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Cyrus McCormick
Cyrus Hall McCormick was an American inventor and businessman who founded the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company, which became part of the International Harvester Company in 1902. Originally from the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, he and many members of the McCormick family became prominent residents of Chicago.
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business · American inventor and businessman (1809–1884) · inventor · journalist · businessperson · peace activist · entrepreneur · farmer · engineer · also Cyrus McCormick, C. H. McCormick, Cyrus Hall McCormick, McCormick
Born 15 February 1809 · Died 13 May 1884 · Q719357
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1999· 1 entry
1992· 1 entry
“Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Education”
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1976· 1 entry
Awarded National Inventors Hall of Fame (1976).
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1940· 1 entry
To commemorate Cyrus Hall McCormick
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1923· 1 entry
Donating $8 million (over $160 million in modern equivalents) to hospitals, disaster and relief agencies, churches, youth activities and educational institutions, and becoming the leading benefactress of Presbyterian Chu
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1886· 1 entry
After his death, although it moved to Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood in 1975 and began sharing facilities with the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago
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1884· 1 entry
Died 1884-05-13.
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1879· 1 entry
Brother Leander changed the company's name from "Cyrus H
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1872· 2 entries
McCormick served a four-year term on the Illinois Democratic Party's Central Committee
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McCormick purchased a religious newspaper, the Interior, which he renamed the Continent and became a leading Presbyterian periodical
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1871· 1 entry
The factory burned down in the Great Chicago Fire, but McCormick rebuilt and it reopened in 1873
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1870· 1 entry
Alice McCormick was born March 15, 1870, and died less than a year later on January 25, 1871.
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1869· 2 entries
McCormick donated $10,000 to help Dwight L
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In 1869, McCormick donated $10,000 to help Dwight L.
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1864· 1 entry
And was soundly defeated by Republican John Wentworth
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1863· 1 entry
Robert McCormick III was born October 5, 1863, and died January 6, 1865.
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1861· 1 entry
However, Hussey's patent was extended but McCormick's was not
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1859· 2 entries
Cyrus Hall McCormick Jr. was born May 16, 1859.
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A year in which he endowed four professorships
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1858· 2 entries
49-year-old Cyrus McCormick married Nancy "Nettie" Fowler
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On January 26, 1858, 49-year-old Cyrus McCormick married Nancy "Nettie" Fowler.
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1856· 1 entry
McCormick's factory was producing more than 4,000 reapers each year, mostly sold in the Midwest and West
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1851· 2 entries
And he was elected a corresponding member of the French Academy of Sciences in 1878 "as having done more for the cause of agriculture than any other living man
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McCormick traveled to London to display a reaper at the Crystal Palace Exhibition
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1849· 1 entry
And joined the company to take care of financial affairs
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1847· 1 entry
After their father's death, Cyrus and his brother Leander J
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1839· 1 entry
McCormick started doing more public demonstrations of the reaper, but local farmers still thought the machine was unreliable
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1834· 1 entry
Two years after having been granted a patent for a self-sharpening plow
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1809· 1 entry
Born 1809-02-15.
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