Full Text of HR0424 102nd General Assembly
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| 1 | | HOUSE RESOLUTION
| 2 | | WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of | 3 | | Representatives wish to commemorate the 160th anniversary of | 4 | | the founding of the Joseph F. Glidden Homestead in DeKalb in | 5 | | 1861; and | 6 | | WHEREAS, The Glidden Homestead and Historical Center sits | 7 | | on the site where Joseph Farwell Glidden invented barbed wire | 8 | | with his second wife, Lucinda; he lost his first wife in | 9 | | childbirth in 1846 and his three children during an epidemic a | 10 | | year later in 1847; and
| 11 | | WHEREAS, Joseph Glidden, along with hardware merchant | 12 | | Isaac Ellwood and lumberman Jacob Haish, crafted the idea for | 13 | | a "barbed-wire" fence upon witnessing a fence board with | 14 | | projecting brad points at a county fair in September of 1873; | 15 | | and
| 16 | | WHEREAS, Joseph Glidden and Lucinda experimented in the | 17 | | home's kitchen using a coffee mill to create the first-ever | 18 | | strand of barbed wire; and | 19 | | WHEREAS, At the age of 61, Joseph Glidden traveled to | 20 | | Chicago to patent his new invention on November 24, 1874; and |
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| 1 | | WHEREAS, Joseph Glidden and Isaac Elwood then built the | 2 | | world's first barbed wire factory in 1874; and | 3 | | WHEREAS, In 1857, Joseph Glidden, Isaac Elwood, and Jacob | 4 | | Haish, along with journalist Clinton Rosette, founded what is | 5 | | now Northern Illinois University with part of the land where | 6 | | the idea for barbed wire originated; and | 7 | | WHEREAS, Later, Joseph Glidden served until his death in | 8 | | 1906 at the age of 93 as publisher for founding editor Clinton | 9 | | Rosette's Daily Chronicle newspaper in DeKalb; and | 10 | | WHEREAS, By the time of Joseph Glidden's death, Isaac | 11 | | Ellwood estimated that their factory had produced enough | 12 | | barbed wire to circle the earth 17 times, earning DeKalb the | 13 | | nickname of "The Barbed City" to this day; and
| 14 | | WHEREAS, Barbed wire played a significant role in settling | 15 | | the American West, where it became popular due to the lack of | 16 | | stone or wood available for fencing crops and livestock; and
| 17 | | WHEREAS, The Illinois State Historical Society has erected | 18 | | a historical marker commemorating barbed wire manufacturing at | 19 | | the Glidden Homestead; and
| 20 | | WHEREAS, Members of the Glidden family have lived on the |
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| 1 | | Glidden Homestead from the time it was built in 1861 until | 2 | | 1998, when it became a museum; therefore, be it
| 3 | | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ONE | 4 | | HUNDRED SECOND GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | 5 | | we commemorate the 160th anniversary of the Joseph F. Glidden | 6 | | Homestead; and be it further
| 7 | | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 8 | | presented to the Joseph F. Glidden Homestead and Historical | 9 | | Center as an expression of our esteem and respect.
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