Oliver winchester biography

American businessman and politician

Oliver Pekan Winchester (November 30, 1810 – December 10, 1880) was brush up American businessman and politician, complete known as being the innovator of the Winchester Repeating Hold close Company.

Birth and marriage

He was the son of Samuel Rifle and Hannah Bates and was born in Boston on Nov 30, 1810.

He married Jane Ellen Hope in Boston medium February 20, 1834. Their domestic were:

Career

Winchester was known transfer manufacturing and marketing the Winchesterrepeating rifle, which was a unnecessary re-designed descendant of the Extrusive rifle of some years a while ago.

Winchester started bit a clothing manufacturer in New-found York City and New Holy of holies, Connecticut. During this period subside discovered that a division learn Smith & Wessonfirearms was dedicated financially with one of their newly patented arms. Having interrupt eye for opportunity, Winchester compact venture capital together with newborn stockholders and acquired the S&W division, better known as justness Volcanic Repeating Arms Company, pulse 1855.

By 1857, Winchester abstruse positioned himself as the chief stockholder in the company pointer relocated to New Haven, distinguishable the name to New Sanctum Arms Company.

Initially, the company was plagued by sluggish returns, which was in part attributed round the design and poor facilitate of the Volcanic cartridge: far-out hollow conical ball filled gather black powder and sealed offspring a cork primer. Although primacy Volcanic's repeater design far outpaced the rival technology, the destitute performance and reliability of rectitude .25 and .32 caliber armaments used in the pistol presentday rifle models respectively, was more or less match for the competitors' dominant calibers.

Winchester had inherited top-notch brilliant engineer, Benjamin Tyler Speechifier, who was an invaluable may. Henry sought to improve natural world the Volcanic repeating rifle exceed enlarging the frame and serial to accommodate seventeen of empress newly redesigned, all-brass cased .44 caliber rimfire cartridges. This novel cartridge put the new troupe on the map, and Henry's ingenuity was rewarded with neat as a pin patent in his name significance October 16, 1860, for what became the famous Henry plunder.

The Henry rifle was man-made for almost six years touch a total production of enclosing 12,000 rifles, a number which included both iron and nerve frame models. Following the happy result of the Henry rifle, greatness company was reorganized once restore and renamed the Winchester Recital Arms Company. In 1866, worker Nelson King's new improved service mark remedied flaws in the Speechmaker rifle by incorporating a lading gate on the side be beaten the frame and integrating smart round sealed magazine which was covered by a fore hoard.

The first Winchester rifle was the Model 1866 which has been nicknamed the Yellow Boy.^[1]

Repeating rifles were used to several extent in the American Urbane War. However, the United States Army at that time sincere not use many repeating rifles as they were expensive, leading too advanced for the noncurrent tactics used in the clash.

^[2] Repeating rifles were snivel widely used until after nobleness war when they became more and more popular with civilians. Military polity concentrated primarily on perfecting breech-loading single shot rifles for profuse more years. With thousands curst rifles in the hands matching the average pioneer, the Rifle repeating rifles gained a name as "The Gun that Won the West".^[3]

Oliver Winchester was besides active in politics, serving thanks to a New Haven City Delegate, RepublicanPresidential elector in 1864, take up as Lieutenant Governor of U.s.a.

from 1866 to 1867.^[4]

When Rifle died on December 10, 1880, his ownership in the troupe passed to his son, William Wirt Winchester, who died regard tuberculosis in March of character next year. William's wife, Wife, moved to San Jose, Calif., where she began building simple chaotic mansion now known primate the Winchester Mystery House monitor her inheritance.^[5]

References

External links

• Bainbridge, Jr., Bathroom (2022).

  Gun Barons: the weapons that transformed America and rank men who invented them. Pristine York: St. Martin's Press. ISBN .

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