Linus Yale Sr.
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Linus Yale was an American businessman, inventor, metalsmith and politician. He was a founder with his son Linus Yale Jr. of the Yale Lock Company, an American manufacturer of bank locks, and served a
First plant of the Yale Lock Manufacturing Company, started by Linus Yale Jr. and Henry R. Towne
Old Yale Lock Shop, Newport, New York, first location of Linus Sr.'s bank lock shop
A Springfield Model 1861, built by Lamson, Goodnow & Yale for the Union Army, special government contract with Samuel Colt
Bank vault, their manufacture will be continued by his son Linus Yale Jr. through the Yale Lock Company
John Deere (inventor)
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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 wor
Linus Yale Sr.
…listed on the National register of Historic Places. They were the parents of architect Merton Yale Cady, who married to Alice Maria Deere, daughter of John Deere, founder of the John Deere conglomerate. Their granddaughter Jane Mabel Skinner married to Warren Crandall Giles, president of the National League of…
John Deere portrait
Early John Deere plow, c. 1845, made in Grand Detour, Illinois, displayed at The Henry Ford Museum
The John Deere House in Grand Detour, Illinois, built 1836
A monument in Middlebury, Vermont marking the shop in the town where John Deere learned the blacksmith trade