Elwood Family papers, 1863-1931.

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Elwood Family papers, 1863-1931.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/144489741

Collection mainly concerns Isaac and William Ellwood's barbed wire and Percheron horse breeding businesses (including I.L. Ellwood and Company, Ellwood Wire and Nail Company, I.L. Ellwood Manufacturing Company, and Will Ellwood Company), but also contains significant amounts of material concerning their ranching, farming, and mining interests. The collection consists of the Ellwoods' business correspondence, letter books, financial ledgers, and legal documents. Miscellaneous business files (containing correspondence, legal documents, and financial documents) and miscellaneous financial documents are in this collection as well.

127.14 cubic ft. (218 boxes) + 6 ledgers.

Univerisity of Wyoming. American Heritage Center.

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SNAC Resource ID: 6826322

Univerisity of Wyoming. American Heritage Center.

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Ellwood Family.

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Isaac L. Ellwood (1833-1910) was a co-inventor of barbed wire, industrialist, and rancher during the second half of the nineteenth century. Ellwood was born in Salt Springville, New York and settled in DeKalb, Illinois during the 1850s. He first observed Henry Rose's invention of barbed wire in 1873, then patented his own version of the concept in 1874. Ellwood purchased a half interest in Joseph Glidden's barbed wire patent, and the two men formed the Barbed Fence Company in DeKalb...

Ellwood Wire and Nail Company.

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Ellwood, William L., 1859-1933

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Will Ellwood Company.

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I.L. Ellwood and Company.

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Ellwood, Isaac Leonard, 1833-1910

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Co-inventor and manufacturer of barbed wire, businessman, land owner. Born in 1833 in New York. With his sons, William L. and Erwin P., he began purchasing Texas ranch lands in 1889, including the Spade and Renderbrook ranches. After his death in 1910, his sons, along with A.W. Fisk, managed the estate. Beginning in 1924, portions of the Spade Ranch were sold for farming and colonization. From the description of Isaac L. Ellwood - William L. Ellwood Papers, 1878-1935, 1878-1919. (Tex...

I.L. Ellwood Manufacturing Company.

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