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About Joseph Glidden
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.
Everything about Joseph Glidden →- Occupation
- inventor, farmer, businessperson
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- January 18, 1813
- Died
- October 9, 1906