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  Ilion - LoveToKnow 1911
Its principal manufactures are Remington typewriters and Remington fire-arms (notably the Remington rifle); other manufactures are filing cabinets and cases and library and office furniture (the Clark and Baker Co.), knit goods, carriages and harness, and store fixtures.
He invented, and, with the assistance of his sons, Philo (1816-1889), Samuel and Eliphalet, improved the famous Remington rifle, which was adopted by several European governments, and was supplied in large numbers to the United States army.
The post-office, which was established in 1845, was named Remington, in honour of Eliphalet Remington; but later the present name was adopted.
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 Points West Article - The Arms and Art of the Remington Arms Company
For the next 30 years, Eliphalet Remington would specialize in producing such barrels for the burgeoning gunmaking trade that served the growing population along the commerce routes adjoining the Erie Canal and Mohawk Valley.
Eliphalet Remington secured two of these contracts after the original contractors either defaulted on their agreements or subcontracted the work to Remington.
During this period Remington led the field in the new technology of self-contained metallic cartridges, adapting its entire revolver line to the system and adopting Joseph Rider's patented breechloading mechanism to a line of military and civilian single-shot rifles.
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  Remington Cane Guns
Eliphalet Remington, founder of E. Remington and Sons, was on the lookout for products for the civilian trade, and he had to look no further than a cane gun designed by John F. Thomas, an employee at his factory, who had previously been a gunsmith in Ilion.
Remington (Thomas Patent) cane guns were made with a variety of handles, including ball and claw, dog's head (two sizes), full curve, curve with flat gripping area, bulbous-shape, and L-shape.
In the late 1860s, Remington's cane gun was re-designed to handle.22 caliber rimfire ammunition (called the Remington No. 1 Rifle Cane) and.32 caliber rimfire (Remington No. 2 Rifle Cane).Remington's rimfire cane guns were first made with internal hammers, but were later improved with a rod driving the firing pin.
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 Eliphalet Remington — FactMonster.com
Eliphalet took over the business upon his father's death in 1828 and established a rifle factory in Ilion, New York.
Upon Eliphalet's death, his son Philo took over the firm during the Civil War, in which the company again played a key role, and diversified the product line to include sewing machines (1870) and typewriters (1873), which were exhibited at the Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia in 1876.
Eliphalet Remington - Remington, Eliphalet Remington, Eliphalet, 1793–1861, American inventor, gunsmith, and arms...
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 Eliphalet Remington - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
He was born in 1793 in the town of suffield, connecticut, to parents whose origins lay in Yorkshire, England.
As the couple's only son of their four children who survived childhood, Eliphalet II followed in his father's footsteps and entered the flsmith 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.
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From the momen that Eliphalet Remington II forged his first gun barrel, remington firearms became the symbol of quality, accuracy and dur4ability in firearms, traits that continue to this very day.
Remington andSons acquired the rights to produce firearms based on Geiger's patent during the Civil War, and more than 20,000 Remington split-breech carbines were made for the Federal Government utilizing the improvements by Rider, a design employee of Remington.
Remington mid-range sporting and target rifles were built to exacting specifications in the 1870s and '80s.
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 Remington History
Remington and Sons embarked on a new venture, and in September of 1873, the first Remington typewriters were produced.
Remington purchased the commercial farm and wildlife refuge of the late Glenn L. Martin, consisting of 2,970 acres of property near Chestertown, Maryland.
Remington acquired the Hazen, Arkansas plant from the Van Heusen Shirt Co. Some of the Powder Metal operations moved from the Ilion plant to Hazen, and the plant became operational in 1980.
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 TEXAS RANGER DISPATCH Magazine
In 1799, seven-year-old Eliphalet Remington II moved from Suffield, Connecticut, to the small town of Litchfield in upper New York State.
That first Remington handgun was a five-shot, single-action of.31 caliber that sported a three-inch octagon barrel and carried the name of Remington-Beals Pocket Revolver.
Eliphalet II died in 1861, and the company was taken over by Philo.
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 Eliphalet Remington - Encyclopedia.com
The Remington firm later supplied the armies of several European countries with breech-loading rifles.
The first Remington typewriter was exhibited in 1876 at the Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia.
Eliphalet Remington, an SU founding trustee, donated that...
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 Spartanburg SC | GoUpstate.com | Spartanburg Herald-Journal
Remington and Sons, which he headed until his death in 1861.
As the couple's only son of their four children who survived childhood, Eliphalet II followed in his father's footsteps and entered the flsmith 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.
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 Remington Company History
Remington and Sons embarked on a new venture, and in September of 1873, the first Remington typewriters were produced.
Remington purchased the commercial farm and wildlife refuge of the late Glenn L. Martin, consisting of 2,970 acres of property near Chestertown, Maryland.
Remington acquired the Hazen, Arkansas plant from the Van Heusen Shirt Co. Some of the Powder Metal operations moved from the Ilion plant to Hazen, and the plant became operational in 1980.
www.remington.com /library/history/company_history.asp   (3711 words)

