Title	Tall Case Clock
Subject	Daily Life Immigration and Ethnic Heritage Clocks & watches
Place	Millersburg (Ohio) Holmes County (Ohio)
Description	This clock, which measures 7' tall (2.13 m), belonged to David Thompson Finney, who settled in Holmes County with his wife Mary in 1811. Finney, an attorney, later served two terms as a judge in Coshocton County and was a member of the first Holmes County Board of Commissioners in 1825. Finney was born in Wilmington, Delaware in 1773 and moved to Washington County, Pennsylvania in 1807. When Finney moved to Monroe Township in Holmes County, he brought this tall clock with him and placed it in his log house. This tall case clock is an example of an American style of case clock, which tended to be slightly smaller than those made in England to compensate for lower ceilings in American homes. English tall case clocks were popular between 1660 and 1730 and the trend spread to America in the latter half of the eighteenth century. Initially, tall case clocks had to be imported from Britain, but New York, Pennsylvania, and Virginia soon became centers of clock making. Tall case clocks were a symbol of wealth and prosperity and were owned by the elite of colonial society.
Date of Original	1807 circa
Source	Historical object(s) or artifact(s); 486.1
Submitting Institution	Holmes County Historical Society
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Type	StillImage
File Name	Om827_961300_001.tif
Image Height	1858
Image Width	440
File Size	212.557 KB
Searchable Date	1807; *
Format	picture objects

Tall Case Clock

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