In what year did Daniel B. Wesson II's great-grandfather co-found the family company?
1852
Smith &amp; Wesson
Smith & Wesson (S&W) is a manufacturer of firearms in the United States.
 The corporate headquarters are in Springfield, Massachusetts.
 Founded in 1852, Smith & Wesson's pistols and revolvers have become standard issue to police and armed forces throughout the world, in addition to their popularity among sport shooters.
Daniel B. Wesson II
Daniel Baird Wesson II (April 1916 – November 1978) was an inventor and firearms maker and the great-grandson of inventor and firearms maker Daniel Baird Wesson who was co-founder of Smith & Wesson.
 Wesson worked in Smith & Wesson, the family company, from 1938 until 1963 when it was acquired by the conglomerate Bangor Punta.
 He left S&W and launched Dan Wesson Arms Inc. in 1968.
 The first Dan Wesson production revolvers, the Model 11 & 12 (later revolvers were marked as D11 & W12) were shipped in August 1970.
Topps Meat Company
Topps Meat Company (Topps Meat Company LLC) was a privately owned family company founded in 1940 by Benjamin Sachs in Manhattan, New York.
 The company later relocated to Elizabeth, New Jersey.
 The company produced and distributed frozen ground beef patties and other meat products processed at its 3000 sqft plant in Elizabeth and posted about $8.8 million a year in sales, according to information reported by Dun & Bradstreet.
 In 2003, the company was purchased by Strategic Investment and Holdings, an investment firm based in Buffalo, New York and by 2007 it was "one of the country’s largest manufacturers of frozen hamburgers."
 In 2007 the company ceased operations following (E. coli) contamination of products and the ensuing recall. Springfield Industrial Institute
The Springfield Industrial Institute in Winchester Park, Springfield, Massachusetts trained future missionaries in carpentry, blacksmithing, foundry work, typesetting, and bookbinding.
 It was founded in 1887 by Daniel B. Wesson as an outgrowth of the School for Christian Workers; it was originally named the New England Industrial and Technological School, and changed its name in 1890 to the Christian Industrial and Technical School. Volcanic Repeating Arms
The Volcanic Repeating Arms Company was a U.S. company formed in 1855 by partners Horace Smith and Daniel B. Wesson to develop Walter Hunt's Rocket Ball ammunition and lever action mechanism.
 Volcanic made an improved version of the Rocket Ball ammunition, and a carbine and pistol version of the lever action gun to fire it.
 While the Volcanic Repeating Arms Company was short lived, its descendants, Smith & Wesson and Winchester Repeating Arms Company, became major firearms manufacturers. Antonia Ax:son Johnson
Antonia Margaret Johnson (] ; born 1943) is the fourth-generation head of the family company Axel Johnson AB, founded by her great-grandfather in 1873.
 In 1982 she succeeded her father as chairman of the board for Axel Johnson AB , Sweden, and Axel Johnson Inc., Stamford, USA. Horace Smith (inventor)
Horace Smith (October 28, 1808 – January 15, 1893) was an American gunsmith, inventor, and businessman.
 He and his business partner Daniel B. Wesson formed two companies named Smith & Wesson, the first of which was financed in part by Oliver Winchester and was eventually reorganized into the Winchester Repeating Arms Company French Congregational Church
The French Congregational Church, known since 1919 as the First Spiritualist Church, is a historic High Victorian Gothic church at 33-37 Bliss Street in Springfield, Massachusetts.
 The pressed brick church was built in 1887, under the sponsorship of Daniel B. Wesson, to provide a place of worship for French Huguenots employed by Smith & Wesson.
 With declining membership, the church was sold in 1909 and used for a time to house a variety of Congregationalist congregations.
 In 1911 it was acquired by the local Spiritualist congregation, who sold it in 2013.
 It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. Daniel Leavitt
Daniel Leavitt (November 16, 1813 – July 27, 1859) was an early American inventor who, with his partner Edwin Wesson, patented the first revolver after Samuel Colt's, and subsequently manufactured one of the first American revolving pistols.
 The innovative design was manufactured only briefly before a patent suit by Colt forced the company to stop producing the Leavitt & Wesson Dragoon revolver.
 But Leavitt's early patents, and those of his partner Wesson, stoked competition and helped drive the technological and manufacturing boom that produced the modern firearms industry. Daniel B. Meginniss Plantation
The Daniel B. Meginniss Plantation was a small cotton plantation of 1610 acre located in Leon County, Florida, United States established by Daniel B. Meginniss.