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Phineas Vaughan's Shop and Home
Glidden/Vaughan Wire Making Machine
Blacksmith Phineas W. Vaughan
played a pivotal role in helping his friend Joseph F. Glidden invent "The Winner," one of the most-widely used types of barbed wire.
Ultimately, he and Glidden would patent a hand-operated machine for making
barbed wire (see link above to copy of patent).
The site of
Vaughan's original blacksmith shop
downtown DeKalb (north side between
Third and Fourth streets) is marked with
a horseshoe embedded in the concrete
sidewalk. Local historians believe it is
an original horseshoe from Vaughan's
shop.
The exterior
of Phineas Vaughan's Blacksmith
Shop (above, 1897) and interior (at
right, date unknown), DeKalb, IL. Photos by Floyd Ritzman, courtesy of
Joiner History Room, Sycamore,
IL. |
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Phineas Vaughan's home
on Main Street (Lincoln
Highway), north Side between
Third Street
and Fourth Street.
Later moved to North Second
Street adjacent to Russell Smith
Garage,
212 N. Second St. Photo
by Floyd Ritzman, courtesy
of Joiner History Room,
Sycamore, IL. |
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