Daniel B. Wesson
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Daniel B. Wesson (born Worcester, Massachusetts, May 181825 - died August 4 1906) partnered with Horace Smith in Norwich, Connecticut in the early 1850s to develop the first repeating rifle, the Volcanic rifle. Daniel Wesson also built a summer home in Northborough, MA 01532. It was called Wesson Terrace. Now called White Cliffs, it is owned by the La Cava family and is a hotel often used for weddings and wedding showers. You can see the home as it looks now by going to www.whitecliffs.com. Wesson also lived and worked in the city of Springfield, MA., building hospitals and a home there. In 1966 his Springfield home, owned at the time by the Colony Club, was destroyed by fire.
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