Charles G.W. Foehl – Died (73)
Sept 1840 – October 4, 1913

• 1840 born in Würtemberg, Germany
• 1859 immigrated to the United States
• apprentice to Philadelphia gunsmith John Wurfflein
• worked for Henry Deringer, Jr.
• Foehl’s first firearms patent, U.S. patent #139,461
• 1889 formed Foehl & Weeks Firearms Manufacturing Company
• 1891 U.S. patent  #447,219
• 1893 the company went bankrupt
• 1893 became Columbian Firearms Manufacturing Company
  – (Foehl managed the company)
• 1897 Columbian went out of business
• 1913 Died age of 73

Inventor of Foehl & Weeks mini revolvers