Collection, 1866-1958.

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Collection, 1866-1958.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/29040803

Collection contains papers (1878-1903) of Isaac Ellwood, inventor and manufacturer of barbed wire, especially those documents pertaining to contracts to provide barbed wire fencing for various railroad rights of way, and to some of Ellwood's mining interests in Idaho and Mexico (Honest John Mining & Milling Co. and Creston-Colorada Co.) Also included are papers (1866-1900) of Charles W. Marsh, inventor and manufacturer of harvesters; advertising and other documents of various wire and agricultural machinery manufacturers such as Jacob Haish, R.H. Pooler and others (1878-ca. 1927); short histories of barbed wire development and of De Kalb County, Illinois (1923-1958); and 3 photo albums of specimens of early barbed wire (1929).

1.3 cubic ft. (2 boxes)

Univerisity of Wyoming. American Heritage Center.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7267813

Univerisity of Wyoming. American Heritage Center.

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Haish, Jacob, 1826-1926.

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Texas Midland Railroad.

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Honest John Mining and Milling Company.

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St. Louis and Southwestern Railroad Company.

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Hayter, Earl W.

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Earl W. Hayter was a professor at the Northern Illinois State Teachers College (later Northern Illinois University) in De Kalb, Illinois. He studied and wrote about the history of barbed wire fencing, which was first extensively manufactured in the De Kalb area, and about farming and farm machinery. Hayter acquired many documents relating to early inventors and manufacturers of barbed wire and farm machinery. From the description of Collection, 1866-1958. (University of Wyoming, Amer...

Marsh, Charles W., 1834- .

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Pooler, R. H.

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Washburn & Moen Manufacturing Company

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Washburn & Moen made barbed wire. From the description of Remittance form, May 1894. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 165199849 ...

Ellwood Manufacturing.

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Creston-Colorada 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...

American Steel & Wire Co.

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Kankakee and Seneca Railroad.

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