born April 13, 1772, East Windsor, Conn.
died Feb. 26, 1852, Plymouth, Conn., U.S.
U.S. clockmaker.
He made a specialty of one-day wooden shelf clocks, especially his "perfected wood clock" known as the Terry clock (1814). Using interchangeable parts made by mechanized techniques, production at his Plymouth factory rose to as high as 10,000–12,000 Terry clocks per year.