His son Eli Terry Jr. was the most famous, as the village of Terryville in Plymouth, Connecticut was named after him; he purchased the lock making equipment that would eventually be used to form Eagle Lock Company, which for a long period of time was Terryville's biggest employeer.
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According to Diana Muir in Reflections in Bullough's Pond, within a few years, several hundred men worked in two dozen factories in the Naugatuck Valley and Bristol produced virtually identical Terry-style thirty-hour wooden clocks.
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According to historian Diana Muir writing in Reflections in Bullough's Pond, at that time a skilled craftsman could produce six to ten clocks per year.
Terry Gilliam | Terry Pratchett | Terry Riley | Terry Bradshaw | Terry Jones | Terry Wogan | Eli Lilly | Eli Wallach | Ellen Terry | Eli Lilly and Company | Eli Manning | Terry Richardson | Terry Reid | John Terry | Eli Roth | Terry Scott Taylor | Terry Eagleton | Eli Stone | Terry Woods | Terry Tempest Williams | Terry Pluto | Terry Manning | Terry Francona | Terry Callier | Terry | Terry Venables | Terry-Thomas | Terry Melcher | Terry Sweeney | Terry Paine |
Eli Terry, Jr. (son of Eli Terry) joined up with another man who was interested in the cabinet and lock industry, and they opened Eagle Lock Company.