In correspondence to and about his namesake, Samuel Colt referred to him as his "nephew" in quotes. "Unhappy with high cost of hand made guns, and with the knowledge that some parts of guns were currently being made by machine, Colt wanted all the parts on every Colt gun to be interchangeable and made by machine. Samuel Colt appears briefly in Rose, Joel (2007). He established a ten-hour day for employees, installed washing stations in the factory, mandated a one-hour lunch break, and built the Charter Oak Hall, a club where employees could enjoy games, newspapers, and discussion rooms. Colt and Captain Walker drew up a new improved model from which Whitney produced the first thousand-piece order. During 1842 he used one of the devices to destroy a moving vessel to the satisfaction of the United States Navy and President John Tyler. [37], A major cause of Colt's success was vigorous protection of his patent rights. We collect and match historical records that Ancestry users have contributed to their family trees to create each person's profile. Samuel Colt (/kolt/; July 19, 1814 January 10, 1862) was an American inventor, industrialist, and businessman who established Colt's Patent Fire-Arms Manufacturing Company (now Colt's Manufacturing Company) and made the mass production of revolvers commercially viable. Samuel married Lizzie M Colt (born Finch) circa 1880, at age 24. [65][66] The only other person mentioned in Colt's will was Samuel Caldwell Colt, the son of his brother, John C. Connect to the World Family Tree to find out, July 19 1814 - Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, USA, Jan 12 1862 - Hartford, Hartford Co., Connecticut, Christopher Colt, Sarah Colt (born Caldwell). Samuel Caldwell Colt Birth Dec 1841 - Pennsylvania Death 16 Jul 1915 - Farmington, Hartford, Connecticut, United States Mother Caroline Augusta Green Father John Caldwell Colt Quick access Family tree 595 125 New search Samuel Caldwell Colt family tree Family tree Explore more family trees Parents John Caldwell Colt 1810 - 1842 [10] Despite the reluctance of English officials to issue a patent to Colt, no fault could be found with the gun and he was issued his first patent (number 6909). Father of Caldwell Hart Colt; Elizabeth Jarvis Colt and Samuel Caldwell Colt In August 1835, Colt left for England and France to secure his foreign patent. In 1829, Colt began working in his father's textile plant in Ware, Massachusetts, where he had access to tools, materials, and the factory workers' expertise. While at sea, he carved a prototype six-barrel cylinder, hammer, and locking pin out of wood. [75], In 2006, Samuel Colt was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame.[76]. Colt hired Eli Whitney Blake, who was established in the arms business, to make his guns. In 1832, at the age of 18, Colt applied for a patent on his revolver and declared that he would "be back soon with a model". [70] Colt's firearms did not always fare well in standardized military tests; he preferred written testimonials from individual soldiers who used his weapons and these were what he most relied on to secure government contracts. 4.23 Samuel Colt. [35] He hired Bavarian engraver Gustave Young for fine hand engraving on his more "custom" pieces. His father would not finance any more development, so Samuel needed to find a way to pay for the development of his ideas. Source: Connecticut Town Guide, CT State Library. He lived in 1870, at address, Pennsylvania. This gave him an idea for a pistol that could fire several rounds in rapid succession, instead of the standard single shot. His professional responsibilities were turned over to his brother-in-law, Richard Jarvis. [67] After John's death, Samuel Colt cared financially for the child, named Samuel Caldwell Colt, with a large allowance, and paid for his tuition in what were described as "the finest private schools." The soldiers in Florida loved the new weapon, but "the unusual hammerless design, sixty years ahead of its time led to difficulty training men used to exposed-hammer guns and many curious soldiers took the locks apart. [22][23], Colt did not refrain long from manufacturing and began selling underwater electrical detonators and waterproof cable of his own invention. Brother of John Colt; James Benjamin Colt; Mary Colt; Margaret Collier Colt; Sarah Ann Colt and 1 other; and Christopher Colt less, The blue dome of the former Colt firearms factory sits atop the Coltsville complex in Hartford, Conn. A decade-long campaign to memorialize the factory that