Colt, Samuel
inventor, was born July 19, 1814, in Hartford, Conn. While a sailor, Mr. Colt had whittled out a wooden model of a pistol, which should fire several shots before reloading, and in 1835 obtained a patent for this weapon, both in America and in England and France. A new plant was created in 1852 upon a tract of 250 acres in Hartford, and in 1855 the Colt Patent Fire Arms company was organized to carry on the business.
He died Jan. 10, 1862, in Hartford, Conn.