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.
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