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Bullard, James Herbert |   | Springfield | Massachusetts | 1886 | 1890 |
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187,689 | February 20, 1877 | Improvement in Revolving Fire-Arm, Wesson and James H. Bullard patent Patent drawing |
198,228 | December 18, 1877 | Improvement in Revolving Fire-Arm, Wesson and James H. Bullard patent Patent drawing |
210,180 | Nov. 26, 1878 | Machine for Checking Pistol-Handles, Assignor to Daniel B. Wesson see patent |
245,700 | Aug. 16, 1881 | Magazine Fire Arm see patent |
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See Bullard Repeating Arms Co. James Herbert Bullard born May 14, 1842 in Poultney, Vermont, died on March 26, 1914. In 1854 his family moved to Barre, Massachusetts. In 1858 still at age of 15 he started work for C.W. & J.W. Smith Mercantile House. During the Civil War he tried to join he Union Army, but was refused due to a shildhood accidend that has disabled his leg. Though he worked for the Lamb Knitting Machine Company and the Wheeler & Wilson Sowing Machine Company until 1874 when he was engaged by Smith & Wesson as a Master Mechanic. Daniel Wesson persouhadet Bullard to left Smith & Wesson and worked instead for the Springfield Sewing Machine Company, a Smith & Wesson Company. He left that company in 1881 and setted up the Bullard Repeating Arms Company which he left already in 1885 when he became interested in steam car and other interests. However, he still kept his stock in the Bullard Repeating Arms Company. Between 1885 to 1887 he worked on liquid fuel burners and steam cars. On June 14, 1887 the Aerated Fuel Company was formed with Bullard as treasurer and manager. The company was dissolved in 1907. In 1898 or 1899 his steam car became the Overman VIctor Steam Automobile. |