WASHBURN, Ichabod [1798-1868] -- American industrialist
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Founder of the great wire industry in Worcester, MA, which is now a prominent factor in the American Steel and Wire Company, son of Ichabod and Sylvia (Bradford) Washburn.
Washburn & Moen Co., world's largest wire manufacturer.
One of the major producers of the barbed wire that "tamed the West". 
Bookmarks (off-site links) |
- Biographical & genealogy
- Ichabod Washburn, Autobiography Ichabod W. - AFN:1P9T-VG7
- Ichabod Washburn A short biographical account extracted from Genealogical and Personal Memoirs of Worchester County, by Ellery Bicknell Crane
- Business
- Barbed wire
Washburn's innovative product helped settle the West
- barbed wire
- Earl Hayter: Barbed Wire Fencing ITS RISE AND INFLUENCE IN THE WESTERN STATES
- Notes on the early history of Washburn and Moen A chronology: 1840-1859
- Illinois State Historical Markers: Washburn and Moen Manufacturing Company
- Barbed wire
Washburn's innovative product helped settle the West
- Memorials
- Washburn University
- Washburn University Topeka, KS. " ...the name of the institution was changed [from Lincoln College] to Washburn College in recognition of a donation received from Deacon Ichabod Washburn."
- What's an Ichabod? Apparantly some sort of tradition at Washburn U.
- WU School of Law
- Washburn University School of Law
- WASHLAW WEB -- Washburn University School of Law A most useful collection of links!
- Worcester Polytechnic Institute
WPI
- Tech Bible - History of WPI: part 1 of 8
- The History and Traditions of WPI
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The Two Towers Tradition
"The towers of these two buildings came to symbolize the balance of theory and practice that has been at the
heart of WPI's educational philosophy." - The WPI Board of Trustees
- WPI Virtual Tour - The Washburn Shops This Washburn contribution led to naming the Institute for him
- Institutionalizing the Mechanics Ideal: Early History of WPI WPI=Worcester Polytechnic Institute
- Ichabod Washburn Young Alumni Award for Professional Achievement
- Celebrate 2000 community section: Long Washburn tradition keeps Ichabod at home 09/28/99 Ichabod Washburn is the team mascot!
- Washburn University
- Gallery
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