Owner : Joseph E. Schneider

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Item Name	Tall Case Clock	Image1 Image2 Image3
Other Owner(s)	Schneider, Joseph
Category	Artifacts
Year	Early: 1800 - Late: 1840
Description	A tall case clock with clockworks made in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania by B. Eby and walnut case made at a later date, possibly c. 1840, in Waterloo County, Ontario. The clock face is signed on the back: B. Eby. See also: Joseph Schneider Will, 1843; Joseph E. Schneider Account Book, 1848; Samuel B. Schneider Will, 1913.
Maker\Attribution	B. Eby
Provenance	The clock was made in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania by B. Eby, one of a well-known family of clockmakers. It was brought to Waterloo County, Upper Canada when members of the Schneider family immigrated in 1807. The clockmaker apparently checked the works and signed the back of the clock face before it left Pennsylvania. Since the case appears to have been made at a later date of local walnut (c.1840), it is assumed that the works alone were brought from Pennsylvania and were used on an open shelf as a wag-on-the-wall. The clock is one of only a few personal possessions passed on through the family. Owned today by the seventh generation of Schneiders, it was returned to its familiar place in the Schneider Haus sitting room in 1981, as a long-term loan courtesy of the Barker family of Kitchener.
Collection	Joseph Schneider Haus Museum Contact : 466 Queen St. S. Kitchener 519-742-7752 www.region.waterloo.on.ca
Curatorial Comments	Personal items were seldom mentioned in wills or other family documents of the Pennsylvania Mennonites. This clock however is mentioned in Joseph Schneider’s Will of 1843. It is also mentioned in Joseph E. Schneider’s Account Book at the time of his death in 1880 and appears in Samuel B. Schneider’s Will registered in 1913, “the old family clock which I have from my father” being conveyed to his son, Elmer.
See other linked artifacts	Agreement between Executors Photocopy of a handwritten Agreement between Executors of the Late Joseph Schneider dated November 27, 1843. Will of Joseph Snider (Snyder) A photocopy of the Last Will and Testament of Joseph Snider of Waterloo including an Appraisement of Goods and Chattels. It is dated July 5, 1838 and was registered December 21, 1843.

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