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	Oliver Winchester -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		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 hired Benjamin Henry to improve on the Volcanic repeating rifle, with the result being the Henry repeating rifle.
		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 (434 words)

	Firearms History -- General -- Shooters Bookshelf, books for shooters and gun/firearms enthusiasts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Winchester's Model 70 bolt-action rifle is certainly a classic among fine sporting arms.
		Though many books have been written on Winchester rifles and shotguns, this reference by the former curator of the Winchester Arms Museum (now the Cody Firearms Museum) is the most comprehensive to date on the company that made them.
		Based largely on Winchester company documents and the firearms collection housed at the Cody Firearms Museum for the photographs, the history of the company is told from the days of Oliver F. Winchester until the firm was sold in 1981.
	www.shootersbookshelf.com /index.shtml/12 (1402 words)

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