Henry D. Perky

(1843-1906) lived at Omaha and Wahoo. Lawyer, manufacturer, known as primary inventor of a machine in 1893 for making shreds or filaments of wheat, he was an early pioneer of the "cookless breakfast food" when he began manufacture of shredded wheat biscuits, first at Denver, Colorado, then at Boston and elsewhere. Consult Denver Post obituary, July 2, 1906, pp. 1, 3 and Sunday /Omaha/ World Herald, August 12, 1906, p. M-6 and National Cyclopedia of American Biography, Vol 24 (1935) 349 and Denver, Colorado Rocky Mountain News, May 23, 1992, p. 119. See also Joseph N. Kane, Famous First Facts, 4th ed (H. W. Wilson, 1981) 131.

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