Joseph Farwell Glidden (January 18 1813 - October 9, 1906) was an American farmer who patented barbed wire, a product that forever altered the development of the American West. Glidden was born in Charlestown, New Hampshire, his family later moving to Clarendon, New York. In 1843, he moved to Illinois with his wife Clarissa Foster. She and her two sons died after the move, and Glidden married Lucinda Warne in 1851. Wikipedia
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