Oliver Fisher Winchester (November 30, 1810 – December 11, 1880) was an American

United States

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 businessman and politician

Politician

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He was the son of Samuel Winchester and Hannah Bates and was born in Boston

Boston

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 on November 30, 1810. He married Jane Ellen Hope in Boston on February 20, 1834. Their children were:

• Ann Rebecca Winchester (1835–1864) who married Charles B. Dye
• William Wirt Winchester
  William Wirt Winchester
  William Wirt Winchester was the treasurer of the Winchester Repeating Arms Company a position which he held until his death in 1881.-Family:...
  
   (1837–1881) who married Sarah Lockwood Pardee
• Hannah Jane Winchester who married Thomas Gray Bennett

Winchester was known for manufacturing and marketing the Winchester

Winchester rifle

In common usage, Winchester rifle usually means any of the lever-action rifles manufactured by the Winchester Repeating Arms Company, though the company has also manufactured many rifles of other action types...

 repeating rifle

Repeating rifle

A repeating rifle is a single barreled rifle containing multiple rounds of ammunition. These rounds are loaded from a magazine by means of a manual or automatic mechanism, and the action that reloads the rifle also typically recocks the firing action...

, which was a much re-designed descendant of the Volcanic rifle of some years earlier.