Jacob Haish in 1899. Photo courtesy of Jeff Marshall Jeff Marshall shared this photograph of Jacob Haish with me, and it has become my ...

Robert Glover, the executive director of the Joseph F. Glidden Homestead and Historical Center, was kind enough to take a look at the dyna...

I wrote a similar post on this blog last year , but it needed to be said again: I want to thank everyone who h as taken the time to read...

Remember Sycamore resident Roger Alexander? As a teenager in July 1961, he took what may be some of the last photos of the Haish mansion. He...

The below advertisement, courtesy of Northern Illinois University Archives, boasts Jacob Haish's "S" barb steel wire as "...

This newspaper article, only notated with the date of Dec. 28, 1905, and titled "Jacob Haish, Who gave away 400 Turkeys for Christma...

Jacob Haish | Photo courtesy of Joiner History Room The article below was printed in the Dec. 5, 1885, edition of the Sycamore True Repu...

Jacob Haish published an account of his life, aptly titled "A Reminiscent Chapter from the Unwritten History of Barb Wire Prior to and ...