After I had showed him all the different processes it required to complete a clock, he expressed himself in the strongest terms--he told me he had traveled a great deal in Europe, and had taken a great interest in all kinds of manufactures, but had never seen anything equal to this, and did not believe that there was anything made in the known world that made as much show, and at the same time was as cheap and useful as the brass clock which I was then manufacturing.
* * * * * The man above all others in his day for the wood clock was Eli Terry.

He was born in East Windsor, Conn., in April, 1772, and made a few old fashioned hang-up clocks in his native place before he was twenty-one years of age.

He was a young man of great ingenuity and good native talent.

He moved to the town of Plymouth, Litchfield county, in 1793, and commenced making a few of the same kind, working alone for several years.

About the year 1800, he might have had a boy or one or two young men to help him.