers half crazy; competition; prices reduced; can Yankee clocks be introduced into England; I send out a cargo; ridiculed by other clock makers; prejudice of English people against American manufacturers; how they were introduced;... machinery; clocks for pork; men in the business previous to 1810; [ ] a new invention; the Pillar Scroll Top Case; peddling clocks on horseback; the Bronze Looking Glass Clock CHAPTER III.—PERSONAL HISTORY CONTINUED.—1816 to 1825; work with Mr Terry; commence business; work alone; large sale to a Southerner; a heap of money; peddle clocks in Wethersfield; walk twenty-five miles in the snow; increase business; ... —SOLDIER. CLOCK MAKING I was born in the town of Canaan, Litchfield County, in the State of Connecticut, on the 10th day of June, 1793 My parents were poor but respectable and industrious My father was a blacksmith and wrought-nail maker by trade, and the father of six children— four sons and two daughters I was the fourth child In January, 1797, he moved from Canaan to the town of Plymouth, in the same... experiences in the last war; go to New London to fight the British in 1813; incidents; soldiering at New Haven in 1814; married; hard times again; cottton [sic.] cloth $1 per yard; the cold summer of 1816; a hard job; work at clocks CHAPTER II.—EARLY HISTORY OF YANKEE CLOCK MAKING.—Mr Eli Terry the father of wood clocks in Connecticut; clocks in 1800; wheels made with saw and jack-knife; first clocks by... in the plank; saw veneers with a hand saw; trade cases for movements; move to Bristol; bad luck; lose large sum of money; first cases by machinery in Bristol; make clocks in Mass.; good luck; death of my little daughter; form a company; invent Bronze Looking Glass Clock CHAPTER IV.—PROGRESS OF CLOCK MAKING.—Revival of business; Bronze Looking Glass Clock favorite; clocks at the South; $115 for a clock; ... increase of the business; new church at Bristol—Rev David L Parmelee; hard times of 1837; panic in business; no more clocks will be made; wooden clocks and wooden nutmegs; opposition to Yankee pedlars in the South; make clocks in Virginia and South Carolina; my trip to the South; discouragements; "I won't give up;" invent one day Brass clock; better times ahead; go further South; return home; produce the. .. every part of the civilized globe, the result of early ambition and untiring perseverance It was in fact the "pride of my life." Timekeepers have been known for centuries in the old world; but I will not dwell on that It is enough for the American people to know that their country supplies the whole world with its most useful time-keepers, (as well as many other productions,) and that no other country... devoted to the American clock business, and the most important changes in it have taken place within my remembrance and actual experience Its whole history is familiar to me, and I cannot write my life without having much to say about "Yankee clocks." Neither can there be a history of that business written without alluding to myself A few weeks since I entered my sixty-seventh year, and reviewing the past, . h0" alt="" The Project Gutenberg eBook, History of the American Clock Business for the Past Sixty Years, and Life of Chauncey Jerome, by Chauncey Jerome This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere. under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: History of the American Clock Business for the Past Sixty Years, and Life of Chauncey. iso-8859-1 ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN CLOCK BUSINESS FOR THE PAST SIXTY YEARS, AND LIFE OF CHAUNCEY JEROME*** E-text prepared by Robert Shimmin and the Project Gutenberg