Glidden, Joseph Farwell

Glidden, Joseph Farwell

▪ American inventor
born Jan. 18, 1813, Charlestown, N.H., U.S.
died Oct. 9, 1906, De Kalb, Ill.

      American inventor of the first commercially successful barbed wire, which was instrumental in transforming the Great Plains of western North America.

      Glidden attended Middlebury (Vt.) Academy and a seminary at Lima, N.Y., then taught school for several years before returning to his father's farm (1834–42) in Orleans county, N.Y. Working his way west as an itinerant thresher, he settled in De Kalb, Ill., where he acquired his own farm. After seeing a sample of barbed wire at a fair in 1873, he devised improvements upon it. Shortly after receiving patents on the wire in 1874, Glidden joined Isaac L. Ellwood in forming the Barb Fence Company of De Kalb, to manufacture their product, which became widely used to protect crops, water supplies, and livestock from the uncontrolled movement of cattle. The validity of Glidden's patents was upheld during long litigation, and he prospered from the sale of his share of the business to a manufacturing firm in Massachusetts.

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