One of the most common wires, Glidden's Winner, is named for barbed wire's inventor, Joseph Glidden, and the 1874 court case in which he successfully defended his patent. Barbed wire's glory days were ...

Glidden was an American farmer originally from Charlestown, New Hampshire. After growing up in Clarendon, New York, and finishing school, he returned to his father’s farm to work, according to ...