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Show CLOCK CAME FROM LONDON I For at Leatt 2C0 Years Thla Old Timepiece Has Ticked tha Hours Ai. , 1 1'fldti - due of the nrtti leu which f rani' from tin- eslalf of the Into i;(ir;e riirki.ian of :;o Heaeon Htrect, wins.- iiiiinlllcint hf(pst to the city at liu.ston will keep the name of Park-man Park-man In leinenihrunce for netu'iattoris to come, Is the ild family clock, which hiiH Ixin tlckliiK the hours away for ul least 200 years. IiikUIo the cioe are the words, "Made hy John hlngle, Ixmdon." Kiifile whs clockmiiker In the lust pari of the 17th and the early part of the IMh century. Me was admitted to the "c lockiiiiikers' company" of London Lon-don in lO'.iO, and there are pictures of his cliickH of the date of 1700 In some of the Ht.'indiinl works upon this particular par-ticular branch of the mechanic's art. Hut there In little or no history of ' this Turkman household relic, bam- m : n irn. i ii i' iV!; ! : ' 1 ' K Parkman Family Clock. il I'arkmun, the Rrnndfather of the .ate (ieorge I'arkiniin. was a Iioston nienh.int. IIvIiir at 5 lUiwdoln Flreet, who died In IfrL't, and he left houses uiid lands, slocks and bonds anl in les of hand of n su!!U !ent amount to give each one of hia t ight children what must have beea n-gariieil at th.it time as a fori line. Among these eilit children was Mrs. Kohert (J. Shaw, who was tho grandmother of Col. H. O. Shaw of the tilth Massachusetts regiment, of Cicorge William Curt in, the author and orator, and the ancestor of many oih rr descendants who have married and Intermarried with Home of Poslon'a most prominent families. There were also ltev. FrtinclB Parkman, who was (he father of the historian of the same name, and Dr. Georg3 Parkman. George Parkman, from whose estate comes Huston's $3,000,000 fund for the benefit of the people, was the son of Dr. George Parkman. Neither the grandfather. Samuel Parkman, nor the father, Dr. George Parkman, In their respective wills, left any public bequests. The will of Dr. George Parkman, Indeed, especially provided dgalnRt the submission of any Inventory to the probate court, and everything, with as little publicity as the requirements of the law permitted, permit-ted, was devised to the widow and the two children. Therefore the amount I of the wealth of Dr. Parkman at the time of his death In 1849 was never publicly known. And It Is this con-, con-, cealed fortune of 60 years ago which Is now unloaded Into the lap of ths city. |