Roper Repeating Rifle Company

Name	Street	Town	State	From	To
Roper Repeating Rifle Company		Amherst	Massachusetts	1866	1868
Roper Repeating Rifle Company		Hartfort	Massachusetts	1869	1876

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Founded by C.M. Spencer (see Spencer Repeating Rifle Company) and Sylvester H. Roper. Roper as born in New Hampshire in 1830. He was a mechanical engineer, lived at 229 Eustis Street in Roxbury, Massachussets. He did many inventors as the sewing machine, a knitting machine, hot air furnaces, kitchen ranges, screw making machines, a steam powered bicyclem guns and many others. He died at the Charles River Park in 1894 of a hearth attack while making a trial of a new steam bicycle. A shotgun was made in 12 and 16 gauge in barrel diameter. Less that 2,000 shotguns has been manufactured. Roper manufactured all parts of the gun except the barrel. Some are marked Made by Hopkins and Allen Mfg. CO. Norwich, Conn. The company operaten for two year at Amherst and seven more years at Hartford. Furthermore, probably only at Hartford, .41 caliber (the catalog said .40 caliber) five and six shot rifles were made at $45 respectively $58. Combined guns were made it seems only a 4 shot combination was available.

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Founded by C.M. Spencer (see Spencer Repeating Rifle Company) and Sylvester H. Roper. Roper as born in New Hampshire in 1830. He was a mechanical engineer, lived at 229 Eustis Street in Roxbury, Massachussets. He did many inventors as the sewing machine, a knitting machine, hot air furnaces, kitchen ranges, screw making machines, a steam powered bicyclem guns and many others. He died at the Charles River Park in 1894 of a hearth attack while making a trial of a new steam bicycle.

A shotgun was made in 12 and 16 gauge in barrel diameter. Less that 2,000 shotguns has been manufactured. Roper manufactured all parts of the gun except the barrel. Some are marked Made by Hopkins and Allen Mfg. CO. Norwich, Conn.

The company operaten for two year at Amherst and seven more years at Hartford.

Furthermore, probably only at Hartford, .41 caliber (the catalog said .40 caliber) five and six shot rifles were made at $45 respectively $58.

Combined guns were made it seems only a 4 shot combination was available.