Howe, Frederick Webster

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Howe, F. W.   Providence, Providence county Rhode Island 1862 1865


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36,466 September 16, 1862 Breech-Loading Fire-Arm
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46,000 January 24, 1865 Improvement in Rear-Sight Bases for Fire-Arms
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46,671 March 7, 1865 Breech-Loading Fire-Arm
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Frederick Webster Howe, born 28 August 1822, died 25 April 1891. He was apprenticed to the Gay, Silver shop in North Chelmsford, Mass. Between 1847 and 1856, he and Richard Lawrence jointly developed numerous innovations for Robbins & Lawrence in Windsor, Vt. He worked for Simeon North, Middletown, Connecticut, for the Providence Tool Company's armory and did several invention in machinery especially for Brown & Sharpe one of the leading machine tool builders.

Howe's patents were used on some Remington New Model Army Revolvers.