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August 18: Connecticut Man with a Rifle Enters Lincoln’s Office – Today in Connecticut History
https://todayincthistory.com/2025/08/18/august-18-connecticut-man-with-a-rifle-enters-lincolns-office/
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It would be easy to hold up Connecticut inventor Christopher Miner Spencer as an archetype of 19th century Yankee ingenuity: Not only was he a man who spent his whole life tinkering with mac…