Union Arms Co.

Name	Street	Town	State	From	To
Union Arms Co.	2 Central Row	Hartford	Conecticut	1857	1860

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Documents of the Connecticut Historical Society proves that the company never did made anything. Union Arms Company 2 Central Row Organized 1857 Capilat $5000.000 J.A.B. Cutter, President S.C. Preston, Secretary, J(ames) B. Powell, Treasurer Directors: Charles Thomson, J.A.B. Cutter, Holbert Taylor, S.H. Smith, Luter G. White, M.W. Chaping George S. Loncoln, William L. Wright ans Mason Smith. Of those Directors living in Hartford, we found that Preston was a physician and surgeon, Powell was cashier of the Mercantile Bank, Chapin was a merchant, Lincoln was the head of the Phoenix Iron Foundry located at 54-60 Arch Street where they operated as iron founders, machinists and tool builders, Wright was a painter and Mason Smith was a partner in the firm of Smith, Blodgett & Co., carmen (def. one of a crew of a streetcar or the like, one who drives a car or cart.) The company appears into the directories for 1859 and 1860 but not in the later ones. The Directory also shows there may have been some connection between the Union Arms Company and the Sharps Rifle Manufacturing Company, as the latter also had an office at the same location and also had two Directors in common: S. C. Preston and M. W. Chapin. As this company appears having never made any guns or other things. It could have been a Trade Mark used by different persons as John P.Lower, D.D.Cone, William P.Uhlinger or others. It is strongly assumed that their guns were made by Hankins, Philadelphia, who was associeated with Sharps. Their small pistols provide interchangeable.

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Documents of the Connecticut Historical Society proves that the company never did made anything.

Union Arms Company
2 Central Row
Organized 1857
Capilat $5000.000
J.A.B. Cutter, President
S.C. Preston, Secretary,
J(ames) B. Powell, Treasurer
Directors: Charles Thomson, J.A.B. Cutter, Holbert Taylor, S.H. Smith, Luter G. White, M.W. Chaping George S. Loncoln, William L. Wright ans Mason Smith.
Of those Directors living in Hartford, we found that Preston was a physician and surgeon, Powell was cashier of the Mercantile Bank, Chapin was a merchant, Lincoln was the head of the Phoenix Iron Foundry located at 54-60 Arch Street where they operated as iron founders, machinists and tool builders, Wright was a painter and Mason Smith was a partner in the firm of Smith, Blodgett & Co., carmen (def. one of a crew of a streetcar or the like, one who drives a car or cart.)

The company appears into the directories for 1859 and 1860 but not in the later ones.

The Directory also shows there may have been some connection between the Union Arms Company and the Sharps Rifle Manufacturing Company, as the latter also had an office at the same location and also had two Directors in common: S. C. Preston and M. W. Chapin.

As this company appears having never made any guns or other things. It could have been a Trade Mark used by different persons as John P.Lower, D.D.Cone, William P.Uhlinger or others. It is strongly assumed that their guns were made by Hankins, Philadelphia, who was associeated with Sharps. Their small pistols provide interchangeable.