Samuel Colt built in 1855 won approval from Congress to become a national park on Dec. 11, 2014. [8] According to Colt historian Robert Lawrence Wilson, the "lectures launched Colt's celebrated career as a pioneer Madison Avenue-style pitchman". He was interred on the property of his private residence Armsmear and reinterred to Cedar Hill Cemetery in 1894. Among the pistols, we saw Colt's revolver; and we compared it with the best English revolver. The action of the hammer would align the cylinder bores with the single barrel. Showing results for Brick / Block Paving in Bruton page 2 (10-20) Family tree of Samuel COLT Inventor Born Samuel COLT American inventor and industrialist Born on July 19, 1814 in Hartford, Connecticut, USA , United States Died on January 10, 1862 in Hartford, Connecticut, USA Born on July 19 34 Deceased on January 10 38 Family tree Report an error Colt Benjamin 1698 - 1754 Harris Miriam 1699 - 1765 Caldwell John Gonzuallas, Vintage 1917 Colt Advertisement, owning pistol as automobile equipment, 1847 Colt Walker, the largest and most powerful black powder repeating handgun ever made, https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F7NV-3YB. [42], On June 5, 1856, Colt married Elizabeth Jarvis, the daughter of the Rev. Colt died in 1862 as one of the wealthiest men in America. [15] This is shown by an 1836 letter that Colt wrote to his father in which he said, .mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 40px}.mw-parser-output .templatequote .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;padding-left:1.6em;margin-top:0}, The first workman would receive two or three of the most important parts and would affix these and pass them on to the next who would add a part and pass the growing article on to another who would do the same, and so on until the complete arm is put together. We collect and match historical records that Ancestry users have contributed to their family trees to create each person's profile. Zenas lived in 1910, at address, Massachusetts. [36] During 1854 Colt struggled for his patent extension with the U.S. Congress, which initiated a special committee to investigate charges that Colt had bribed government officials in securing this extension. Samuel had three sisters, one of whom died in childhood. He discovered that "regardless of which way the wheel was spun, each spoke always came in direct line with a clutch that could be set to hold it the revolver was conceived!" However, the unit was never sent to the field and Colt was discharged on June 20, 1861. This left Colt time to improve his earlier revolver design and have a prototype built by a gunsmith in New York for his "New and improved revolver". As the world's major proponent of mass production techniques, Colt delivered a lecture concerning the subject to the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) in London. Username and password are case sensitive. [44] Colt's revolvers were made by machine, but he insisted on final hand finishing and polishing of his revolvers to impart a handmade feel. Samuel lived at address. He lived in 1860, at address, Pennsylvania. The standard at the time was to have powder and ball contained in a paper or skin envelope or "cartridge" for ease of loading. [49] The membership rewarded his efforts by awarding him the Silver Telford Medal. Samuel Colt is in the 1st generation of the family tree for Samuel Colt (Ahnentafel #1). The company was saved by the war against the Seminoles in Florida which provided the first sale of Colt's revolvers and his new revolving muskets. Over the years he developed specialized machinery for stock turning or cutting the rifling in gun barrels. Colt did this as New York and London were major cosmopolitan cities and he retained an office in New York at 155 Broadway where he based his salesmen. These models were based on the Walker Colts, and during three generations slight changes to each model showed the evolution of the design. They had 6 children: Marjory Kirk, Joanne C Colt and 4 other children. In 1845, the Texas Rangers hired Colt to produce 1,000 pistols, of "The Walker" model. His goal was an assembly line. Tucker added that Colt associated his revolvers with American patriotism, freedom, and individualism while asserting America's technological supremacy over Europe's. [7] Colt hired a gunsmith by the name of John Pearson to build his revolver. He went so far as to hire agents in other states and territories to find such samples, to buy hundreds of copies for himself and to give the editor a