Lebbeus Bailey

Lebbeus Bailey (May 12, 1763 – December 6, 1827) was an American clockmaker, prominent in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.

After setting up his first business in Massachusetts, he came to prominence after moving to North Yarmouth in today's Maine, where he made clocks, sleigh bells and jewelry.

[3] After serving an apprenticeship with his older brothers Calvin and John II,[4][5] Bailey was listed as a clockmaker in his own right in Hanover between 1784 and 1791.

Rufus became a noted scholar, and founded the Augusta Female Seminary in Staunton, Virginia.

[8] He set up a foundry beside Yarmouth's harbor, in the town's Lower Falls area,[9] in which he produced tall clocks, shelf clocks, "sleigh bells, and in fact every kind of metal work of which his customers had need", noted Yarmouth's town historian William Hutchinson Rowe.