Winchester Repeating Arms Company Stock Certificate

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Winchester Repeating Arms Company - Issued to Winchester Bennett

Winchester Repeating Arms Company Stock Certificate - Issued to Winchester Bennett

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Product Code: SC2349-2

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This rare Winchester Repeating Arms Company stock certificate was issued to Winchester Bennett who was the grandson (and future president) of Oliver Winchester, the founder of the Winchester Repeating Arms.

Winchester Bennett (named after the gun) was the son of Hanna Jane Winchester and Thomas Grey Bennett. After the passing of Oliver Winchester and his son William, Thomas Grey Bennett would take over the company and become president in 1890.

Winchester Bennett would become president in 1915. He was considered to be a highly strung man and suffered from nervous anxiety. Unable to deal with the stress of a wartime company, he left Winchester and was treated for addiction. His father Thomas Gray Bennett would re-take control from 1918-1919.

Oliver Winchester
Oliver Winchester purchase a division of the failing Smith & Wesson company known as the Volcanic Repeating Arms Company in 1855. He changed the name to the New Haven Arms Company shortly after. The company struggled until his engineer, Benjamin Tyler Henry, improved on the design and what became known as the Henry Rifle in 1860. After the success of the Henry Rifle, he changed the company name to Winchester Repeating Arms Company.

Pioneers quickly flocked to the Winchester rifle and it became known as "The Gun that Won the West."

Issued in 1929.