John Henry Melly; Jacquard single weave Coverlet; Ohio, mid 19th C.
date: label: date made
content: 19th century
name: label: weaver
content: Meily, John Henry
notes: label: Description
content: Single-woven Jacquard coverlet with Double-roses pattern with flower basket border. "Lima Ohio" is woven into the two lower corners. The coverlet is red, white, blue and gold, and woven with wool and cotton yarns. The weaver is John Henry Meily. He was born December 15, 1817 in Lebanon, PA. He married December 3, 1839, Catharine Fisher (1820-1906) in Mansfield, Richland, OH. In 1844-45 he moved to Lima, OH. In addition to being a weaver he was also a practical iron molder and brickmaker and sold agricultural implements and real estate until he retired, according to Clarita S. Anderson. He died December 25, 1883, in Lima Allen, OH.
label: Description
content: Has trademark corners of John Henry Meily. This coverlet was given to the museum by the weavers great-granddaughter, Miss Marjorie McClintock in 1964. She provided this information: J.H. Meily was born in Mansfield Ohio in 1820. In 1844-45 he migrated by covered wagon to Lima, Ohio where he practiced his trade as a weaver, and became a prominent citizen of the town. He had nine children-his daughter Olivia was a member of the first graduating class of the "Western Female Seminary "now the "Western College" at Oxford, Ohio. She later married Calvin. S. Bruce who was U.S. Senator from Ohio during the Cleveland administration.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: Place Made
content: United States: Ohio, Lima
label: Place Made
content: United States: Ohio, Allen county
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content: Home and Community Life: Textiles
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content: Coverlets
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Margorie McClintock and Helen O. Irwin
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TE.T13481
label: catalog number
content: T13481.000
label: accession number
content: 254307
objectType: label: Object Name
content: coverlet
label: Object Name
content: coverlet, figured
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: jacquard (overall production method/technique)
label: Physical Description
content: single weave (overall production method/technique)
label: Physical Description
content: double rose (center pattern)
label: Physical Description
content: red (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: white (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: blue (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: gold (overall color)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 82 in x 75 1/2 in; 208.28 cm x 191.77 cm