Christopher Miner Spencer collection, 1834-1953 bulk 1854-1918.

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Christopher Miner Spencer collection, 1834-1953 bulk 1854-1918.

Composite collection containing both primary and secondary resource materials by and about Christopher M. Spencer and the Spencer family.

1 linear ft.

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SNAC Resource ID: 8070733

Windsor Historical Society

Related Entities

There are 15 Entities related to this resource.

Spencer, Christopher Miner, 1833-1922

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Inventor of repeating rifle, automatic shotgun, and other items, of Manchester and Windsor, Conn. From the description of Christopher Miner Spencer collection, 1833-1922. (Windsor Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 70954182 Inventor and industrialist, of Windsor, Conn.; holder of many patents including an automatic silk-winding machine, various hand tools, automatic screw machines, and a breech-loading repeating firearm; with Charles Ethan Billings, opened a forge shop...

Roper Sporting Arms Co.

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Taylor, Vesta Spencer, 1884-1971

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Billings, Charles Ethan, 1834-

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Spencer, Georgette Taylor Rogers, 1859-1906

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Billings & Spencer Company (Hartford, Conn.)

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Spencer, Percival Hopkins, 1897-1995

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Wilder, John Thomas, 1830-1917

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Union Army officer; businessman in Chattanooga after the Civil War and Mayor of the city (1871-1872). From the description of John T. Wilder papers, 1862-1899. (University of Tennessee at Chattanooga). WorldCat record id: 60378950 ...

Spencer family.

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Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

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Abraham Lincoln (born February 12, 1809, Sinking Spring Farm near Hodgenville, Kentucky-died April 15, 1865, Washington, D.C.) was the sixteenth President of the United States from 1861 until his death by assassination. He was the son of a Kentucky frontiersman, Thomas Lincoln, and Nancy Hanks. In 1816, Lincoln moved to Pigeon Creek, Indiana, where he worked on his family's farm. Following his mother's death two years later, he continued working on farms until moving with his father to New Sa...

Peytona (Steamship)

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Spencer Arms Company

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Cheney, Frank, 1817-1904

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Rogers, Frances Linnell Taylor

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Rogers, George Washington, 1818-1870

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