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John Deere
John Deere was an American blacksmith, businessman, inventor and politician. He founded Deere & Company, one of the largest and leading agricultural and construction-equipment manufacturers in the world. Born in Rutland, Vermont, Deere moved to Illinois and invented the first commercially successful steel plow in 1837.
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business · American blacksmith and manufacturer (1804–1886) · inventor · businessperson · politician · manufacturer · factory owner · also John Deere, John Deere (inventor), Deere
Born 7 February 1804 · Died 17 May 1886 · Q1776475
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1989· 1 entry
Awarded National Inventors Hall of Fame (1989).
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1886· 1 entry
Died 1886-05-17.
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1875· 1 entry
Acquired, expanded and modernized the house now known as John Deere House
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1868· 1 entry
Deere incorporated his business as Deere & Company
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1857· 1 entry
“I will never put my name on a product that does not have in it the best that is in me.”
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1848· 1 entry
Deere dissolved the partnership with Andrus and moved to Moline, Illinois, because the city was a transportation hub on the Mississippi River
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1843· 1 entry
Deere partnered with Leonard Andrus to produce more plows to keep up with demand, but the partnership became strained due to the two men's stubbornness
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1837· 1 entry
Deere developed and manufactured the first commercially successful cast-steel plow
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1836· 1 entry
Deere left Vermont due to hard times and followed Leonard Andrus, a business associate, to Illinois
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1821· 1 entry
Began an apprenticeship with Captain Benjamin Lawrence, a successful Middlebury blacksmith, and entered the trade for himself in 1826
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1804· 1 entry
Born 1804-02-07.
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