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	Oliver Winchester - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Winchester hired Benjamin Tyler Henry to improve on the Volcanic repeating rifle, with the result being the Henry repeating rifle.
		Winchester was also active in politics, serving as a New Haven City Commissioner, Republican Presidential elector in 1864, and as Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut from 1866 - 1867.
		William's wife Sarah believed the family was cursed by the spirits killed by the Winchester rifle, and moved to California and began building a chaotic mansion with her inheritance, to confuse the spirts seeking revenge.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Oliver_Winchester (402 words)

	Winchester rifle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Winchester Rifle refers to an early family of repeating rifles manufactured by the Winchester Repeating Arms Company that was used widely in the United States during the latter half of the 19th century.
		The original Winchester rifle was famous for its rugged construction and lever-action breech mechanism that allowed the rifleman to fire a number of shots before having to reload: hence the term, "repeating rifle".
		The ancestor of the Winchester rifles was the Volcanic lever action rifle of Horace Smith and Daniel B. Wesson.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Winchester_rifle (496 words)

	Oliver Winchester -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Oliver Fisher Winchester (November 30, 1810 - December 11, 1880) was a famous (A native or inhabitant of the United States) American (A person engaged in commercial or industrial business (especially an owner or executive)) businessman and (A person active in party politics) politician.
		Winchester was a clothing manufacturer in (Click link for more info and facts about New York, New York) New York, New York, and (Click link for more info and facts about New Haven, Connecticut) New Haven, Connecticut, before investing his money in the Volcanic Repeating Arms Company when it was founded in 1850.
		When Winchester died his ownership in the company passed to his son, William Winchester, who died of (Infection transmitted by inhalation or ingestion of tubercle bacilli and manifested in fever and small lesions (usually in the lungs but in various other parts of the body in acute stages)) tuberculosis in March of the next year.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/O/Ol/Oliver_Winchester.htm (443 words)

	Winchester History/Archive
		Winchester expanded facilities and its manufacturing plant at New Haven covered over eighty acres of ground and was recognized as the leader as well as the pioneer in arms and ammunition manufacture, and the name "Winchester" was known the world over as a synonym for quality and service.
		Winchester was a public spirited citizen, serving as first a Republican state elector, a city commissioner in New Have and finally in 1866, he was elected Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut.
		Winchester died September 10, 1880, this man of the most upright character and the organization which he founded has continues through the many years of its development, to follow the inspiration of its first leader.
	www.thckk.org /winchester-hist.html (703 words)

	Oliver Winchester (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Oliver Fisher Winchester (November 30, 1810 - December 11, 1880) was a famous American gunsmith.
		His main claim to fame was his 1854 invention, the volcanic repeating rifle, also known as the Winchester rifle, which was later used somewhat in the Civil War.
		However, the United States Army at that time did not use many Winchesters; rather, the main repeating rifles were given to cavalry forces, and those were mainly Sharps' Carbines, which were used effectively in such battles as Gettysburg.
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	Oliver Winchester
		His main claim to fame was his manufacture and marketing of the Volcanic repeating rifle, known as the Winchester rifle after he changed the company's name to Winchester Repeating Arms Company.
		Winchester was a clothing manufacturer in New York, New York, and New Haven, Connecticut, before investing his money in the Volcanic Arms Company when it was founded in 1850.
		William's wife Sarah believed the family was cursed by the spirits killed by the Winchster rifle, and moved to California and began building a chaotic mansion with her inheratance, to confuse the spirts seeking revenge.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/oliver_winchester (382 words)

	Oliver Trucking Company
		Oliver Trucking Company, Inc. brings you success through its superior operations and experienced support team.
		Oliver Trucking Company is responsive to your need for prompt and comprehensive service.
		Oliver has the equipment to serve you on and off the road.
	www.olivertrucking.net (208 words)

	Oliver's Battery - Winchester and its villages - Hampshire local pages (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		The Parish of Oliver's Battery was formed in 1956 from part of Compton Parish, and covers only 300 acres.
		Ralph Riggs, the then Mayor of Winchester, replied within half an hour that he could not open the city gates to Cromwell as the responsibility for yielding or resisting lay with Lord Ogle, who was the temporary military governor of the besieged city.
		Winchester surrendered to Cromwell on Monday 6 October, although the garrison was very strong and the castle and city well supplied with food and other stores: the defenders could have held out under siege for weeks, but chose to capitulate before too much damage was done to the cathedral and other venerable buildings.
	www.hants.gov.uk /localpages/central/winchester/olivers_battery (439 words)

