biography
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| male
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| lived:
| (1785–1859)
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| biography:
| Clock maker, born in Wolcott, Connecticut, USA. He started out as a woodworker invited to manufacture clocks in partnership with Eli Terry and Silas Hoadley (1807–1812). He began his own factory in 1812, then bought the rights to Terry's popular shelf clock, developing a highly successful business in Plymouth, CT (an area of which was later renamed Thomaston in his honour). His other enterprises included a cotton mill, and a brass-rolling and wire-making factory. |
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