free revolver for writing them, particularly if such a story disparaged his competition. He frequently gave custom engraved versions of his revolvers to heads of state, military officers, and celebrities such as Giuseppe Garibaldi, King Victor Emmanuel II of Italy, and Hungarian rebel Lajos Kossuth. [2], At age 11, Colt was indentured to a farmer in Glastonbury, where he did chores and attended school. Colt. [29] The Whitneyville-Hartford Dragoons, largely built from leftover Walker parts, are known as the first model in the transition from the Walker to the Dragoon series. During late 1843, after the loss of payment for the Florida pistols, the Paterson plant closed and a public auction was held in New York City to sell the company's most liquid assets. Popular media In the TV series Supernatural, Sam Colt is the creator of a revolver that can kill almost anything. The return of the revolver In 1847, Captain Samuel Walker and the Texas Rangers, who had acquired some of the first Colt revolvers produced during the Seminole War, ordered an additional 1,000 revolvers to use in the Mexican-American War. Engraving of Samuel Colt's Manufacturing Company, 1857, east view, Custom Colt .45 pistol model M1911A1, designed for Texas Ranger Capt. He designed, created, and patented the first revolving firearm. He then traveled to France to promote his invention, and there he heard about the emerging conflict between the United States and Germany. Leave a message for others who see this profile. His use of interchangeable parts helped him become one of the first to exploit the assembly line. County: Hartford, 1666-1785; Middlesex, 1785-(Current). The church's architecture contains guns and gun-smithing tools sculpted in marble to commemorate Colt's life as an arms maker. Gunsmithing In 1835, Samuel Colt traveled to England, following in the footsteps of Elisha Collier, a Bostonian who had patented a revolving flintlock. [28][29] Walker asked for a few changes; the new revolvers would have to hold 6 shots instead of 5, have enough power to kill either a human or a horse with a single shot and be quicker to reload. In an effort to end the flooding from the river he planted German osiers, a type of willow tree, in a 2-mile-long dike. Walker and Colt became fast friends. Root's machinery changed that for Colt, since the machines completed as much as 80% of the work and less than 20% of the parts required hand fitting and filing. Root had been successful in an earlier venture automating the production of axes and made, bought, or improved jigs, fixtures and profile machinery for Colt. Because he no longer owned a firearm factory, or even a model of a firearm, Colt hired Eli Whitney Blake, who was established in the arms business, to make his guns. The company founded by Samuel Colt in Hartford, Connecticut is still operating today, and has produced more than 30 million pistols, revolvers, and rifles. His use of interchangeable parts helped him become one of the first to use the assembly line efficiently. Home; Trees; . Colt submitted his single prototype to the War Department as a "Holster revolver". Sarah Caldwell is in the 2nd generation of the family tree for Samuel Colt (Ahnentafel #3). Lucretia Ely 6. Unavailable. With the help of the political acquaintances of these venture capitalists, the Patent Arms Manufacturing Company of Paterson, New Jersey, was chartered by the New Jersey legislature on March 5, 1836. in Hartford, Connecticut, USA, This form allows you to report an error or to submit additional information about this family tree: Samuel COLT (1814), Copyright Wikipdia authors - This article is under licence CC BY-SA 3.0. | Innovators | Samuel Colt", "Church of the Good Shepherd and Parish House", "Guns Gun Culture and the Peddling of Dreams", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Samuel_Colt&oldid=1142271166, Burials at Cedar Hill Cemetery (Hartford, Connecticut), Businesspeople from Hartford, Connecticut, People of Connecticut in the American Civil War, Articles with unsourced statements from January 2016, Articles with unsourced statements from April 2018, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, Inventor, industrialist, businessman, hunter, This page was last edited on 1 March 2023, at 13:31. Geni requires JavaScript! Knowing that some gun parts were made by machine, he envisioned all the parts of every Colt gun to be interchangeable and made by machine, to be assembled later by hand. IMPORTANT PRIVACY NOTICE & DISCLAIMER: YOU HAVE A RESPONSIBILITY TO USE CAUTION WHEN