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|name                 = Eliphalet Remington
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|birth_date           = {{birth date|1793|10|28|mf=y}}
|birth_place          = Suffield, Connecticut
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|death_place          = Ilion, New York
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|spouse               = Abigail Paddock
|parents              = Eliphalet Remington, Elizabeth Kilbourn
|children             = Philo Remington. Samuel Remington, Eliphalet Remington
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'''Eliphalet Remington''' (October 28, 1793 &ndash; August 12, 1861) founded what is now known as the Remington Arms Co., L.L.C. Originally the company was known as ''E. Remington'' followed by ''E. Remington & Son'' and then ''E. Remington and Sons''.

==Early years==
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Eliphalet Remington II was born in 1793 in the town of Suffield, Connecticut. He was the second child of four surviving children (but the only son) of Eliphalet and Elizabeth (Kilbourn) Remington, whose family origins lay in Yorkshire, {{wipe|England}}.<ref name="Ware2007">{{cite book|last=Ware|first=Donald L.|title=Remington Army and Navy Revolvers, 1861-1888|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cSYu0x8JCRoC&pg=PR28|year=2007|publisher=University of New Mexico Press|location=Albuquerque, New Mexico|isbn=978-0-8263-4280-5|pages=28–33}}</ref>

Eliphalet II followed in his father's footsteps and entered the [[Engineering:Blacksmith|blacksmith]] trade at the family's rural [[Engineering:Forge|forge]] in Herkimer County, New York.  The original family home at Kinne Corners, New York, built about 1810 and known as Remington House, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|2009a}}</ref>

==Remington Company co-founder==

The younger Remington worked with his father in the forge, and at 23 he hand-made a flintlock rifle using a firing mechanism bought from a [[Engineering:Gunsmith|gunsmith]], but constructing the [[Engineering:Gun barrel|barrel]] himself.<ref name="Marcot2005">{{cite book|last=Marcot|first=Roy M.|title=The History of Remington Firearms|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jAmkAvoUKIEC&pg=PA8|year=2005|publisher=Lyons Press|isbn=978-1-59228-690-4|pages=8–10}}</ref>

The rifle received such a response that Remington decided to manufacture it in quantity. By 1840, when his three sons began to take a more active role in the family business, he formed the firm of E. Remington and Sons, which he headed until his death in 1861.<ref>{{cite book|last=Norton|first=Charles|title=American Inventions and Improvements in Breech-loading Small Arms, Heavy Ordnance, Machine Guns, Magazine Arms, Fixed Ammunition, Pistols, Projectiles, Explosives, and Other Munitions of War: Including a Chapter on Sporting Arms|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zl9GAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA115|year=1880|publisher=Chapin & Gould|location=London|page=115}}</ref>

The company continued to grow and to develop its product and gradually began the manufacture of other sporting goods, such as bicycles. At the present time, the company is known as the Remington Arms Co., Inc.

==Personal life==
Eliphalet Remington was married to Abigail Paddock, and they had three sons, Philo Remington, Eliphalet Remington III, and Samuel Remington, all of whom followed their father into the family business.<ref name="Ware2007"/>

==References==
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==External links==
* [http://www.herkimer.nygenweb.net/remington/remingtonfam.html The Remington Family and Works of Ilion, NY]
* {{findagrave|6607133}}
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