Possible Joseph Gorgas Tall Case Clock Located by Stacy B. C. Wood, Jr. Certified Clockmaker I was recently engaged by a local moving firm to prepare a "rare Grandfather's clock" for shipment to the West Coast. While making arrangements, I inquired as to the maker and was informed it was Joseph

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

Continent of America. "2 Not the least of the "mechanics' arts," and certainly one of the foremost for which the County is known nationally today, was that of the 18th and 19th Century Lancaster County clockmaker. The earli- est of these artisians to appear in the Lancaster Borough records was Rudy Stoner