Joseph Glidden Research Paper

Joseph Glidden (Barbed Wire)

Glidden was an Englishmen that was born in Charlestown, New Hampshire. He was born on January 18, 1813. Shortly after he was born, him and his family moved to the City of Orleans County, New York. Joseph attended school just as a normal child during his young, adolescent years, but soon after, was needed at home for farming help so he only went during the winter months. When Glidden was a teenager, he discovered that he had an interest in teaching. He attended Vermont’s Middlebury Academy to receive training to fulfill his dream of teaching. After finishing school at the academy, he attended a seminary, or school for teaching of different kinds, in Lima, New York. He later got a job as a teacher in Lima, but the job was short lived, as his love for farming drew him back to Orleans County. He stayed in Orleans County for eight years to help with the family farm. In the year of 1837 he married a young woman by the name of Clarissa Foster, in the city of Clarendon, New York. Then after marriage, moved to Illinois. Clarissa and Glidden had three children together. His children’s names with Clarissa were Virgil Glidden, Homer Glidden, and the third one was not named because it died shortly after birth. There are no specific dates on when his children were born, but …show more content…
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