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Object Description

Object Name

Revolver

Object ID

2015.007.001

Title

Iver Johnson 32 Revolver 5 shot, originally belonging to Albert E. Mufford.

Date

[ca. 1910].

Description

Revolver: Iver Johnson 32 Revolver 5 shot, Secret Service Special; silver with black handle featuring a decorative design on each side with an owl's head; some corrosion at the end of the barrel and along the top; tiny writing along the top of the barrel reads "IVER JOHNSON'S ARMS & CYCLE WORKS. FITCHBURG, MASS., U.S.A. / PAT'D APR 6 86 FEB 15 87 DEC 26 93. PAT'S PENDING." Originally belonged to Albert E. Mufford (1892-1956). This small handgun was used primarily for protection and security when travelling by wagon, horseback or train from Milner to market in New Westminster and back again by Albert Mufford and his brothers. Albert was the youngest son of Millicent (Udy) and Thomas Prior Mufford.

People/Subject

Mufford family

Thomas Prior Mufford, his wife, and their children arrived in Langley, B.C., in 1885 from the goldfields of California, their original destination when they left Cornwall, England, in 1873. They settled on the north end of the Hudson's Bay Company Farm in Fort Langley. Thomas Prior Mufford's brother and his wife, Joseph and Ann (nee Francis) Mufford, ended up settling in Langley, too.

Mufford, Albert Edward (Eddie)

Albert Edward (Eddie) Mufford was born in Milner on July 21, 1892, to parents Thomas Prior and Millicent (nee Udy) Mufford. Eddie married Matilda (Tillie) Ellen Mountain on April 26, 1922. They had two children, William (Bill) and Patricia. One of the Mufford Bros., Eddie raised registered Holsteins. He was an original member of the Fraser Valley Milk Producers' Assoc., and later became a farm machinery agent, even inventing a couple of innovative new pieces of farm machinery. Eddie died at Langley Memorial Hospital on November 16, 1956, at the age of 63, and is buried at Fort Langley Cemetery.

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