The bread bill celebrates Chillicothe's role in food history. But it doesn't mention that an Iowan, Otto Frederick Rohwedder, created the bread-slicing machine used in Bench's bakery. Although the ...

The Anecdote International website provides one version of the story. In 1912, the son of a German immigrant had an idea: People might want to buy bread that was already sliced instead of having to ...

The simple answer lies with Otto Frederick Rohwedder, an American inventor. Born on July 7, 1880, in Iowa, Rohwedder was a man of many talents. He started out training as a jeweller but he also had ...

Otto Rohwedder’s bread-slicing machine is shown shortly after being installed in 1928 at Frank Bench’s Chillicothe Baking Co. in Chillicothe, Mo. The first loaves of its Kleen Maid Sliced Bread were ...

It appeared on the front page of the Chillicothe Constitution-Tribune on July 6, 1928, the day before the first machine-sliced bread would be sold to customers. "The Chillicothe Baking Company," it ...