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'''William Edenborn''' (March 20, 1848 May 13, 1926)<ref name=findagrave>{{cite web|url=http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=19826616|title=William Edenborn|author=[[Eric Brock]]|publisher=Findagrave.com|accessdate=October 11, 2019}}</ref> was a [[business]]man, [[inventor]], and philanthropist, born in Plettenberg in the Westphalia region of the Ruhr River Valley of the former [[Prussia]]. He immigrated to the United States in 1866 as a "financially poor youth yet rich in vision and courage"<ref name=obit>Maude Hearn O'Pry, ''Chronicles of Shreveport and Caddo Parish,'' 1928, p. 349.</ref> and eventually became a naturalized American citizen.
'''William Edenborn''' (March 20, 1848 May 13, 1926)<ref name=findagrave>{{cite web|url=http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=19826616|title=William Edenborn|author=[[Eric Brock]]|publisher=Findagrave.com|accessdate=October 11, 2019}}</ref> was a [[business]]man, [[inventor]], and philanthropist, born in Plettenberg in the Westphalia region of the Ruhr River Valley of the former [[Prussia]]. He immigrated to the United States in 1866 as a "financially poor youth yet rich in vision and courage"<ref name=obit>[[Maude Hearn O'Pry]], ''Chronicles of Shreveport and Caddo Parish,'' 1928, p. 349.</ref> and eventually became a naturalized American citizen.
==Background==
==Background==