Warren Giles
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Warren Crandall Giles was an American professional baseball executive. Giles spent 33 years in high-level posts in Major League Baseball as general manager and club president of the Cincinnati Reds an
Giles in 1962
Plaque of Warren Giles at the Baseball Hall of Fame
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
Warren Giles
…in 1943. She was the daughter of Moline mayor, Charles T. Porter, President of Moline Paint Manufacturing Company, and the great-granddaughter of John Deere, founder of John Deere Her grandfather was architect Merton Yale Cady, grandson of inventor Linus Yale Sr. Giles never remarried. His son, Bill, has…
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