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Elizabeth Jarvis Colt (born Elizabeth Hart Jarvis, October 5, 1826 – August 23, 1905) was the widow and heir of firearms manufacturer Samuel Colt, founder of Colt's Manufacturing Company.
As the Civil War raged in 1862, 35-year-old Elizabeth Jarvis Colt suddenly lost her beloved husband and year-old daughter to illness. A son had already died in infancy. Six months after she was widowed, she gave birth to a stillborn daughter. And then her three-year-old daughter died. The Symbolism Of Birds. Watch on.
In 1856 she married Samuel Colt, the world famous arms manufacturer and inventor of the Colt revolver. By this marriage, Elizabeth Jarvis Colt gained access to the restricted social circles of 19th-century Connecticut.
Oct 5, 2020 · Elizabeth Jarvis Colt went on to become a respected civic leader, art patron, and philanthropist. Known as the “The First Lady of Hartford”, she served for 22 years as the president of the Union for Home Work, which provided daycare for the children of working mothers, meals, and access to a library and classes.
1042: Elizabeth Jarvis Colt. She’s Been Relegated to “Sam Colt’s Wife” Status. Born: 5 October 1826, Middletown, Connecticut, United States of America. Died: 23 August 1905, Newport, Rhode Island, United States of America. But in reality, Elizabeth was much, much more.
Aug 4, 2023 · Their daughter, Elizabeth Hart Jarvis, married Samuel Colt of Hartford and for many years after his death ran Colt’s Patent Fire-Arms Manufacturing Company. After the Jarvises, the house was purchased by Erastus Brainerd, Sr. and much later by the Gildersleeve family.
Jun 5, 2021 · On June 5, 1856, Samuel Colt married Elizabeth Hart Jarvis, the daughter of Reverend William Jarvis and Elizabeth Hart of Middletown. Colt chartered the steamboat Washington Irving to transport him and his friends down the Connecticut River to the Episcopal church in Middletown.
