Daniel Baird Wesson was an American inventor and firearms designer. He helped develop several influential firearm designs over the course of his life; he and Horace Smith were the co-founders of two companies named "Smith & Wesson", the first of which was eventually reorganized into the Winchester Repeating Arms Company and the latter of which became the modern Smith & Wesson.
- Occupation
- inventor, entrepreneur, design engineer
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- May 18, 1825
- Died
- August 4, 1906
