Amarillo, TX, United States
Henry B. Sanborn. In 1875 Henry B. Sanborn (1845-1912) began a long association with the State of Texas when he became the Texas sales agent for Joseph F. Glidden's newly patented invention, barbed wire. A native of New York, Sanborn had become acquainted with Glidden in DeKalb, Illinois, where he h
ad boarded with the Glidden Family and in 1868 had married Glidden's niece, Ellen Wheeler. At the time Glidden and his partner, Judson P. Warner, shipped the first four carloads of wire to Texas, farm
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