  
 De Remington revolver
Eliphalet Remington begon in 1857 revolvers te fabriceren, en dit veertig jaar nadat hij als wapensmid was begonnen.
De eerste Remington patroonrevolver uit 1875 verschilde niet veel met het vroegere 'percussiewapen' van dezelfde firma.
In 1894 keerde Remington terug naar zijn éérste interesse, namelijk de langeloop wapens.
www.adiosamigo.nl /de_remington_revolver.htm   (312 words)

  
 Remington Hair -- Recommendations and Resources   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Remington and Sons was a manufacturer of firearms and typewriters, later the "Remington Typewriter Company".
Remington Steele was an American television detective series first broadcast on the NBC network from *1982 to 1987.
To meet the increased demand for rifle barrels, in 1828 the Remingtons moved their forge and foundry from its rural setting to 100 acres (400,000 m²) of land they had purchased astride the canal and abutting the Mohawk River near a town then called Morgan's Landing (later Ilion), New York.
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 Remington Story, Herkimer county, NY
When the first Eliphalet died, June 28, 1828, Eliphalet Junior became simply Eliphalet; but in the fall of that year his son Eliphalet was born, so that the second Eliphalet became Eliphalet Senior and the little son--the third of the name--became Eliphalet Junior.
It was the second man of the name, the original Eliphalet Junior, who founded what became the Remington Arms Company; because of the confusion caused by the sequence of Eliphalets, he is hereafter referred to as the Founder.
Henceforth, the Founder was the senior Eliphalet Remington and the sole proprietor of the works until his sons came of age.
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 Eliphalet Remington - Gunpedia
Eliphalet Remington (October 28, 1793 – August 12, 1861) is a famous gunsmith, and the founder of Remington Arms.
Eliphalet was born in Connecticut to parents immigrating from Yorshire, England.
He was a flsmith, who at age 23 created the rifle that would start his manufacturing company, which he headed until his death in 1861, where his son Eliphalet II took over.
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 Gallery of Guns - Shooting Times - Gun Reviews   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Remington’s early advertisements in hunting and shooting publications of the day played up the fact that unlike earlier autoloading centerfire rifles with their recoiling barrels, the barrel of the Model740 was fixed and its bolt locked up at the front just like that of a bolt-action rifle.
Remington was not the first to introduce a slide-action deer rifle, but it was the first to introduce a successful slide-action deer rifle.
Remington’s first 870 slug gun, the Brushmaster, first headed for the deer woods in 1961 while skeet shooters and quail hunters got their hands on the first 28-gauge and.410-bore guns with scaled-down receivers in 1966.
www.galleryofguns.com /shootingtimes/Articles/DisplayArticles.asp?ID=31   (3503 words)

