The first product of the company was a 30 caliber single shot percussion pistol, the Hero. Iver Johnson died of tuberculosis in 1895 and his sons ran the company thereafter. The company was later renamed Iver Johnson and Company, and then Iver Johnson Arms and Cycle Works. In 1871 a Norwegian immigrant, named Iver Johnson, along with another former employee of the Allen & Wheelock Company, Martin Bye, formed Johnson and Bye, Gunsmiths. Mods, if this takes up too much bandwidth (8 posts, with pix), please feel free to delete. Hopefully this brief survey will help answer some of them. Occasionally there are questions about Iver Johnson handguns on the forum.
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