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Silas Hoadley

American clockmaker
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  • Off-centre pillar-and-scroll wooden clock by Seth Thomas, c. 1818, under license from Eli Terry; in the American Clock and Watch Museum, Bristol, Connecticut.
    Seth Thomas

    …Eli Terry hired him and Silas Hoadley to join in a wholesale clock-making enterprise. Terry, Thomas, and Hoadley, after about a year of setting up the required machinery, produced some 4,000 clocks in the following two years. The weight-driven wooden clocks were movements only, made under contract to Edward and…

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    …Eli Terry hired him and Silas Hoadley to join in a wholesale clock-making enterprise. Terry, Thomas, and Hoadley, after about a year of setting up the required machinery, produced some 4,000 clocks in the following two years. The weight-driven wooden clocks were movements only, made under contract to Edward and…

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