born Oct. 28, 1793, Suffield, Conn., U.S. died Aug. 12, 1861, Ilion, N.Y. U.S. firearms manufacturer and inventor. The son of a blacksmith, he grew up on his father's farm near Utica, N.Y., where he made his first flintlock rifle (1816). In 1828 he built a large arms factory at present-day Ilion, N.Y. He and his son Philo improved arms manufacture with the reflection method of straightening gun barrels and the first successful cast-steel, drilled rifle barrel made in the U.S. In 1847 he supplied the U.S. Navy with its first breech-loading rifle. His Remington Arms Co. made small arms for the U.S. government during the American Civil War and World Wars I and II
born Oct. 4, 1861, Canton, N.Y., U.S. died Dec. 26, 1909, near Ridgefield, Conn. U.S. painter, illustrator, sculptor, and war correspondent. He studied at Yale University and New York's Art Students League. He traveled widely and specialized in depicting Native Americans, cowboys, soldiers, horses, and other aspects of life in the American West. His work is notable for its rendering of swift action and its accuracy of detail. He covered the Spanish-American War (1898) as a correspondent. The countless reproductions of his works as newspaper engravings brought him wealth and fame
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() A habitational surname from the Lancashire village of Rimington, Old English "settlement by the Riming ("boundary") stream".