Riflemakers List

(son of William McClelland German Township, Fayette County (1809-13) Greene Township, Greene County (1817-23) Monongahela Township, Greene County (1824-25)

Beck, Christian

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Categories In Lebanon/Dauphin, Pennsylvania, Riflemakers

School: Lebanon/Dauphin (Pennsylvania/PA)

Christian Beck, brother of J. P. Beck, worked as a gunsmith in the early 1800’s in Lebanon, PA. It appears that he was itinerant for part of his life, travelling westward, as did many gunsmiths at the time. Note: It is possible that there was a father and son who were both gunsmiths, and the matter is further complicated in that there were C. Becks making guns as far west as St. Louis in the following generation. None of this mitigates the fact that some well-made flintlocks signed “C. Beck” adorn some of the finest collections.

Henry, William, III

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Categories In Northampton/Lehigh, Pennsylvania, Riflemakers

School: Northampton/Lehigh (Pennsylvania/PA)

William Henry, III, son of William Henry, Jr., was a gunsmith in the family firearms business at Jacobsburg and Boulton, near present day Nazareth, PA.

Silvis, Jacob

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Categories In Pennsylvania, Riflemakers, Western Pennsylvania

School: Western Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania/PA)

(Born 180?, died 1892) Hempfield Township, Westmoreland County (1826-31) Washington Township, Westmoreland County (1832-90)

Kautz, Gabriel

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Categories In Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Riflemakers

School: Lancaster (Pennsylvania/PA)

Gunsmith, Lancaster Boro., 1863

Kennedy, John and Company

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Categories In Pennsylvania, Riflemakers, Western Pennsylvania

School: Western Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania/PA)

Pittsburg, Alleghany County (1867-1870)

McCune, William

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Categories In Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Riflemakers

School: Lancaster (Pennsylvania/PA)

Gunsmith, Colerain Township, 1826-1846

Fordney, Jacob, Jr.

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Categories In Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Riflemakers

School: Lancaster (Pennsylvania/PA)

Gunsmith, Lancaster Boro., 1834-1849

Toppin, Johnson

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Categories In Pennsylvania, Riflemakers, Western Pennsylvania

School: Western Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania/PA)

(Born 1808 in Maryland) Carmichaels, Greene County (1860) Cumberland Township, Greene County (1870-80)

Parkinson, Frank

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Categories In Pennsylvania, Riflemakers, Western Pennsylvania

School: Western Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania/PA)

(born 1825 in Virginia) Morris Township, Washington County (1870)

Reduk, David

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Categories In Lebanon/Dauphin, Pennsylvania, Riflemakers

School: Lebanon/Dauphin (Pennsylvania/PA)

David Reduk, Annville Twp., Dauphin Co., PA, tax list 1800, gunsmith. (Kauffman)

Hoopes, Nathan

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Categories In Ohio, Riflemakers

School: Ohio

Morgan, County

Wigel (Wigle), Jacob

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Categories In Pennsylvania, Riflemakers, Western Pennsylvania

School: Western Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania/PA)

South Huntingdon Township, Westmoreland County (1811-12) Rostraver Township, Westmoreland County (1813-18) Franklin Township, Fayette County (1818-22) Rostraver Township, Westmoreland County (1822-26) South Huntingdon Township, Westmoreland County (1827-44)

Curry, William

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Categories In Pennsylvania, Riflemakers, Western Pennsylvania

School: Western Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania/PA)

Washington County

Holden, A.C.

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Categories In Ohio, Riflemakers

School: Ohio

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