ELIPHALET REMINGTON
Name: Eliphalet Remington
Born: 28 October 1793
Died: 12 August 1861
Eliphalet Remington (October 28, 1793 - August 12, 1861) designed the Remington
rifle.
He was born in 1793 in the town of Suffield, Connecticut, to parents whose
origins lay in Yorkshire, England. He was a blacksmith, and at 23, he hand-made
a revolutionary sporting rifle using a firing mechanism bought from a dealer,
producing the barrel himself.
The gun received such an enthusiastic response that Remington decided to
manufacture it in quantity, and formed the firm of E. Remington and Sons, which
he headed until his death in 1861 . By the mid-1800s the gun had become
immensely popular with American sportsmen and was one of the standard guns used
in what has been called "the winning of the West".
The company continued to grow and to develop its product and gradually began the
manufacture of other sporting goods, such as bicycles. At the present time, the
company is known as the Remington Arms Co., Inc.
What began as a one-man enterprise has become one of the world's leading
manufacturers of sporting arms. Before the Remington Company was formed,
American sportsmen relied upon foreign sources for the majority of the sporting
guns they used. The production of a rifle within the reach of men who wanted and
needed a good gun changed the picture permanently.
Eliphalet and Elizabeth Remington's second child was a son, Eliphalet II, named
for his father. As the couple's only son of their four children who survived
childhood, Eliphalet II followed in his father's footsteps and entered the
blacksmith trade at the family's rural forge in Herkimer County, New York.
Situated in the Mohawk River Valley the eastern gateway to the expanding
Northwest Territory and in the path of the still-to-be-constructed Erie Canal
the fieldstone Remington forge was astride a trade route that would bring
prosperity to the family and the other inhabitants of the region. The expansion
of population and wealth along that conduit of commerce would cause Eliphalet
Remington to enter the arms making business.
Name: Eliphalet Remington
Born: 28 October 1793
Died: 12 August 1861
Eliphalet Remington (October 28, 1793 - August 12, 1861) designed the Remington
rifle.
He was born in 1793 in the town of Suffield, Connecticut, to parents whose
origins lay in Yorkshire, England. He was a blacksmith, and at 23, he hand-made
a revolutionary sporting rifle using a firing mechanism bought from a dealer,
producing the barrel himself.
The gun received such an enthusiastic response that Remington decided to
manufacture it in quantity, and formed the firm of E. Remington and Sons, which
he headed until his death in 1861 . By the mid-1800s the gun had become
immensely popular with American sportsmen and was one of the standard guns used
in what has been called "the winning of the West".
The company continued to grow and to develop its product and gradually began the
manufacture of other sporting goods, such as bicycles. At the present time, the
company is known as the Remington Arms Co., Inc.
What began as a one-man enterprise has become one of the world's leading
manufacturers of sporting arms. Before the Remington Company was formed,
American sportsmen relied upon foreign sources for the majority of the sporting
guns they used. The production of a rifle within the reach of men who wanted and
needed a good gun changed the picture permanently.
Eliphalet and Elizabeth Remington's second child was a son, Eliphalet II, named
for his father. As the couple's only son of their four children who survived
childhood, Eliphalet II followed in his father's footsteps and entered the
blacksmith trade at the family's rural forge in Herkimer County, New York.
Situated in the Mohawk River Valley the eastern gateway to the expanding
Northwest Territory and in the path of the still-to-be-constructed Erie Canal
the fieldstone Remington forge was astride a trade route that would bring
prosperity to the family and the other inhabitants of the region. The expansion
of population and wealth along that conduit of commerce would cause Eliphalet
Remington to enter the arms making business.