School: Ohio
John Briggs Hixson 1822 -1899. He is listed as a gunsmith in Antrim, Guernsey County, Ohio circa 1850, and in the book “Longrifles of Ohio” listed in 1859. There is mention of a rifle by JB Hixson in Ohio Gunsmiths & Allied Tradesmen Vol. 1. He made fine full stock percussion longrifles with silver inlays and engraved his signature “JB Hixson” on the top of the barrel.
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