In yesterday's blog, I mentioned this man going to Washington, D.C. and meeting with President Harding at the White House in 1890. Must be an important man.
He was.
From Wikipedia.
Born 1833, died 1910. American rancher, businessman and barbed wire entrepreneur.
Born in New York and went out West during the California Gold Rush. In 1855 moved to DeKalb, Illinois and opened a hardware and implements store.
In 1872, a farmer from nearby Waterman patented a form of barbed wire. Ellwood, Jacob haish and Joseph Glidden improved it and patented a new type of barb wire in 1974. With Glidden, he formed the I.L. Ellwood Manufacturing Company to make it and they became extremely wealthy men.
Ellwood also played a big part in getting the state to open a normal school to train teachers in DeKalb. Today, this place is called Northern Illinois University, Liz and my alma mater.
I.L. Ellwood's house in DeKalb is now a museum. The DeKalb High School team is called the Barbs.
Hung Up On the barbed Wire Again. --DaCoot
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