Name/Title
Steeple Clock, c.1870s | Wells-Shober Cottage | Campobello, New BrunswickDescription
Classification: Furniture
Circa: 1870
Accession Number: 2237
Description:
Steeple Clock, c.1870s. Waterbury Clock Company, Waterbury, Connecticut. Clock is originally from the Wells-Shober Cottage, Campobello, New Brunswick. From the Emery family Elm Cottage, Elm Street, Eastport, Maine. Her father had once purchased the Wells-Shober Cottage including contents. Joyce tells of her father and brother bringing a truckload of furniture from the Cottage over to Eastport.
Gift of Joyce Emery Kinney, Eastport, Maine.
From: https://www.rooseveltcampobello.org/daily-programs-and-tours
Built in the late 19th century for Samuel Wells, a Boston-area lawyer and president of the Campobello Company. This cottage was acquired in 1912 by the Shober family of Philadelphia.