DISTRIBUTING PRIVATE INFORMATION. Skip Ancestry navigation . In 1896 a parish house was built on the site as a memorial to their son, Caldwell, who died in 1894. We encourage you to research and examine these records to . Please enable JavaScript in your browser's settings to use this part of Geni. From this new design, Blake produced the first thousand-piece order known as the Colt Walker. Colt's first two business ventures producing firearms in Paterson, New Jersey, and making underwater mines ended in disappointment. [74] Prominent examples included Francis A. Pratt, Amos Whitney, Henry Leland, Edward Bullard, Worcester R. Warner, Charles Brinckerhoff Richards, William Mason and Ambrose Swasey. He did, however, greatly contribute to the use of interchangeable parts. The DeWolfs developed Bristol into a thriving port in the late 18th and early 19th century. We encourage you to research and examine these . [33], After his revolvers had gained acceptance, Colt had his staff search for unsolicited news stories containing mention of his guns that he could excerpt and reprint. Samuel Colt was an American industrialist and inventor. This new revolver had a stationary trigger and had a larger caliber. This resulted in breakage of parts, stripped screw heads and inoperable guns. In probate court Caroline's son Sam produced a valid marriage license showing that Caroline and Samuel Colt were married in Scotland during 1838 and that this document made him a rightful heir to part of Colt's estate, if not to the Colt Manufacturing Company. Three family members, Roderick, Martha and Derek Colt, had filed notices of intention to appeal in 2020, all of which have since expired. If so, login to add it. [40], Colt knew he had to make his revolvers affordable, as the doom of many great inventions was a high retail price. In 1832, Colt's father sent him to sea to learn the seaman's trade. Parents. Commissioned by Elizabeth Colt in 1902, the foundation for the Samuel Colt Monument was laid in April 1905 and the memorial was dedicated, in a ceremony, on April 26 th, 1906. [citation needed], During 1829, at the age of 15, Colt began working in his father's textile plant in Ware, Massachusetts, where he had access to tools, materials, and the factory workers' expertise. He abandoned the idea of a multiple-barreled revolver and opted for a single fixed-barrel design with a rotating cylinder. [33] Many of the revolvers Colt gave away as "gifts" had inscriptions such as "Compliments of Col. Colt" or "From the Inventor" engraved on the back straps. Colt managed his plant with a military-like discipline: he would dismiss workers for tardiness, sub-par work or even suggesting improvements to his designs. Demonstrating his gun to people in general stores did not generate the sales volume he needed, so with another loan from his cousin Selden, he went to Washington, D.C., and demonstrated it to President Andrew Jackson. The couple had four children: two daughters and a son who died in infancy and a son born during 1858, Caldwell Hart Colt. The pair had seven children: Rhonda, Betty, Cherry, Frank, Charlie, Paula and Martha. Samuel Pomeroy Colt (January 10, 1852 - August 13, 1921) was an industrialist and politician from Rhode Island. We encourage you to research and examine these . Colt then threatened to sue Allen & Thurber due to the cylinder design of their double-action pepperbox revolver. His mother's father had been an officer in the Continental Army and one of Samuel's earliest possessions was his maternal grandfather's flintlock pistol. Toggle Other humans subsection 5.1 Adam . [3], In 1836, Colt received his first U.S. patent for his revolver mechanism design, which allowed a gun to be fired multiple times without reloading. Despite the reluctance of English officials to issue the patent, no fault could be found with the gun and he was issued his first patent (Number 6909). However the unit never took the field and Colt was discharged on June 20, 1861. Later, his firearms were used widely during the settling of the western frontier. Referencing the encyclopedia, Samuel built a homemade galvanic cell and advertised as a Fourth of July event during that year that he would explode a raft on Ware Pond using underwater explosives; although the raft was missed, the explosion was still impressive. [58] He placed numerous advertisements in the same newspapers; The Knickerbocker published as many as eight in the same edition. After the Panic of 1837, the company's underwriters were reluctant to fund the new machinery