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barrysloateDan- I was not aware that George Wright was on the Mills Commission...interesting.
Carlton- that is a famous clock, and while one of the men in the center does resemble Cartwright, it's a tough call because if you look at daguerreotypes from that period, everyone looked that way. Even Abner Doubleday could have had that style beard in 1839. So there is a leap of faith.
Regarding the Doubleday myth, when I was a kid in the late 1950's and early 1960's, I was taught that Doubleday invented baseball. I can assure you at that time I had never heard of Cartwright.