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Glidden Genealogy - The Fit of the Glidden Genes

Compiled by Doris (Bobzin) Glidden, edited by Charles Edward Glidden,
this set includes more than 29,000 ancestors and descendants
of Charles Glidden and related individuals from 14 generations!

      
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Read about Glidden (and related family members) inventions:
Barbed Wire, Typewriter, Paint, Vacuum Cleaning Machine, Forerunner to Jello, Coffee Break, Compounded Glidden Liver Pills as a Pharmacist,
Machine for Heeling Shoes, Early X-Ray Researcher,
Cardiac catheterization in concert with colleagues

Glidden accomplishments and related family members:
1786:   Gave birth to triplets who reached adulthood
1815:   Served as a missionary to Siam
1865:   From the Northern troops, present at General Lee’s surrender of the       
              Confederate Army
1869:   Glidden family member present at the Golden Spike Ceremony
               of the Trans-Continental Railroad
1909:   Drove a car around the world
1944:   Present at Iwo Jima at the raising of the U.S. flag
2000:   Influential in the naming of 2 National Historical Sites
2001:   Helped fund a Buddhist Center Temple in the Catskill Mountains of New York
    
                      2 –Volume Boxed Hardbound Book Set
              
Volume I = 104 pages   Volume II = 804 pages 

 

 

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