Item 1422 - Grandfather clock, Pooler Mansion, Skowhegan, 1940
- Item 1422 - Grandfather clock, Pooler Mansion, Skowhegan, 1940
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- Item 1422
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Image Info Aunt Julia's grandfather clock stands in the hallway of the home of Clyde and Margaret Chase Smith on Locust Avenue in Skowhegan.
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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.