Meet the American who developed sliced bread, Otto Rohwedder, the hard-luck hawkeye.

Otto Rohwedder pioneered an innovation that has set the standard for all others.

Rohwedder, a Davenport, Iowa, native, is the inventor of sliced bread.

It’s the best thing since… It’s the best thing, according to popular opinion.


“Sliced bread is the standard of all innovation, past, present, and future,” stated Ed Douglas, a businessman, local historian, and county commissioner from Chillicothe, Missouri.

MEET THE AMERICAN WHO FIRST RECORDED THE BLUES, THE NATION’S ORIGINAL POP DIVA, MAMIE SMITH.

In July 1928, the Chillicothe Baking Co. produced the world’s first loaves of bread, which were cut and packaged immediately out of the oven thanks to Rohwedder’s innovative process.

It was a year of rapid developments in the food business, with Fleer Co. inventing bubble gum only a month later.