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Worley, Jesse

School: Berks (Pennsylvania/PA) Jeese Worley was a gun maker and owner of a gun barrel factory along the Wyomissing Creek in Cumru Township from 1788 until 1838. Two of his sons, John and Henry worked in the factory making gun barrels until 1890. Rifles signed with J. Worley or J.W. are found to have the […]

Ebert, Benjamin & John

School: Maryland Frederick Benjamin and his son John were general gunsmiths prior to the Civil War and were located on the south side of Patrick Street west of Bentz Street in Frederick. By the 1880s they were advertising as Benjamin Ebert & Son at 67 West Patrick Street. In 1895 they were advertising hardware and […]

Henry, Granville

School: Northampton/Lehigh (Pennsylvania/PA) Granville Henry (1835-1912, son of James Henry, carried on the family gunmaking tradition for the fourth generation at the Boulton gun factory. This is ths site of the present-day Jacobsburg Plantation and Pennsylvania Museum of the Longrifle, near the Belfast Exit, Rt. 33, north of Easton, PA. The entire evolution of the […]