Mark Lane of Southington, Connecticut, and Elizabethtown, New Jersey.

Mark Lane was born on July 16, 1784, in Wolcott, Connecticut. His father, Joel (1751-1806), and his mother, Elizabeth Atkins, were married on May 22, 1776, and raised their family in the town of Wolcott, Connecticut. At 14, Mark trained as a cabinetmaker under the guidance of Isaiah Shepard (Shepherd). On February 12, 1807, Mark married Rhoda Shepard of Southington. She was Isaiah's brother. Mark began his clockmaking career as a cabinetmaker. He began to assemble clocks in Southington, Connecticut, in about 1823. He had a partner Solomon Stow who married Rhoda's sister Eunice. To our knowledge, a clock labeled Lane & Stow has not been found to date. In about 1826, Mark began to manufacture his own movements while working in Southington, Connecticut, until 1835, when he moved to Elizabethtown, New Jersey. He would have been 50 years old when he moved his family. In 1833, he was elected to replace the town clock with a new wooden one. This would have been a shelf clock and not a tower clock. He is recorded as working there until 1837, when he returned to Southington. He died there on June 27, 1832.