Cyrus McCormick
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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 th
Cyrus Hall McCormick portrait, held by the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C.
Sketch of 1845 model reaper
McCormick reaper and twine binder in 1884
The U.S. Post Office issued a commemorative stamp honoring McCormick in 1940
McCormick family
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The McCormick family of Chicago and Virginia is an American family of Scottish and Scots-Irish descent that attained prominence and fortune starting with the invention of the McCormick reaper, a machi
Cyrus McCormick
…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. McCormick always claimed credit as the single inventor of the mechanical reaper. He was, however, one of several…
Robert Mc Cormick Jr
Joseph Medill Mc Cormick 1912