He took this money, went to a neighboring town, bought an old wood clock factory, fitted it up for making the same clock that I had just got well introduced, and induced several of my workmen to go with him, some of whom he took in company with him.

As soon as I had the clock business well a going in England, he sent over two men to sell the same patterns.

He has kept this up ever since, and has made a great deal of money.
After the failure of the Jerome Manufacturing Company, as I have already stated, I went to Waterbury to assist the Benedict & Burnham Company.
After I had been there six or eight months, and had got the case-making well started, (my brother, Noble Jerome, had got the movements in the works the year before.) this same man I have been speaking about, came to me and made me a first-rate offer to go with him into a town a short distance from Waterbury, and make clocks there.

I accepted his offer, but should not have done so, had it not been for the depressed condition to which I had been brought by previous events.

I accordingly moved to the town where he had hired a factory.