y does,
however, contain the name of William D. Colt, a patent
attorney.

[9] U. S. patents 165830 and 165831, granted July 20,
1875.

[10] U. S. patent 186838, January 30, 1877.

[11] Patent file 165831, records of the Patent Office in the
National Archives, Washington, D. C.

[12] Crossman, _op. cit._ (footnote 8), January 1888,
p. 32.

[13] _Ibid._, p. 33.

[14] William B. Fowle's "Cash book," commenced January 1,
1873, and closed February 21, 1882, plus "Cash Book #5
Leaves 1 to 20 inclusive. All that were used up to my
failure on August 4, 1883," are in the author's
possession. They contain many entries on the "Watch
Adventure" and later "Aub Watch Co." mixed in with other
entries referring to everything from killing pigs to
extensive stock, bond, and real estate transactions.

[15] U. S. Patent Office digest of assignments, vol. H9V,
p. 13, stored at Franconia, Virginia, Accession no.
57A393.

[16] _Ibid._, p. 76.

[17] August 26, 1876, p. 2., under the heading of Waltham
Items, "Signs of a revival of business at the Watch
Works in Waltham."

The New Sponsor

William Bentley Fowle (fig. 10), new partner with Hopkins and Colt in the
watch, was born in Boston, Massachusetts on July 27, 1826. His father,
William B. Fowle, Senior, a well-known Boston teacher and educator, had
variously been a bookseller and conductor of a "Female Monitorial
School."[18] The junior William B. Fowle we have first located as a
ticket master with the Boston and Worcester Railroad in 1848,[19] and
he retained this listing in the directory through 1851. Starting in 1852
and continuing through 1862, with no indication of employer or
occupation, he had an office at 9 Merchants Exchange. In 1860 and 1862 he
was a member of the Boston Common Council, and was president of that body
in 1865. In 1862, after the second battle of Bull Run, he raised an
infantry company for the 43rd Massachusetts Volunteers and was mustered
in, September 24, 1862, with the rank of captain. From December 7, 1862,
to March 4, 1863, he was commandant of the military post at Beaufort,
North Carolina. He then reported to his regiment. On June 24, 1863, he
was left sick at New Bern, North Carolina, by his company bound for
Fortress Monroe. On July 21 he rejoined his company at Boston,
Massachusetts, in time to be mustered ou