Eliphalet Remington

Firearms manufacturer, born in Suffield, Connecticut, USA. He stayed on his father's farm even after marriage. In 1816 the family removed to Herkimer Co, NY, where the father built a water-powered forge to make agricultural tools. Eliphalet made rifle barrels, a task at which he became highly skilled. By his father's death (1828), the Remingtons' reputation for excellence was established, and Eliphalet built a factory in upstate New York in what was called Remington's Corners (now Ilion). The business grew, and he purchased the machinery and contracts from Ames Co, in Springfield, MA(1845) and in 1847 introduced the Remington pistol. With his three sons the factory expanded to produce agricultural implements (1856). The Civil War had just brought a great demand for Remington firearms when Eliphalet died. His son, Philo Remington (1816–89), became president and reorganized the business, separating out the gun manufactury (E Remington & Sons) in 1865. Expansions included sewing machines (1870) and typewriters (1873), but in 1887 the company had retrenched, selling off all factories except those making firearms.

Eliphalet Remington (October 28, 1793 – August 12, 1861) designed the now-famous Remington rifle.

The gun received such an enthusiastic response that Remington decided to manufacture it in quantity, and formed the firm of E.

The company continued to grow and to develop its product and gradually began the manufacture of other sporting goods, such as bicycles. At the present time, the company is known as the Remington Arms Co., Inc.

What began as a one-man enterprise has become one of the world's leading manufacturers of sporting arms. Before the Remington Company was formed, American sportsmen relied upon foreign sources for the majority of the sporting guns they used.

Eliphalet and Elizabeth Remington's second child was a son, Eliphalet II, named for his father. As the couple's only son of their four children who survived childhood, Eliphalet II followed in his father's footsteps and entered the blacksmith trade at the family's rural forge in Herkimer County, New York.

Situated in the Mohawk River Valley — the eastern gateway to the expanding Northwest Territory and in the path of the still-to-be-constructed Erie Canal — the fieldstone Remington forge was astride a trade route that would bring prosperity to the family and the other inhabitants of the region. The expansion of population and wealth along that conduit of commerce would cause Eliphalet Remington to enter the arms making business.