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John Deere was born on February 7, 1804, in Rutland, Vermont, [4] the third son of William Rinold Deere, [5] a merchant tailor, and Sarah Yeats. [6] After a brief educational period at Middlebury College, at age 17 in 1821, he began an apprenticeship with Captain Benjamin Lawrence, a successful Middlebury blacksmith, and entered the trade for himself in 1826.
Deere & Company began when John Deere, born in Rutland, Vermont, United States, on February 7, 1804, moved to Grand Detour, Illinois, in 1836, [ 5 ] to escape bankruptcy in Vermont. Already an established blacksmith, Deere opened a 1,378-square-foot (128 m 2) shop in Grand Detour in 1837, which allowed him to serve as a general repairman in the ...
CNH Industrial N.V. is an American-Italian multinational corporation [ 4 ] with global headquarters in Basildon, United Kingdom, [ 5 ][ 6 ] but controlled and mostly owned by the multinational investment company Exor, which in turn is controlled by the Agnelli family. The company is listed on the New York Stock Exchange.
The National Inventors Hall of Fame is an American not-for-profit organization, founded in 1973, which recognizes individual engineers and inventors who hold a U.S. patent of significant technology. As of 2020, 603 inventors have been inducted, mostly constituting historic persons from the past three centuries, but including about 100 living ...
For 1941 the MD model was introduced as the first row crop diesel-powered tractor; over a decade later, IH's largest competitor, John Deere, introduced a diesel option on their row crop models. The letter series tractors were updated to the "super" series in 1953 (with the exception of the A, which had become a "super" in 1947, and the B and BN ...
Cyrus Hall McCormick (February 15, 1809 – May 13, 1884) was an American inventor and businessman who founded the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company, which later became part of the International Harvester Company in 1902. [1] Originally from the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, he and many members of the McCormick family became prominent ...
Mahindra Tractors (India) . Erkunt (Turkey)(part of Mahindra) . ArmaTrac; Mahindra; Mitsubishi Agricultural Machinery (Japan)(own 33.3%); Trakstar (formerly Mahindra Gujarat and Shaktimaan brands)
The John Deere World Headquarters is a complex of four buildings located on 1,400 acres (570 ha) of land [1] at One John Deere Place, Moline, Illinois, United States. [2] The complex serves as corporate headquarters for agricultural heavy equipment company John Deere .