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American gunsmith and manufacturer

For the British gunsmith, see Alexander Henry (gunsmith).

Benjamin Tyler Henry (March 22, 1821 – June 8, 1898^[1]) was an American gunsmith and manufacturer.

Biography of Benjamin Tyler Henry

He was the inventor of the Henry rifle, the first reliable lever-action repeating rifle.

Henry was born in Claremont, New Hampshire, in 1821. He apprenticed to a gunsmith as a young man and worked his way up to shop foreman at the Robins & Lawrence Arms Company of Windsor, Vermont, where he worked with Horace Smith and Daniel B.

Wesson on a rifle known as the "Volitional Repeater".^[2]

In 1854, Horace Smith and Daniel B. Wesson formed a new company with Courtlandt Palmer, and further