BRONZE CHURCH BELL. APPROXIMATELY 42" DIAMETER. ALL PARTS INCLUDED. NO WHEEL.

Initially, Jones & Hitchcock, as the new business was christened, set up business on the northwest corner of Adams and First Streets, where they erected a plant called the Troy Bell Foundry. In 1853, the new foundry cast the first complete chime in the U.S., nine bells in the key of D, for St. Stephen's Church in Philadelphia. The following year, the plant was relocated to the southwest corner of the same streets.

Faced with competition in the instrument trade from W. & L.E. Gurley and in the bell business from the Troy Bell Foundry, Andrew Meneely's Sons failed in the Panic of 1857. In the same year, Hitchcock withdrew from his partnership with Eber Jones, and the firm was renamed "Jones & Company." The Meneely firm resumed operations (under the name "Andrew Meneely's Sons, Agents") only after Andrew's widow Philena stepped in and took over the business. Soon, however, "Andrew Meneely's Sons" was back in business, and within a few years, the firm was again on a sound financial footing, but a further family feud forebode future trouble.

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