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  2. Cyrus McCormick - Wikipedia

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    The Cyrus McCormick Farm, operated by other family members after Cyrus and Leander moved to Chicago, was ultimately donated to Virginia Tech, which operates the core of the property as a free museum, and other sections as an experimental farm. A marker memorializing Cyrus McCormick's contribution to agriculture had been erected near the main ...

  3. McCormick reaper - Wikipedia

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    The McCormick Reaper was designed by Robert McCormick in Walnut Grove, Virginia. However, Robert became frustrated when he was unable to perfect his idea. His son Cyrus worked to complete the project. The son obtained the patent for "The McCormick Reaper" in 1834. [4] [5] The McCormick reaper of 1834 had several key elements: [6] [7] a main ...

  4. Cyrus McCormick Farm - Wikipedia

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    The grist mill, built prior to 1800, was used to grind wheat for flour. The blacksmith shop was used to build and repair all the farm implements needed by the McCormick family and was where Cyrus McCormick engineered his reaper. Slave quarters served as the homes for the forty-one slaves that the McCormick family owned.

  5. McCormick family - Wikipedia

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    Cyrus Hall McCormick Sr., founder of the McCormick business dynasty. Robert McCormick Jr. (1780–1846) was an American inventor who lived in rural Virginia. [1] His maternal grandparents were Scottish immigrants, George Sanderson and Catharine (née Ross) Sanderson, and paternal grandparents were Thomas (1702–1762) and Elizabeth (née Carruth) McCormick, Presbyterian immigrants born in ...

  6. John Henry Manny - Wikipedia

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    John Henry Manny (1825–1856) was the inventor of the Manny Reaper, one of various makes of reaper used to harvest grain in the 19th century. Cyrus McCormick III, in his Century of the Reaper, called Manny "the most brilliant and successful of all Cyrus McCormick's competitors," [1] a field of many brilliant people.

  7. List of inventions named after people - Wikipedia

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    McCormick reaper – Cyrus McCormick; Melba toast, Peach Melba, Melba sauce – Nellie Melba; Melvillade – Robert Melville; Mercator projection – Gerardus Mercator; Mercerised cotton – John Mercer; Michelson interferometer – Albert Abraham Michelson; Mills bomb – William Mills; Minié ball, Minié rifle – Claude-Étienne Minié [22]

  8. Cyrus McCormick Jr. - Wikipedia

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    Cyrus Hall McCormick Jr. (May 16, 1859 – June 2, 1936) was an American businessman. He was president of the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company from 1884 to 1902. [1] His tenure was marked by bitter conflict with the union, culminating in the death of two striking workers on May 3, 1886, the event which precipitated the Haymarket affair.

  9. Leander J. McCormick - Wikipedia

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    In 1847, Leander helped Cyrus set up a factory in Cincinnati, Ohio that produced 100 machines. In fall 1848, he moved to Chicago with his wife and infant son to join Cyrus in setting up an even larger factory. Brother William joined them in 1850 in a business in run by Cyrus to manufacture reapers and sell them across the midwestern United States.