William C. Edenborn

William C. Edenborn
Born(1848-03-20)March 20, 1848
Plettenberg, Westphalia, Prussia
DiedMay 13, 1926(1926-05-13) (aged 78)
Shreveport, Louisiana, U.S.
OccupationsInventor
Entrepreneur
Businessperson
Known forInvention of barbed wire manufacturing process
Founding of Louisiana Railway and Navigation Company
SpouseSarah Edenborn (née Drain)

William C. Edenborn (1848–1926) was an inventor, steel industrialist, and railroad magnate. He patented the design for a machine for inexpensive manufacture of barbed wire. Edenborn founded the Louisiana Railway and Navigation Company, which operated between Shreveport, Louisiana, and New Orleans, Louisiana. Through a series of mergers and acquisitions, this railroad formed the Louisiana and Arkansas Railroad and eventually part of the Kansas City Southern Railroad.

By the time of his death in 1926, Edenborn was reputed to be the wealthiest resident of Louisiana. The New Orleans Times-Picayune stated that Edenborn was "one of the most colorful and picturesque, and at the same time one of the least known, of the Louisiana captains of industry."

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