January 16, 1861 – ??

• 1861 – born in Würtemburg, Germany
• 1895 – listed as a machinist in the Philadelphia city directory
• 1897 – founded his firearms company (named it “Henry M. Kolb”)
• 1910 became Henry M. Kolb & Company
  – Reginald F. Sedgley becoming manager
• 1910  took out two patents on the Baby Hammerless revolver
  #954,190  for a “firing-pin for hammers for firearms”
  #954,191  for a means of mounting and locking the cylinder
• 1916 – Kolb sold the Firearms Company to Sedgley