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BIrth of Cyrus Hall McCormick
Born in Rockbridge County, Virgina on a tobacco plantation. -
New Invention
Invention of the REAPER. -
First Sales
First seven Reapers were sold -
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A Prosperous Time
Over 90 Reapers were sold in 7 years, and all were manually crafted. -
Going Into Mass Production
Cyrus heard about a manufacturing facility in Brockport, NewYork where he decided to start having all Reapers Mass produced. -
Leander McCormick
Cyrus's brother Leander decided to move with Cyrus to Chicago and establish a compnay base there -
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MultiNational Sales
Jhon Henry Mannys reaper beat McCormicks so Cyrus filed a lawsuit fo patent infringement -
A Change of Names
Company changed name to "McCormick Harvesting Machine Company" -
Death of a Titan
yrus McCormick dies due to health comlications, he was also paralyzed waist don froma stoke for the past four years -
International Harvester
McCormick joined with Deering Harvester to create the International Harvester Co. -
CaseIh
Joined with Case Tractors to Create the bigget farming tractor business in the world CASEIH
