Personal Life
Born in Washington, New Jersey in 1810, he married Sarah Elizabeth Chadwick of Lower Merion Township, Pennsylvania. The couple had two children, a daughter Satella and son Leon Stewart.
During 1870 Sharps and his family moved to Vernon, Connecticut where he continued working on firearms design and started a large trout farming business.
Succumbing to tuberculosis, Sharps died in Vernon, on March 12, 1874.
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