Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On November 24, 1874, Joseph Glidden received a patent for barbed wire, which altered the development of ranching on the Great ...

DEKALB, Ill. — With the 150th anniversary of Joseph F. Glidden's "The Winner" barbed wire patent approaching, DeKalb, known as "Barb City," is gearing up to celebrate the prosperity the industrious ...

Gabriel Joseph Glidden, infant son of John and Maria (Nava) Glidden of Vernon, died Friday, (November 1, 2002) at Manchester Memorial Hospital. Besides his parents, Gabriel leaves his brother, James; ...

Dennis Peter Glidden, of Chicago, IL, made his transition on April 3, 2005. Loving father of Peter Joseph Glidden and Edward (Christine Robbins) Glidden; proud grandfather of Ann, Alexandra and Eli; ...

John Deere and Joseph Glidden — who invented the self-scouring steel plow and barbed wire, respectively — are well known throughout the world as agricultural innovators. John Franz may not be as ...

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