Rarely do you hear or read of the name William Edenborn, even in Louisiana where he, among other things, with his own resources, built a major railroad from Shreveport to New Orleans. Before he made his home in Winn Parish, however, he had become a multi-millionaire from his inventions related to the manufacture of barbed wire and nails. William C. Edenborn was born in Prussia in 1848 and emigrated to the United States in 1867 when 19 years old. In Prussia, he had served an a