- Johan Engholm
Anders Johan Engholm (
1 September 1820 –25 October 1918 ) was aweaponsmith from the county of Småland,Sweden .Born in 1820 in Ånaryd, Ödestugu, Sweden, Johan began making weapons some time in the 1840s and made 1, 2, 3, 4, 6 and 8-pipe
pepper-box revolvers . His signatures were J ENGh and IEH. He died in 1918 in Hestra, Ödestugu, Sweden.Several descendants of Johan Engholm emigrated to the US (mainly
Illinois ) in the beginning of the 20th century, where there are many ancestors today.
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