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Connecticut became a clock 
center early in its history. 
This example from that 
State is dated 1806 
This page from an early American Cyclo¬ 
paedia illustrates the old-time theories of 
horology upon which the early clockmakers 
built their works 
(1740-1760); the Popes—Robert (1786) and 
Joseph (1788); Nathaniel Munroe (1777- 
1816) and David Munroe (1808) and Samuel 
Whiting (1808-1817) are the particular shin¬ 
ing lights in early clockmaking in Massa¬ 
chusetts. 
Of the Rhode Island clockmakers the most 
prominent were Seril Dodge (1788), Nehe- 
miah Dodge (1794-1824); John Cairns 
(1784); Caleb W’heaton (1784-1827) and 
Calvin Wheaton (1791). 
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Thomas Claggett of New¬ 
port, R. I., among the early 
American clockmakers, 
created this example 
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An unusual assembly of clocks is the Peterson Collection at Eau 
Claire, Wisconsin. It includes a great number of bracket ana 
open-work examples, together with some tall case or “grandfather 
clocks. The painted door panels and highly decorative faces no¬ 
ticeable on some of the items are characteristic of various phases 
and styles to be found in examples of American clockmaking 
