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How The Grandfather Clock Got Its Name by: Marcelle Snyder Over 100 years ago in Piercebridge, North Yorkshire, England, a quaint country lodge known as the George Hotel was managed by two bachelor brothers named Jenkins, also from England. For many years, a floor clock (now known as a grandfather clock) stood in the lobby. This old clock was different in that it had always kept very good time. In those days, clocks were not generally noted for their accuracy. One day one of the brothers died, and suddenly the old clock started losing time. At first it lost 15 minutes a day, and even though several clocksmiths tried to fix it, by the time they had given up trying to repair the afflicted timepiece, it was losing more than an hour each day. The fact that the clock was now losing time became the talk of the town. Therefore, when the surviving brother died at the age of ninety, some said it was no surprise that the old clock, though fully wound, stopped completely -- forever. The new manager of the hotel never tried to have it fixed. He just left it standing in a sunlit corner of the lobby, its hands resting in the position they had assumed the moment the last Jenkins brother died. About '1875
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