After spending his youth apprenticed as a sailor on the India-bound ship Corvo, this man used those wax figures in a traveling road show, advertising himself as a doctor from Calcutta and doing tricks with laughing gas for crowds.
After this man's death, his wife Elizabeth Jarvis commissioned the architect of the Mark Twain House, Edward Potter, to erect an Episcopal church as a memorial. He hired sculptor Hiram Powers to create wax figures based on the Divine Comedy. After spending his youth apprenticed as a sailor on the India-bound ship Corvo, this man used those wax figures in a traveling road show, advertising himself as a doctor from Calcutta and doing tricks with laughing gas for crowds. His brother John wrote a textbook on double-entry bookkeeping and was convicted for murdering the printer Samuel Adams over a book debt, which led to a famous trial. This man built a town featuring a building with a giant blue onion dome with gold stars on it; that town has recently been approved to be a national park in Connecticut. His major invention had an early Dragoon model and was improved by Samuel Walker, a captain who used it while serving in the Texas Rangers. For 10 points, name this American inventor who founded the Patent Fire-Arms Manufacturing Company, which produced his .44-caliber revolver.
After this man's death, his wife Elizabeth Jarvis commissioned the architect of the Mark Twain House, Edward Potter, to erect an Episcopal church as a memorial.
Samuel Colt