Grandfathers' Clocks: Their Making and Their Makers in Lancaster County * By D. F. MAGEE, ESQ. 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

records, unless otherwise noted. �CLOCK AND WATCH MAKERS OF LANCASTER COUNTY, 1750-1850 NAME LOCATION DATES TRADE SOURCE A Amont, Henry Strasburg 1824-1825 Watch Lanco. Tax Register Amont, Jacob Strasburg 1825 Watch Lanco. Tax Register Andrews, Joseph W. Donegal 1838 Clock Lanco. Tax Register Atkinson

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

County, Pennsylvania, is vast. The rifle- makers, the silversmiths, the cabinetmakers, the artists, the inventors, the patriots—two hundred years ago these men worked to make it axio- matic that "without incurring the censure of Partiality, Lancaster stands foremost of all the other Inland Towns on the