Grandfather clock, Pooler Mansion, Skowhegan, 1940

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Grandfather clock, Pooler Mansion, Skowhegan, 1940

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Description

Aunt Julia's grandfather clock stands in the hallway of the home of Clyde and Margaret Chase Smith on Locust Avenue in Skowhegan.

The clock belonged to Julia Coburn, sister of Abner Coburn, twenty-seventh governor of Maine. Clyde Smith bought the clock with the house and Margaret Chase Smith moved it to her new house when she left the home, known as the Pooler mansion. It was built for Mary Ella Coburn Pooler and her husband Manley Pooler.

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  • Title: Grandfather clock, Pooler Mansion, Skowhegan, 1940
  • Creator: G. Herbert Whitney
  • Creation Date: 1940-07-17
  • Subject Date: 1940-07-17
  • Location: Skowhegan, Somerset County, ME
  • Media: Photographic print
  • Dimensions: 12 cm x 17 cm
  • Local Code: Coll. 553, No. 2
  • Collection: George Herbert Whitney interesting interviews : photographs
  • Object Type: Image

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