HOUSE AND GARDEN 
November, 
1913 
327 
1844 the business became so large that 
Jerome moved it to New Haven, where he 
carried it on successfully for years. That 
he died poor and discouraged in old age 
was due to his too great faith in human 
nature. The record of his life, written by 
himself, is pathetic. 
The style of clock in which Jerome took 
the greatest pride was what he called the 
“bronze looking-glass clock,” made in the 
days when his fortune was rising towards 
flood. It was six inches taller than the 
Terry clock, could be made for one dollar 
less, and sold for two dollars more. A 
regular Yankee bargain, you see, but a 
stately clock all the same, and, though with 
wood works, a good timekeeper. One is 
shown in the left-hand corner of page 303. 
This clock has a clock paper, with the firm 
name of Jerome & Darrow, and was made 
shortly after 1824, when Jerome took into 
partnership his brother Nobles and Elijah 
Darrow. 
The making of dials was carried on by 
men who did nothing else, and who sup¬ 
plied them to the clock factories which did 
not employ dial makers of their own. Be¬ 
sides the moon phases, which are a fea¬ 
ture of some clocks, there were often to be 
found Masonic emblems, arranged more 
or less artistically. A long case clock in a 
case of whitewood, stained, is given in the 
right-hand photograph at the top of page 
302. In addition to this feature, the clock 
is unusual in having a separate circle for 
the minute hand. This clock is still in go¬ 
ing order and a good timekeeper; espe¬ 
cially noteworthy is the beauty of the pew¬ 
ter hands. 
The New Hampshire makers are less 
well known than they should be, when the 
character of their work is taken into ac¬ 
count. I am glad to be able to show on 
page 303 a clock by Abel Hutchins, of 
Concord, New Hampshire, made about 
1808. It is a noble instrument, still in go¬ 
ing order and owned by a grandson of the 
maker. Abel Hutchins and his brother 
Levi learned their trade from Simon Wil¬ 
lard, and in 1788 Abel and Levi Hutchins 
went into partnership and opened a shop 
in Concord, New Hampshire, and were in 
business together twenty-one years. Both 
of these men lived to be more than ninety 
years old. In Nashua, N. H., there is a 
collector of clocks who began to gather 
them thirty years ago. He has given many 
away, but still has twenty, and he says: 
“My twenty or more clocks are all in go¬ 
ing order, or were a year ago, when we 
moved to a small house, and I have no 
room to set them up. Yet we have fifteeen 
running, two, three and four in a room.” 
This collector has given me the name of 
Abijah Gould, Jr., of Hollis, N. H., as a 
clock-maker who worked there from 1800- 
1821, when he moved to Rochester, N. Y. 
He made wood works clocks with metal 
bushings, and generally brass wheels. 
David Dutton, of Mount Vernon, N. H., 
was another maker of wood clocks, thirty- 
hour, and in veneered mahogany cases. 
Harvey Ball of Nashua, N. H., was an- 
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