School: Western Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania/PA)
William G. Shreckengost, 1818-1894 Pennsylvania born, son of gunsmith John Schrecengost born 1776. Wm was a prolific maker of Pennsylvania rifles from the 1830s to the 1880s. A full time gunsmith all his life, he made percussion sporting rifles, target/bench rifles, several swivel breech rifles and a limited number of pistols in his shop along the Mahoning Creek at Putneyville, PA. He was a talented engraver even up to two years before his death.
