Reared on a Connecticut farm, learned clock-making, said to have made the first brass clock in the United States.
Partnered with uncle William L. Gilbert.
Migrated Connecticut to Ohio (Athens, Dayton), Bond county Illinois, then Van Wert county, Ohio, removing his family to Van Wert in 1847.
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