	THE WINCHESTER MYSTERY HOUSE
		The young man’s name was William Wirt Winchester and he was the son of Oliver Winchester, a shirt manufacturer and businessman.
		The family prospered and on September 30, 1862, at the height of the Civil War, William Wirt Winchester and Sarah Pardee were married in an elaborate ceremony in New Haven.
		Winchester was sleeping on the night of the earthquake) collapsed, shifting the room and trapping Sarah inside.
	www.geocities.com /jsti3182/Holiday/Halloween/Haunted_Places/Winchester.htm (2363 words)

	Winchester Mystery House (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		The Winchester Mystery House is located in San Jose California at 525 South Winchester Blvd. and is historical landmark #868.
		William was the son of Oliver Winchester, the manufacturer of the well known Winchester Repeating Rifle.
		The medium explained that there was a curse imposed upon her by vengeful spirits of those killed by the Winchester Rifle.
	www.hallowfreaks.com /winchester.html (713 words)

	Points West Article - The Gentlemenâs Agreement
		The nineteenth century was the age of Social Darwinism and two of the fittest of the survivors were Samuel Colt and Oliver Winchester.
		One of Winchesterâs first moves was to hire Benjamin Tyler Henry as plant superintendent of the newly-formed New Haven Arms Company with instructions to develop a cartridge and a rifle.
		Winchester vigorously defended his company in the courts and the corridors of political influence, and he successfully challenged and halted a hostile takeover of the company led by Henry, his former plant superintendent.
	www.bbhc.org /pointsWest/PWArticle.cfm?ArticleID=130 (673 words)

	The History of Winchester Firearms by Dean K. Boorman
		Oliver Winchester, the founder of the company, was an astute businessman who hired the best designers and gunmakers and acquired companies and patents in order to create a full range of longarms.
		Winchesters were the favorites of cowboys, lawmen, outlaws, and pioneers of the West, and are now highly sought-after -- and often extremely valuable -- collectibles throughout the world.
		Winchester Firearms is a perfect addition to the library of Wild West buffs, historians, and lovers of firearms.
	www.wilsonbooks.com /HistWinF.html (365 words)

	The Winchester Mystery House and Other Ghost Stories of Industry in Silicon Valley
		Sarah Winchester was the wife of William Wirt Winchester; William was the son of Oliver Winchester, the first president of the fabulously wealthy Winchester Repeating Arms Company.
		Moreover, it seems fairly certain that Sarah's work on the house went beyond a loopy interest in the occult, for her ghosts were associated with a specific source: the rifles that her family was mass producing, and a company that continued to pump out rifle after rifle, presumably mass producing ghosts in the process.
		Contrary to popular legend, Oliver Winchester did not invent the Winchester rifle, he merely found a means of marketing the newly invented repeating rifles of the post-Civil War era.
	www.techsploitation.com /socrates/Winchester_Silicon.html (2716 words)

	travel wise :: Bizarre Winchester Mansion - a Perfect Tour for Mystery Lovers in San Jose, California (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Oliver Winchester made millions after purchasing the right to B. Henry Tyler's 1860 repeating rifle.
		Winchester soon began mass-producing a new and improved repeating rifle, the Winchester Model 1866.
		Those who tour Winchester Mansion may be reminded of Edgar Allen Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher," a home whose deteriorating state mirrored the condition of its inhabitants.
	www.travel-wise.com /northamerica/winchester (794 words)

	Sports Afield: Classic names in sporting: Oliver Fisher Winchester (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Oliver Fisher Winchester was a farm boy born in Boston in 1810.
		Shortly after Winchester's death in 1880, his wife Sarah fell under the influence of a spiritualist who told her she had to appease the spirits of those whose lives had been taken by her husband's famous rifles.
		Winchesters are made today by U. Repeating Arms Company, and Oliver's most enduring monument remains an awful lot of fine rifles and shotguns-not some spooky mansion.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3775/is_200011/ai_n8917289 (334 words)

	Oliver Fisher Winchester
		WINCHESTER, Oliver Fisher, manufacturer, born in Boston, Massachusetts, 30 November, 1810; died in New Haven, Connecticut, 10 December, 1880.
		Winchester was a Republican presidential elector in 1864, and in 1866 was chosen lieutenant-governor of Connecticut.
		Governor Winchester was also much interested in horticulture, and his residence and grounds in New Haven were among the finest in the city.
	www.famousamericans.net /oliverfisherwinchester (647 words)

	Read about Oliver Winchester at WorldVillage Encyclopedia. Research Oliver Winchester and learn about Oliver Winchester ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Winchester was also active in politics, serving as a New Haven City Commissioner,
		William Winchester, who died of tuberculosis in March of the next year.
		Sarah believed the family was cursed by the spirits killed by the Winchester rifle, and moved to California and began building a
	encyclopedia.worldvillage.com /s/b/Oliver_F._Winchester (385 words)

