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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 ...
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 ...
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 murder of two striking workers on May 3, 1886– the event which precipitated the Haymarket affair .
Cyrus McCormick: 1809 Mechanical reaper [15] 1976 Enrico Fermi: 1901 Nuclear fission [18] 1976 Rudolf Diesel: 1858 Internal-combustion engine [19] 1976 Charles Hard Townes * 1915 Laser [20] 1977 Charles Steinmetz: 1865 Alternating current [21] 1977 Edwin H. Land: 1909 Polaroid [22] 1977 George Eastman: 1854 Photography [23] 1977 Lee De Forest ...
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Anita Eugenie McCormick Blaine (1866-1954) was an American philanthropist and political activist. An heir to the McCormick Reaping Machine Works fortune built by her father, Cyrus McCormick (1809–1884), Blaine funded the launch of Chicago's Francis W. Parker Elementary School, the New World Foundation, the Progressive Party (1948), and the radical New York newspaper, the National Guardian.
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.
A six-year age gap isn't exactly out of the ordinary in a relationship, but Miley Cyrus feels it with boyfriend Maxx Morando — in a positive way.. The pop superstar, 32, opened up about her ...