John M. Bonnet ZANESVILLE, OHIO is a private label in Seth Thomas Model 3.

John Mathias Bonnet was a clockmaker and jeweler in Zanesville Ohio. The 1850 United States Census shows that he was 37 years old, born in Germany in 1813, and that he had a wife, Barbara, and five children including John M. Bonnet, jr.  A January 3, 1883, Probate Record shows that John M. Bonnet died and left his jewelry business at 156 Main Street to his three sons John, jr., Albert, and Samuel. He would have died in late 1882 for this record to have been created so early in 1883. The 1907 Zanesville Ohio city directory shows John M. Bonnet, a jeweler, residing with his wife Helina, at 425 Locust Avenue. Newspaper reports document that John M. Bonnet’s wife became ill in the summer of 1908 and died that November.  John Bonnet also fell into poor health and was moved to be with family in Baltimore where he died on September 28, 1909.

The postcard photograph below shows Main Street in Zanesville Ohio, the street where John M. Bonnet’s Store was located.