Elisha K. Root
Elisha King Root (May 5, 1808 - September 1, 1865) was a Connecticut machinist, inventor, and President of Colt's Manufacturing Company. Root was born on a Massachusetts farm and worked as a bobbin boy in a cotton mill before switching, at the age of 15, to working in a machine shop in Ware, Massachusetts. At age 24 he was hired by Connecticut industrialist Samuel W. Collins to work in his axe factory in Collinsville, a village of Canton, Connecticut. After Colt's death in 1862, Root took over as president of Colt's Patent Firearms until his death on September 1, 1865.
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Elisha K. Root
Elisha King Root (May 5, 1808 - September 1, 1865) was a Connecticut machinist, inventor, and President of Colt's Manufacturing Company. Root was born on a Massachusetts farm and worked as a bobbin boy in a cotton mill before switching, at the age of 15, to working in a machine shop in Ware, Massachusetts. At age 24 he was hired by Connecticut industrialist Samuel W. Collins to work in his axe factory in Collinsville, a village of Canton, Connecticut. After Colt's death in 1862, Root took over as president of Colt's Patent Firearms until his death on September 1, 1865.
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Elisha King Root (05 de maio d ...... turing Company em Connecticut.
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Еліша Кінг Рут (англ. Elisha K ...... Colt's Manufacturing Company.
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1808-05-05
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Elisha Root
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Ludlow, Massachusetts, United States
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1865-09-01
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Hartford, Connecticut, United States
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Matilda
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Elisha King Root (05 de maio d ...... turing Company em Connecticut.
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Elisha King Root (May 5, 1808 ...... is death on September 1, 1865.
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Еліша Кінг Рут (англ. Elisha K ...... Colt's Manufacturing Company.
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