	The Winchester Repeating Rifle, The Gun That Won The West
		Winchester's plant foreman of the day Nelson King designed it to replace the slotted tube design.
		In around 1963 Winchester regained its reputation and the company was once again known as a producer of quality firearms.
		Sarah turned to the psychics and was told that she had to build a place for all the spirits that Winchester had created.
	ca.geocities.com /winchesterguns (1687 words)

	Oliver Winchester (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Winchester empleó el Henrio de Benjamin para mejorar en el rifle de repetición volcánico, con el resultado siendo el Henrio que repetía el rifle.
		Winchester era también activo en la política, sirviendo como comisión de la ciudad de New Haven, elector presidencial republicano en 1864, y como teniente Governor de Connecticut a partir de 1866 - 1867.
		Cuando Winchester murió su propiedad en la compañía pasada a su hijo, Guillermo Winchester, que murió de tuberculosis en marcha del año próximo.
	www.yotor.net /wiki/es/ol/Oliver%20Winchester.htm (455 words)

	The Winchester Model 1876 Rifle
		The Winchester Model 1876 Rifle was Oliver Winchester’s attempt to offer a large caliber repeating rifle specifically designed for big game hunting.
		Earlier repeating rifles such as the Henry, Spencer, and Winchester Models of 1866 and 1873 may have seen limited use, but only the Model 1876 was considered by hunters as powerful enough to do the job against the big woolies.
		Oliver Winchester noted that in this seventh trial, the shell had burst into fragments and the escape of gas at the breech did the damage.
	www.bar-w.com /1876v04.html (1837 words)

	Interesting Thing of the Day: Winchester Mystery House
		Winchester would be told, embellished, and retold until it was impossible to separate truth from fiction.
		Winchester had visited a psychic in Boston who convinced her that she was indeed under a curse of sorts.
		Winchester, in daily séances, received plans for the next day’s work directly from the dead, and simply did as she was told.
	itotd.com /articles/279 (1653 words)

	The Winchester Model 1876 Rifle
		Oliver Winchester noted that in this seventh trial, the shell had burst into fragments and the escape of gas at the breech "did all the mischief."
		Winchester’s competitors for the Model 1876 included the Marlin Model 1881, the Colt Burgess rifle, the Colt Lightning rifle, and the large frame Whitney-Kennedy models.
		By 1885, Winchester had concluded an arrangement with John Browning of Ogden, Utah for the manufacture of a new lever action rifle.
	www.bar-w.com /1876v03.html (1572 words)

	Pistols Linked To Oliver Winchester Sell: Maine Antique Digest, May 1998 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Oliver Winchester decided Henry should name his invention after himself.
		Oliver Winchester, whose background was in making and selling men's clothing, became an even wealthier man as a result of the Civil War.
		In 1880 Oliver Winchester died at age 70.
	www.maineantiquedigest.com /articles/winc0598.htm (460 words)

	Sarah and the Mystery House
		When Sarah was in her mid-twenties, she met William Wirt Winchester, son of Oliver Winchester, of Winchester Rifle fame.
		Their family was expanding and due to the Civil War, the Winchester rifle was being sold by the thousands.
		She confirmed Sarah’s theory that there was indeed a “curse” on the family; the spirits of all those who’d been killed by the Winchester rifles had taken her daughter and husband.
	suite101.com /article.cfm/historys_wild_women/114010 (779 words)

	CollectingChannel.com The Winchester legacy makes for great firearm collecting (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Winchester became synonymous after Oliver Winchester's culmination in lever-action production with the Model 94 carbine, which not only became the symbol of the West and all lever-action
		Trained to make his living as a master carpenter, Oliver Winchester didn't become interested in firearms or their manufacture until 1855 when he organized a company known as the Volcanic Arms Company.
		Winchester couldn't have done it without Henry and by the mid-1860s, before the end of the Civil War many of his rifles were in service.
	www.collectingchannel.com /cdsDetFeat.asp?PID=102556&CID=129 (430 words)

	Firearm Auction in CA Successful; Maine Antique Digest, August 1998 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		After an early variation of the Winchester, the Henry rifle, had been used effectively by the Union in the Civil War, Oliver Winchester tried to persuade the U.S. Army to adopt the lever-action, rapid-firing repeating rifles as standard issue.
		Oliver Winchester appreciated Dodge's efforts and lured him away from his government job and into the Winchester organization, where he became head patent attorney.
		With Winchester's precise serial number sequence, each rifle can be pinpointed to the exact month and year it was shipped from the factory.
	www.maineantiquedigest.com /articles/lilj0898.htm (761 words)

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