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  2. Cyrus McCormick - Wikipedia

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    Cyrus Hall McCormick portrait, held by the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. Cyrus Hall McCormick was born on February 15, 1809, in Raphine, Virginia. He was the eldest of eight children born to inventor Robert McCormick Jr. (1780–1846) and Mary Ann "Polly" Hall (1780–1853). As Cyrus's father saw the potential of the design for ...

  3. 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 ...

  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. African-American slave owners - Wikipedia

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    Order for payment dated 5 March 1818 from the Mayor of New Orleans to reimburse Ms. Rosette Montreuil, a free colored person, for the labor of her mulatto slave, Michel. African American slave owners within the history of the United States existed in some cities and others as plantation owners in the country. [1]

  6. History of agriculture in the United States - Wikipedia

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    America's meat packing industry; a brief survey of its development and economics. (1939) online edition; McCormick, Cyrus (1931). The century of the reaper; an account of Cyrus Hall McCormick, the inventor. Mullendore, William Clinton. History of the United States Food Administration, 1917–1919 (1941) online edition; Nourse, Edwin Griswold.

  7. History of African-American agriculture - Wikipedia

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    The slaves had experience with farming and they used the knowledge they had with growing food and the owners needed them to use the skills they learned from their country before they became slaves. Perhaps the best example of this is rice cultivation in South Carolina , relying on indigenous West African knowledge of growing Oryza glaberrima .

  8. Amerindian slave ownership - Wikipedia

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    The 1863 Emancipation Proclamation only applied to States in rebellion, and did not legally affect slavery in Native American areas that fought for the Confederate States of America. Upon ratification of the 13th Amendment, slaves in the US were emancipated in 1865. [1] In practice, slavery continued in some Native American territories.

  9. Robert McCormick (Virginia inventor) - Wikipedia

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    Robert Hall McCormick (June 8, 1780 – July 4, 1846) was an American inventor who invented numerous devices including a version of the reaper which his eldest son Cyrus McCormick patented in 1834 and became the foundation of the International Harvester Company.