Mr.Roberts had to give up this kind of business; he could not compete with machinery.

John Rich of Bristol was in the business; also Levi Lewis, but gave it up in a few years.

An Ives family in Bristol were quite conspicuous as clock-makers.

They were good mechanics.

One of them, Joseph Ives, has done a great deal towards improving the eight day brass clock, which I shall speak about hereafter.
Chauncey Boardman, of Bristol, Riley Whiting, of Winsted, and Asa Hopkins, of Northfield, were all engaged in the manufacture of the old fashioned hang-up clock.