Daniel Baird Wesson (born Worcester, Massachusetts, May 18, 1825 - died August 4, 1906), son of Rufus and Betsey (Baird) Wesson. He married Cynthia Maria Hawes, May 26, 1847 in Thompson, Connecticut. He partnered with Horace Smith in Norwich, Connecticut in the early 1850s to develop the first repeating rifle, the Volcanic rifle.
Daniel Wesson also built a summer home in Northborough, Massachusetts. It was called Wesson Terrace. Now called White ...
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Daniel Baird Wesson (born Worcester, Massachusetts, May 18, 1825 - died August 4, 1906), son of Rufus and Betsey (Baird) Wesson. He married Cynthia Maria Hawes, May 26, 1847 in Thompson, Connecticut. He partnered with Horace Smith in Norwich, Connecticut in the early 1850s to develop the first repeating rifle, the Volcanic rifle.
Daniel Wesson also built a summer home in Northborough, Massachusetts. It was called Wesson Terrace. Now called White Cliffs, it is owned by the La Cava family and is a function facility often used for weddings, wedding showers, Bar/Bat Mitzvahs, Northborough's Annual Winter Ball, and gatherings for various local associations.
Wesson also lived and worked in the city of Springfield, Massachusetts, building hospitals and a home there. In 1966 his Springfield home, owned at the time by the Colony Club, was destroyed by fire.
The summer house he built in Northborough, Massachusetts was on land belonging to his wife's family. He was apprenticed in Northborough at...
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