Joseph Glidden
American farmer who patented barbed wire (1813-1906) · United States · On the map · Scientists · Died at 93
Joseph Farwell Glidden was an American businessman and farmer. He was the inventor of the modern barbed wire. In 1898, he donated land for the Northern Illinois State Normal School in DeKalb, Illinois, which was renamed as Northern Illinois University in 1957.
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Lived 1813 to 1906 · aged 93
