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ST. from the Columbia Law School in 1870.

Later he practiced law in Chicago and Providence, R. I. In 1881 President Garfield appointed him United States District Judge for Rhode Island, and later President Arthur made him a Circuit Judge of the United States. He was elected to the Senate in 1913 for the term 1913-1919, and re-elected in the latter year for the term 1919-1925. A Republican in politics. COLT, SAMUEL, an American inventor; born in Hartford, Conn., July 19, 1814. He had a common school education and was employed in his father's textile mill; but went to sea as a sailor boy when aged 15. His attention being drawn to fire-arms while at sea, he began to perfect a revolver and patented it in 1835. Its great success led to the erection by him at Hartford of one of the most extensive weapon factories in the world. He died in Hartford, Jan. 10, 1862.

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