that Colt needed to make interchangeable parts, so he went on the road to raise money. Historians such as Edwards and Harold Schechter have said this was the elder Colt's way of letting the world know that the boy was his own son without saying so directly. Colt sued the companies and the court ordered that Warner and Massachusetts Arms cease revolver production. Colt historian William Edwards wrote that Samuel Colt had married Caroline Henshaw (who later married his brother, John) in Scotland in 1838, and that the son she bore later was Samuel Colt's and not his brother John's. [16], Although by the end of 1837 the Arms Company had made more than 1,000 weapons, there were no sales. Of the original 80 charges levelled against eight Colts . Skip . Even though he had the only lawful patent for his type of revolver, scores of imitators copied his work and Colt found himself litigating constantly. Harrison Stephens, Ksq., of Montreal, it# native of Ymuaout. This is shown clearly in a letter that Samuel Colt wrote to his father in which he said, "The first workman would receive two or three of the most important partsand would affix these and pass them on to the next who add a part and pass the growing article on to another who would do the same, and so on until the complete arm is put together". Col. Samuel Colt Born 19 Jul 1814 in Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, USA Ancestors Son of Christopher Colt and Sarah (Caldwell) Colt Brother of Margaret Collier Colt, Sarah Ann Colt, John Caldwell Colt, Christopher Colt, James Benjamin Colt, Mary Colt, Norman Knox Colt and William Upson Colt On June 5, 1856, Colt married Elizabeth Jarvis, the daughter of the Reverend William Jarvis, who lived just downriver from Hartford. [35], During this period, Colt received an extension on his patent, since he did not collect fees for it during the early years. discoveries. . [57] He used the newspress to his own advantage by giving revolvers to editors, prompting them to report "all the accidents that occur to the Sharps & other humbug arms", and listing incidents for which Colt weapons had been "well used against bears, Indians, Mexicans, etc". At the same time, Colt's policies forced some competing inventors to greater innovation by denying them major features of his mechanism; as a result they created their own. Ironically, at the time of Samuel Colt's death from gout, Colt had never once fired one of his guns at another human being. Samuel Colt died in Hartford in 1862 and was buried in Cedar Hill Cemetery. Soon after the failure of his former company, while he was marketing the underwater electrical detonators that he had invented, Colt met Samuel Morse. All charts include source citations for ancestors in the charts. Colt died in 1862 as one of the wealthiest men in America. [14], Colt never claimed to have invented revolvers; his design was a more practical adaption of Collier's earlier revolving flintlock incorporating a locking bolt to keep the cylinder aligned with the barrel. [10] The invention of the percussion cap made ignition more reliable, faster, and safer than the older flintlock design. Colt was indentured to a farm in Glastonbury at age 11, where he did chores and attended school. Christopher Colt, a brother of the celebrated Colonel Samuel Colt, of revolver fame, died at Hartford, Ct., on Tuesday last. The Colt family included eight siblings: five boys and three girls. The company then received an order for a thousand more; Colt shared the profits at $10 per pistol for both orders. Home; Trees; . Sam Colt, the bankrupt developer of the Colt Paterson revolver, heard that Walker was in the city looking to buy arms. Any arms purchased under the Militia Act had to be those in the current service to the United States". He subsequently built a factory to manufacture wicker furniture made from these trees. Colt hired artisan gun makers from Bavaria and developed a commercial use for Waterman Ormsby's grammagraph to produce "roll-die" engraving on steel, particularly on the cylinders. [8] Colt constructed fireworks to complete the show, which was a success. Unwilling to alter his open-top single-action design for the solid frame double-action revolver that the British asked for, Colt sold scarcely 23,000 revolvers to the British Army and Navy. If not, see our friends at Ancestry DNA. [17], Constant problems for Colt were the provisions of the Militia Act of 1808, which stated that any arms purchased by a state militia had to be in current service in the United States military. Lt. Bedley