Inventor and businessman Marshall B. Lloyd is born in St. Paul. He was involved in many ventures in Canada and the Dakotas in the late 1800s before moving to Minneapolis in 1900. Once there, he invented machines that wove wire into doormats and, later, the woven-wire bedspring mattress. After becoming the head of the Lloyd Manufacturing Company moved to Menominee, Michigan, and invented a wicker-weaving machine that was thirty times faster than hand-weaving.