Samuel Colt
(1814-62)
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Gun inventor and manufacturer.[D8]
According to biographer William B. Edwards, Samuel Colt had married Caroline
Henshaw in Scotland (1838) before his brother John had, and was the father
of her son. He then divorced her and persuaded John to marry her
and pass off his son as John's.[S73]
Place of birth: Lord's Hill, near Hartford, Conn.[S73]
Place of death: Hartford, Conn.[D8]
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