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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.
This was 12 years after the celebrated corporate union of the two dynasties, creating International Harvester; the second generation company was headed by Deering’s elder son, Charles, board chairman, and Cyrus McCormick Jr., president. The senior Cyrus had died in 1884, and Deering patriarch, William, began easing up six years later ...
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Sep 21, 2009 · Cyrus Steele McCormick Jr., 76, of Lexington, Va., died Saturday, September 19, 2009 at home. Born January 18, 1933, the son of the late Cyrus S. McCormick and Mary Thacker McCormick Nicely....
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McCormick was born in 1809 in Rockbridge County, Virginia, to Robert McCormick and Mary Ann Hall McCormick, who had migrated from Great Britain. He was the eldest of eight children in a family that was influential in the area. His father was a farmer but also a blacksmith and an inventor. Young McCormick had little formal education, spending his ti...
McCormick's invention would make him prosperous and famous, but he was a religious young man who believed his mission was to help feed the world. For farmers in the early 19th century, harvesting required a large number of laborers. He set out to reduce the number of hands needed for the harvest. He drew on the work of many other people in developi...
A visit to the Midwest convinced McCormick that the future of his reaper was in that sprawling, fertile land instead of the rocky soil in the East. Following more improvements, he and his brother Leander opened a factory in Chicago in 1847 and sold 800 machines that first year. The new venture, the McCormick Harvesting Machine Co., eventually becam...
McCormick died in 1884, and his eldest son, Cyrus Jr., took over as president at only 25 years old. Two years later, though, the business was marked by tragedy. A workers' strike in 1886 that involved the McCormick Harvesting Machine Co. eventually turned into one of the worst labor-related riots in American history. By the time the Haymarket Riote...
Cyrus McCormick is remembered as “The Father of Modern Agriculture" because he made it possible for farmers to expand their small, personal farms into much larger operations. His reaping machine brought an end to hours of tedious fieldwork and encouraged the invention and manufacture of other labor-saving farm implements and machinery. McCormick an...
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May 9, 2024 · Died: May 13, 1884, Chicago, Illinois (aged 75) Cyrus McCormick (born February 15, 1809, Rockbridge county, Virginia, U.S.—died May 13, 1884, Chicago, Illinois) was an American industrialist and inventor who is generally credited with the development (from 1831) of the mechanical reaper.
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Sep 23, 2009 · Cyrus Steele McCormick Jr., 76, of Lexington, Va., died September 19, 2009. Graveside service 11 a.m. on Wednesday, September 23, 2009, at Stonewall Jackson Cemetery. Arrangements by...
Biography. Cyrus McCormick, Jr. | PBS. Cyrus McCormick, Jr., had a famous father. His father (with his grandfather's help) had invented the mechanical reaper and built a large...
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