  
 Remington Arms Company, Inc. -- Company History
Eliphalet Remington, Jr., the progenitor of Remington Arms, was born in 1793 to Eliphalet and Elizabeth Remington.
Remington's role in the settling of the country would be recounted endlessly in the Hollywood westerns of the 20th century.
Remington enthusiasts were fearful that Remington's legacy of quality and innovation might be trammeled by the private investment group.
www.fundinguniverse.com /company-histories/Remington-Arms-Company-Inc-Company-History.html   (2461 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Eliphalet Remington (Technology, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Eliphalet Remington[ilif´ulit] Pronunciation Key, 1793–1861, American inventor, gunsmith, and arms manufacturer, b.
The Remington firm later supplied the armies of several European countries with breech-loading rifles.
The first Remington typewriter was exhibited in 1876 at the Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia.
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 Remington Arms Company - Demopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: )
It was founded in 1816 by Eliphalet Remington in Ilion, New York, as E. Remington and Sons.
Remington later topped this when Colombia and Venezuela were at war, but both states were also facing civil insurrections.
Remington supplied machine guns and Colt automatic pistols; millions of rifles to Czarist Russia; over half of the small- arms ammunition used by the Anglo-American allies in World War I; and 69 percent of the rifles used by the United States in that conflict.
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 Live Auctioneers - 449: CDV Album of Founder of Remington Arms
One cdv is Eliphalet Remington (1828-1924), apparently the third Remington son by that name.
Remington moved the business to the intersection of the lake and canal in 1828, and many of these cdv's are backmarked Ilion, NY, and nearby towns.
Remington's oldest son, Philo (1816-1889), is credited with helping his father build the family business and operating it during the Civil War, supplying most of the small arms used by the Union, and later with adding the typewriter/business machine division of Remington.
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 Remington@Everything2.com
The company's history allegedly goes back to 1816, when young Eliphalet Remington II built his own flintlock rifle for a shooting match, thus sparking interest among what would be his first customers.
The Remington Typewriter Company proceeded to introduce the first "noiseless" typewriter in 1909, and the first electric typewriter in 1925, only to become Remington Rand in a merge with Rand Kardex in 1927, who would in turn produce the 409 (later sold as UniVAC 60 and 120), the world's first business computer.
In 1955, the historical name Remington was dropped from the company's title altogether as it merged with the Sperry Corporation to form Sperry Rand.
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 Philo Remington   (Site not responding. Last check: )
His father, Eliphalet Remington (1793-1861), as a boy obtained from a country flsmith the privilege of using his forge on rainy days and winter evenings, and with such tools and appliances as his own ingenuity suggested produced a gun.
The breech-loading rifle that bears the name of Remington, of which millions have been made and sold, is the best known of the guns that are made under their supervision.
Philo Remington was for nearly twenty years president of the village of ilion, and with his brother has given Syracuse university sums aggregating $250,000.
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 Better Production - Black Oxide Finish Provides More Than Just A Finish For Gun Manufacturer
When Eliphalet Remington built his first rifle in 1816, James Madison was president of the country.
Although Remington is known for its high quality of its firearms, it is also known for the high quality finish on the rifles and shotguns.
But Remington found that this conditioning step helped with all parts and now, all of their parts are subject to be conditioned in this manner.
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 Remington, Eliphalet   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Eliphalet made rifle barrels, a task at which he became highly skilled.
By his father's death in 1828, the Remingtons' reputation for excellence was established and Eliphalet built a factory in upstate New York in what was called Remington's Corners (now Ilion).
Son Philo Remington (1816--89) became president and reorganized the business, separating out the gun manufacturary (E. Remington and Sons) in 1865.
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 Remington Catalog and information about Remington Firearms and products   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Remington is one of the premier manufacuters of hunting rifles and shotguns.
In 1816 Eliphalet Remington was confident he could make a flintlock that was as good or better than any he could buy.
Eliphalet Remington never lost sight of the fact that his rifles were potentially lethal and could kill someone if handled improperly.
www.luvtohunt.com /sonicremmag/Sonicremmag1.htm   (408 words)

  
 Eliphalet Remington Biography - Biography.com
Eliphalet made rifle barrels, a task at which he became highly skilled.
By his father's death (1828), the Remingtons' reputation for excellence was established, and Eliphalet built a factory in upstate New York in what was called Remington's Corners (now Ilion).
His son, Philo Remington (1816–89), became president and reorganized the business, separating out the gun manufactury (E Remington & Sons) in 1865.
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 Gun Notes - Remington Arms
Remington made a unsuccessful effort to acquire AB Norma Projektilfabrik of Sweden, a producer a centerfire ammunition and components.
Remington announces plans to develop a new Firearms manufacturing facility in Graves County, Kentucky, with plans to invest several million dollars in plant and equipment.
Remington extends both its Super Mag line of shotguns with the Model 11-87 Super Magnum and the Ultra Mag line of magnum calibers with the.338 Remington Ultra Mag.
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 uticaOD.com :: The meeting place and marketplace of the Mohawk Valley   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Eliphalet began his quest for the perfect rifle at a forge in Ilion Gulch in 1816.
Remington also supplied firearms for military purposes: rifles for the U.S Army in the Mexican War, and also to several European countries.
Remington Arms remains a prominent name today, although it is no longer controlled by the Remington family.
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 Remington history
Eliphalet Remington establishes a gunsmith forge business in llion Gorge, N.Y. Remington and Sons manufactures the first commercial typewriter, the Remington Number 1, using Christopher Sholes "QWERTY" keyboard.
Under the guidance of Remington Rand Vice President, Harry Landsiedel, the Remington Electric Shaver Division of Remington Rand is formed.
Remington Products is reorganized and becomes Remington Products Company, L.L.C. Remington was acquired by the Rayovac Corp., Madison, Wis., an international marketer of batteries and battery-operated flashlights and lanterns.
ca.remington-products.com /corpinfo/history.html   (444 words)

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