McDonald, who was a subordinate of Walker when Walker was killed in Mexico, stated that 30 Rangers used Colt's revolvers to keep 500 Mexicans in check. [16], Colt's U.S. revolver patent gave him a monopoly of revolver manufacture until 1857. [11] This instrument and patent number 1304, dated August 29, 1836, protected the basic principles of his revolving-breech loading, folding trigger firearm named the Colt Paterson. An error has occured while loading the map. In 1842 he used the device to destroy a moving vessel to the satisfaction of the navy and President John Tyler. . We encourage you to research and examine these records to . Research genealogy for Samuel G Colt of Pittsfield, Berkshire, Massachusetts, USA, as well as other members of the Colt family, on Ancestry. In 2006, he was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame. Jackson approved of the gun and wrote Colt a note saying so. Benjamin Colt (c1698-1754) 9. (AP Photo/Bob Child, File) (The Associated Press), The factory, distinguished by its blue onion-shaped dome, opened in 1855 and is perhaps the best-known symbol of an era when gun companies in the Connecticut River valley helped to pioneer the concept of interchangeable parts and drive the Industrial Revolution. Skip Ancestry main menu Main Menu. Historical records and family trees related to Christopher Colt. and it was also truly the first global manufacturing export in American history. [6] The Colt Revolver was the most popular handgun used on the Western frontier by gunslingers, Western pioneers, peace officers, outlaws, cowboys, and the military. By telling each nation that the others were buying Colt's pistols, Colt was able to get large orders from many countries who feared falling behind in the arms race. His goal was the assembly line". Colt's waterproof cable was valuable when Morse ran telegraph lines under lakes and rivers, and bays, and especially for attempts to lay a telegraph line across the entire Atlantic Ocean. Two of the sisters died in childhood and the other committed suicide later in life, but Samuel's brothers were a huge part of his professional life. [33] Colt used this general design for the Colt 1851 Navy Revolver which was larger than the Baby Dragoon, but not quite as large as the full-sized version. The gun became the standard sidearm for U.S. military officers and proved popular among civilian buyers. [67], Colt historian William Edwards wrote that Samuel Colt had married Caroline Henshaw (who later married his brother, John) in Scotland during 1838, and that the son she bore later was Samuel Colt's and not his brother John's. Zenas Colt was born on month day 1905, at birth place, Massachusetts, to Samuel G. Colt and Frances K. Colt. When Martin Van Buren assumed the Presidency in 1837, the ensuing economic crash almost ruined Colt's company. His oldest sister, Margaret, died of tuberculosis at age 19, and the other, Sarah Ann, later committed suicide. [27] Colt tried to use this revenue to resurrect the Patent Arms Manufacturing Company, but could not secure funds from other investors or even his own family. [45] The idea was not new but was never successful in industry at the time because of the lack of interchangeable parts. [52] During a tour of the factory, Charles Dickens was so impressed with the facilities that he recorded his comments of Colt's revolvers in an 1852 edition of Household Words:[53]. 2008 - 2023 INTERESTING.COM, INC. [1], The Peacemaker became the most popular gun in the West when it was introduced in 1873. He later built the Colt's Patent Fire-Arms Manufacturing Company factory at Hartford, Connecticut. Christopher Colt was remarried two years later to Olive Sargeant. George Leo Haydock (1774-1849). in Hartford, Connecticut, USA , United States, Died on January 10, 1862 [34] Ever the opportunist, when the War with Mexico was ended, Colt sent agents south of the border to procure sales from the Mexican government. Samuel G Colt family tree Family tree Explore more family trees. But the local gun industry has severed ties with the project because of laws passed in the wake of the Newtown school shooting. Just one grandparent can lead you to many [67] In a 1953 biography about Samuel Colt based largely on family letters, Edwards wrote that John Colt's marriage to Caroline during 1841 was a way to legitimize her unborn son as the real father, Samuel Colt, felt she was not fit to be the wife of an industrialist and divorce was a social stigma at the time.
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