CHAPTER I .-- MY EARLY HISTORY .-- Birthplace; nail making; death of my.
Father; leaving home; work on a farm; hard times; the great eclipse; bound out as a carpenter; carry tools thirty miles; work on clock dials; what I heard at a training; trip to New Jersey in 1812; first visit to New York; what I saw there; cross the North River in a scow; case making in New Jersey; hard fare; return home; first appearance in New Haven; at home again; a great traveller; 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 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; buy mahogany 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; rapid 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 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; seized by custom house officers; a good joke; incidents; the Terry family.
CHAPTER VI .-- THE CAREER OF A FAST YOUNG MAN .-- Incidents; Frank Merrills; a smart young man; I sell him clocks; his bogus operations; a sad history; great losses; human nature; my experience; incident of my boyhood; Samuel J.Mills, the Missionary; anecdotes.
CHAPTER VII .-- REMOVAL TO NEW HAVEN--FIRE--TROUBLE .-- Make cages at New Haven; factories at Bristol destroyed by fire; great loss; sickness; heavy trouble; human nature; move whole 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 to-day; more human nature; how the Brass clock is made; cost of a clock; the facilities of the Jerome Manufacturing Company; a joint stock company; how it was managed; interesting statements; its failure.
CHAPTER IX .-- MEN NOW IN THE BUSINESS .-- The New Haven Clock Co.: Hon.
Jas.

E.English, H.M.Welch, John Woodruff, Hiram Camp, Philip Pond, Charles L.Griswold, L.F.Root.

Benedict & Burnham Company of Waterbury: Arad W.Welton.Seth Thomas & Co.Wm.

L.Gilbert.

E.N.Welch.