Sidney S. Morrill of Fulton, New York, received patent no. 137,468 for an improvement in the method of using springs to power watches and clocks, issued April 1, 1873.

[1]Vermont, Secretary of State, General index to vital records of Vermont, early to 1870 (Salt Lake City: Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1951).

[2]1880 US Census , Volney NY, p. 614a.

[3]ibid., Fulton NY, p. 233B.