Name | Street | Town | State | From | To |
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Hicks, William Cleveland |   | New Haven | Connecticut | 1857 |   |
Hicks, William Cleveland |   | New York | New York | 1864 |   |
Patent | Date | Remarks |
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16,797 | March 10, 1857 | Improved Nipple for Discharging or Withdrawing Cartridges from Breech-Loading Fire-Arms view patent |
41,814 | March 1, 1864 | Breech-Loading Fire-Arm, assigned to Edward Robinson and E. Chamberlin, New York view patent |
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Though he got his patent only in 1857, his invention was already used by
Smith & Wesson and Volcanic Repeating Arms Co. in 1856. |