GRANDFATHERS' CLOCKS: THEIR MAKING AND THEIR MAKERS IN LANCASTER COUNTY, Whilst Lancaster county is not the first or only home of the so-called "Grandfathers' Clock," yet the extent and the excellence of the clock industry in this type of clocks entitle our county to claim special distinction as

: Penna. German Society, 1934, Vol. 1, pp. 73, 74, 77. 7. Ibid., p. 74 8. Wood, Stacy B.C., Jr. & Kramer, Stephen E., III, Clockmakers of Lancaster County and Their Clocks 1750-1850, New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Co., 1977, pp. 11, 13.. 9. "Marriage Records," Lancaster Moravian Church, Bk. I, Marriage

The Hoff Family: Master Clock- makers of Lancaster Borough by Stacy B. C. Wood, Jr. On August 24, 1765, Johann Georg Hoff, his wife and their two- year-old daughter arrived in Philadelphia after a voyage across the At- lantic on the ship "Polly."1 He was not the first Hoff to arrive in Phila

the weight and pendulum clock in a tall case is still considered the best designed mechanical device for accurate timekeeping. The first tall clock faces were square and made of brass. Later, painted iron dials were imported from England. By 1730 clockmakers began building almanacs into their clocks

1753, the clock was again sold: this time for 32. See D. F. Magee, "Grandfather Clocks: Their Making and Their Makers in Lancaster County" in the Lancaster County Historical Society Papers Vol. XLIII No. 5 (1939). This is the only detailed such study to date. 11 Lancaster County Historical Society