The Worcester of eighteen hundred and ninety-eightFifty years a city . ETHAN ALLEN, The Worcester of 1898. 543 small-arms business in which he was so successful, and in which he precededColt. One of his early inventions was the self-cocking revolver, known asthe pepper-box, which was much in demand at the time of the Mexicanwar and the California gold discovery, and yielded a large pecuniary his other inventions were several forms of revolving pistols; abreech-loading rifle similar to the Sharps, but said to be its superior;machinery in variety for manufacturing firearms; and a se
The Worcester of eighteen hundred and ninety-eightFifty years a city . ETHAN ALLEN, The Worcester of 1898. 543 small-arms business in which he was so successful, and in which he precededColt. One of his early inventions was the self-cocking revolver, known asthe pepper-box, which was much in demand at the time of the Mexicanwar and the California gold discovery, and yielded a large pecuniary his other inventions were several forms of revolving pistols; abreech-loading rifle similar to the Sharps, but said to be its superior;machinery in variety for manufacturing firearms; and a series of machines,of great perfection, for making metallic cartridges. At the CentennialExhibition in 1876 nothing attracted more attention than the last made in the course of his career a greater variety of firearms than anyother manufacturer in this HE ETHAN ALLEN HOMESTEAD. About the year 1837 Slv. Allen tot)k in partnership his brother-in-law,Charles Thurber, who continued in business with him until 1856, and earlyin the fifties another brother-in-law, T. P. Wheelock, was associated withthem, the firm passing through the name-changes of Allen & Thurber,xVIlen, Thurber & Conlpany, and Allen cS: Wheelock. After the death ofMr. Wheelock in 1863, Mr. Allen took into partnership S. Forehand and AVadsworth, and the-firm until his death was known as Ethan Allen &Company. In 1S37 the business was removed to Norwich, Connecticut, where itwas carried on about ten years, and was then finally located in Worcester, atfirst in the Merrifield buildings, and after the great fire of 1854, in which
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