death_place death_date birth_place birth_date spouse article_title name partner occupation
springfield , massachusetts 15 january 1893 cheshire , massachusetts 28 october 1808 eliza hebbard foster ; eliza hebbard jepson ; mary lucretia horace smith -lrb- inventor -rrb-
 horace smith daniel b. wesson inventor , industrialist
horace smith -lrb- inventor -rrb-

horace smith -lrb- october 28 , 1808 -- january 15 , 1893 -rrb- was an american gunsmith , inventor , and businessman .
he and his business partner daniel b. wesson formed two companies named smith & wesson , the first of which was financed in part by oliver winchester and was eventually reorganized into the winchester repeating arms company
