John Ericsson

John Ericsson

male, deceased (1889)
Swedish military personnel, from Värmland, Värmland, Business Person, Swedish-American, AmericanCivilWarindustrialist
John Ericsson was a Swedish inventor and mechanical engineer, as was his brother, Nils Ericson. He was born at Långbanshyttan in Värmland, Sw...
Daniel B. Wesson

Daniel B. Wesson

male, deceased (1906)
summer house, Smith and Wesson, Medici, Gunsmiths, AmericanCivilWarindustrialist, American
Daniel Baird Wesson (born Worcester, Massachusetts, May 181825 - died August 4 1906), son of Rufus and Betsey (Baird) Wesson. He married Cynthia...
Horace Smith

Horace Smith

male, deceased (1893)
inventor, cartridge, American, AmericanCivilWarindustrialist, Smith & Wesson, repeating rifle
Horace Smith (born Cheshire, Massachusetts, 1808 - died 1893) partnered with Daniel B. Wesson in Norwich, Connecticut in the early 1850s to develop...
Andrew Carnegie

Andrew Carnegie

male, deceased (1919)
Businessman, Carnegie Steel Company, US Steel, Business Person, J.P. Morgan, American…Industrialist, American railroad executive, AmericanCivilWarindustrialist
Andrew Carnegie was a Scottish-American industrialist, businessman, a major philanthropist, and the founder of Pittsburgh's Carnegie Steel Company...
Robert Parker Parrott

Robert Parker Parrott

male, deceased (1877)
United States Military Academy, United States Army officer, West Point graduate, Foundrymen, confederate, american civil war…American, AmericanCivilWarindustrialist
Robert Parker Parrott (October 5, 1804 - December 24, 1877) was an American soldier and inventor of military ordnance. Born in Lee, New Hampshire,...
Samuel Colt

Samuel Colt

male, deceased (1862) (Connecticut, United States)
revolver, National Inventors Hall of Fame, Colt's Manufacturing Company, Colt's Patent Fire-Arms Manufacturing Company, inventor, Firearm designer…American, Industrialist, AmericanCivilWarindustrialist
Samuel Colt (born Hartford, Connecticut July 19, 1814 - died Hartford, Connecticut January 10, 1862) was an American inventor and industrialist. He...
John Crerar

John Crerar

male, deceased (1889)
Industrialist, Scottish American, from New York, philanthropist, American, from Chicago…AmericanCivilWarindustrialist, American industrialist, American philanthopist
John Crerar (1827-1889) was a wealthy American industrialist and businessmen from Chicago, who investments were primarily in the railroad industry....
George Pullman

George Pullman

male, deceased (1897)
buried at Graceland Cemetery, National Inventors Hall of Fame, Pullman, Chicago, Pullman Company, Pullman, Business Person…AmericanCivilWarindustrialist, American
George Mortimer Pullman was an American inventor and industrialist. He is remembered as the inventor of the Pullman sleeping car, and for violently...
Benjamin Tyler Henry

Benjamin Tyler Henry

male, deceased (1898)
american civil war, inventor, patent, Gunsmith, American, AmericanCivilWarindustrialist
Benjamin Tyler Henry (1821-1898) was an American gunsmith and manufacturer. He was the inventor of the Henry rifle, the first reliable lever-action...
Richard Jordan Gatling

Richard Jordan Gatling

male, deceased (1903)
inventor, United States Army, colt, Firearm designer, American, AmericanCivilWarindustrialist
Dr. Richard Jordan Gatling (September 12, 1818 - February 26, 1903) was an American inventor best known for his invention of the Gatling gun, the...