page_title: Elizabeth Jarvis Colt
section_title: Retirement and death
hierarchical_section_title: Elizabeth Jarvis Colt / Retirement and death
caption_attribution_description: English: Samuel Colt memorial in Cedar Hill Cemetery in Hartford, Connecticut. Photo taken January 2020.
context_page_description: Elizabeth Jarvis Colt was the widow and heir of firearms manufacturer Samuel Colt, founder of Colt's Manufacturing Company.
context_section_description: She sold her interest in Colt's Manufacturing Company in 1901. She was involved in society life in Hartford, CT and President of the Hartford Women's Auxiliary.
  Colt died of paralysis in Newport, Rhode Island on August 23, 1905. The Hartford Courant ran a full-page obituary of Colt on the front page of the newspaper the following day, calling her the "First Lady of Connecticut". It was the first time that the newspaper recognized the death of a woman in this manner.
  In her will, Elizabeth Colt left a collection of nearly 1,000 objects, artworks, firearms and documents to the Wadsworth Atheneum as well as a fund to build the Colt Memorial. The Elizabeth Hart Jarvis Colt Memorial Wing was the first American museum wing bearing the name of a woman patron.
  She is buried along with her husband and children in Hartford's historic Cedar Hill Cemetery.
caption: Colt memorial in Cedar Hill Cemetery
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