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Start Over Collection Strother Family Grandfather Clock, 1800/1810 Date range 1805
West Virginia and Regional History Center

Strother Family Grandfather Clock, 1800/1810

8.3 Linear Feet Summary: 8 ft. 3 1/2 in. (1 unboxed artifact, 97 in. tall, 21 1/2 in. wide, 10 1/2 in. deep); (1 small storage box, 1 in.); (1 small box, 1 1/2 in.) 0.03 Gigabytes 17 files, formats include .jpg and .mov
One grandfather clock (97 in. tall) once owned by the Strother family of the eastern panhandle of West Virginia. According to family lore, this clock was built in 1803 by a Swiss clockmaker in Martinsburg (Virginia). David Hunter Strother (1816-1888) is a well known member of the family that owned this clock. He was an illustrator and writer for Harpers Magazine, whose pseudonym, "Porte Crayon", was a household word; he later served the Union cause, and was General Consul to Mexico within the Rutherford B. Hayes presidential administration. There are also 2 keys and 1 small hand crank. Also included in the collection are 16 .jpg photographs of the clock in the West Virginia & Regional History Center and the internal clock mechanism as well as 1 .mov video file of the clock chiming, taken during a 2014 visit to repair the clock.
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Strother Family Grandfather Clock, 1800/1810 8.3 Linear Feet Summary: 8 ft. 3 1/2 in. (1 unboxed artifact, 97 in. tall, 21 1/2 in. wide, 10 1/2 in. deep); (1 small storage box, 1 in.); (1 small box, 1 1/2 in.) 0.03 Gigabytes 17 files, formats include .jpg and .mov

One grandfather clock (97 in. tall) once owned by the Strother family of the eastern panhandle of West Virginia. According to family lore, this clock was built in 1803 by a Swiss clockmaker in Martinsburg (Virginia). David Hunter Strother (1816-1888) is a well known member of the family that owned this clock. He was an illustrator and writer for Harpers Magazine, whose pseudonym, "Porte Crayon", was a household word; he later served the Union cause, and was General Consul to Mexico within the Rutherford B. Hayes presidential administration. There are also 2 keys and 1 small hand crank. Also included in the collection are 16 .jpg photographs of the clock in the West Virginia & Regional History Center and the internal clock mechanism as well as 1 .mov video file of the clock chiming, taken during a 2014 visit to repair the clock.

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