From 1852 to 1854, he served as Sheriff of DeKalb County. In 1851, 1861, 1862, 1869, 1870, 1871, 1872, and 1876 he served on the Board of Supervisors of the County. In 1867, he served on the Executive Committee of DeKalb County Agriculture and Mechanical Society's Seventh Annual Fall Fair, held September 25–28. In 1876, he was the Democratic nominee for Illinois State Senator. From 1861 to 1874, he served as a member of the Board of School Directors, and for 20 years paid the largest school tax of any citizen of the county. He was also one of the largest contributors to the erection of one of the churches. He was also Vice-President of the DeKalb National Bank, Director of the North Western Railroad, and owner of the DeKalb Rolling Mill. To demonstrate the effectiveness of barbed wire, Glidden and his sales agent for the State of Texas, Henry B. Sanborn, developed the "Frying Pan Ranch" inBushland, Potter County, Texas, in 1881. The wire was brought in by wagon from the railhead at Dodge City, Kansas, and the timbers were cut from Palo Duro Canyon and along the Canadian River Valley. A herd of 12,000 head of cattle was branded with the "Panhandle Brand", which the cowboys called "frying pan". The ranch proved the success of the wire and changed ranching. The ranch's headquarters were located at Tecovas Springs, six-miles northwest of Amarillo; the ranch's eastern border became Amarillo's Western Street. Glidden, a former teacher, gave 63 acres (255,000 m²) of his homestead as a site for the Northern Illinois Normal School. The school opened on September 12, 1898, with 139 students and 16 members of the faculty. The school's name was changed to Northern Illinois University in 1957. The town of Glidden, Iowa, is named in his honor. An early handmade specimen of Glidden's "The Winner" on display in the "Fencing Frontiers" exhibit at the Ellwood House Museum in DeKalb, Illinois
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I am no God. I am not trying to be. I have come across many supernatural experiences in my life, and for one-thing, I am a Christian, but understand, I do not wish harm on anyone or further knowledge that I endeavor, for my choice to Research is simply to approach Truth in effort to restore the Gospel. Any distortions of truths can proclaim that False Gods & Angels are Demons in disguise, however, my assumptions are that they are otherworldly in the flesh of Man, bearing no distinct Truths, except by the Fruits they preserve themselves to be. I however do not adorn to any activity in any reasoning whatsoever to boycott or mount aggression onto others through Criticism, but I seek Knowledge to embrace thought onto Christ, providing as best I can to know full-hand that he is indeed my Lord and Savior. I seek only to inform, blog about what's on the Mind other than what I spiritually can place amongst what I may witness due to my own experiences in real-time that have led me to tell about anything ascertainable that has led me to post about what I believe in, to what is happening, not prior to what others believe in as a specific religious Group or Church; not for those should one be seen as for any selfish gain prior to promotion, but those who seek the Truth also. It is about Faith, and my Research prior to the conscientiousness of understanding Christ and looking beyond the boundaries prior to what many Biblical Worksmen of today are trying to block out that holds reasoning to any foreseeable Truths as far as to what's not adhered to in this current reach in Society. Upon this Almanac, it serves as an Almanac Source prior to establishing a means to the Soul, towards the Understanding of the Heart, not of labeling and understanding Internal Organs, but of understanding Characteristics and further spiritual attributes that pertain to who we see ourselves as in Society. |