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	Cyrus McCormick - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Cyrus Hall McCormick (February 15, 1809 - May 13, 1884) of Virginia was an Irish American farmer, inventor, businessman, marketer and newspaper editor.
		The McCormick family farm near Raphine became a test farm for the school known as Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (better known as "Virginia Tech").
		Cyrus McCormick's father, Robert Hall McCormick, invented numerous labor-saving devices for agricultural use, and by 1831 had produced what would become known as the reaper.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cyrus_McCormick (571 words)

	American National Business Hall of Fame, ANBHF Cyrus McCormick (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Cyrus McCormick was born on February 15, 1809 on a farm in the Valley of Virginia, 18 miles away from the little town of Lexington.
		McCormick held his own in the competition as the rivalries successfully moved from the mower to the self rake reaper to the harvester and finally to the harvester-binder.
		Cyrus McCormick died in 1884 and was buried in a Chicago which had grown to sixty times the size it was when he first arrived.
	www.anbhf.org /laureates/mccormick.html (2763 words)

	Cyrus McCormick - MSN Encarta
		Cyrus Hall McCormick was born in Rockbridge County, Virginia.
		At first McCormick's machines were produced in small lots for local use in Virginia.
		McCormick continued to improve the machine, patenting inventions such as the self-rake and twine binder.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761553789/McCormick_Cyrus_Hall.html (143 words)

	Invent Now \| Hall of Fame \| Search \| Inventor Profile
		Cyrus Hall McCormick invented the mechanical reaper, which combined all the steps that earlier harvesting machines had performed separately.
		Born in Rock bridge County, Virginia, Cyrus McCormick derived his interest in invention from his father; a Virginia landowner who patented several improved farming implements and worked without success for many years to perfect a mechanical reaper.
		McCormick amassed a large fortune and invested widely in later years in railroad and mining enterprises.
	www.invent.org /hall_of_fame/101.html (208 words)

	Cyrus Hall McCormick: Reaper Man (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The invention of the reaper by Cyrus Hall McCormick sparked a mechanical revolution in agriculture.
		Cyrus established the necessary connections in 1845 with Backrus Fitch and Co., of Brockport, New York, and A. Brown of Cincinnati, Ohio, to sell reapers in upper New York state and Ohio.
		McCormick was awarded a gold medal for "the excellence and originality of the reaper." As a result of that fame, Cyrus traveled to European countries to survey farming conditions and to study the adaptation of the reaper to European fields.
	www.lib.niu.edu /ipo/1992/ihy921213.html (714 words)

	AllRefer.com - Cyrus Hall McCormick (Technology, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Cyrus Hall McCormick 1809–84, inventor of the reaper, b.
		The first public demonstration of the reaper, as constructed by Cyrus, took place in July, 1831, and was a success, although he did not patent it until after Obed Hussey announced his invention in 1834.
		McCormick's reaper contained the straight reciprocating knife, guards, reel, divider, platform, main-drive wheel, and other innovations that are essential features of every satisfactory harvesting machine.
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	Inventor of the Week: Archive
		Cyrus McCormick, the "Father of Modern Agriculture," made one of the most significant contributions to the United States' prosperity, when he invented the horse-drawn reaper in 1831.
		Meanwhile, McCormick's father, Robert, was working from time to time in the farm's smithy on an invention of his own, a horse-drawn reaping machine.
		McCormick had singlehandedly increased farms' potential yield at least tenfold, with a minimum of effort by farmers.
	web.mit.edu /invent/iow/mccormick.html (641 words)

	BookRags: Cyrus H. McCormick Biography
		Cyrus Hall McCormick was born in Rockbridge County, Virginia, the eldest son of Robert and Mary Ann McCormick.
		The elder McCormick patented a thresher and other farm machines, but none of them were commercially successful, and his attempts to build a mechanical reaper, a device capable of cutting grain, ended in failure.
		McCormick, aware that the rapid opening of the Midwest and Great Plains to settlement would lead to demand for farm machines, and realizing the strategic importance of a midwestern location, opened a factory in Chicago in 1847, where he produced 800 reapers the first year.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/cyrus-h-mccormick-woi (628 words)

	South Carolina State Library McCormick (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		McCormick County and its county seat, the town of McCormick, were named for inventor Cyrus Hall McCormick (1809-1884).
		Some of the early inhabitants were massacred by Cherokee Indians at Long Cane in 1760, and the British subsequently built Fort Charlotte to protect the region; this fort was one of the first seized by the Americans in the Revolutionary War.
		The Dorn Gold Mine, which later also produced manganese, was bought by Cyrus McCormick in 1871; he donated land for the town, which was named for him in 1882.
	www.state.sc.us /scsl/mcco.html (183 words)

	Biography of Cyrus McCormick
		Robert McCormick (the grandfather of Cyrus McCormick) moved from Cumberland County, Pennsylvania in 1779 with his wife Martha and their 5 children.
		Cyrus Hall McCormick (1809-1884) conceived plans for his reaper, built and tested it, and then remodled it for public trial, all within six weeks time.
		McCormick's "Virginia Reaper" hastened the westward expansion of the United States, and this expansion produced new markets for the reaper.
	www.vaes.vt.edu /steeles/mccormick/bio.html (688 words)

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		The selection of recipients for the Cyrus Hall McCormick-Jerome Increase Case Gold Medal Award is made by the M-111 Jury of Awards Committee, consisting normally of the five immediate active past presidents of the Society, with final approval by the M-102 Awards Coordinating Committee.
		Portraits of Cyrus Hall McCormick, inventor of the self-rake reaper, and Jerome Increase Case, developer of the "reliable" threshing machine, are emblazoned on the medal's gold face.
		The award was renamed in 1986 as the Cyrus Hall McCormick-Jerome Increase Case Gold Medal Award to reflect the image of its current sponsor, Case IH.
	www.asabe.org /awards/major/cyrus.html (454 words)

	McCormick Cyrus Hall - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		McCormick Cyrus Hall - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		McCormick, Cyrus Hall (1809-1884), American inventor and manufacturer, born in Rockbridge County, Virginia.
		Hall, (Marguerite) Radclyffe (1883-1943), novelist and poet, best known for her novel The Well of Loneliness (1928), which was banned after a...
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	Cyrus McCormick-International Harvester Company Collection of the Wisconsin Historical Society
		Cyrus H. McCormick (1809-1884) was an industrialist and inventor of the first commercially successful reaper, a horse-drawn machine to harvest wheat.
		Cyrus made several changes to his father's design and successfully demonstrated his reaper at Steele's Tavern, Virginia in July of 1831.
		Cyrus also made several trips to the Midwest, demonstrating his reaper and attempting to contract with local manufacturers.
	www.wisconsinhistory.org /libraryarchives/ihc/cyrus.asp (462 words)

	McCormick Hall
		McCormick Hall is the administrative hub of the campus, housing the President's office, Vice President offices, the Institutional Advancement department, and the Business office.
		Built in 1887, McCormick Hall marked the first building erected on campus through the generosity of the Cyrus Hall McCormick family.
		Willis in construction of McCormick Hall (and later Virginia Hall) are displayed in the Tusculum College archives.
	www.tusculum.edu /tour/campus/mccormick.html (219 words)

	Cyrus Hall McCormick: His Life and Work (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Told in spellbinding terms are the mechanical genius's early life on the farm, the events leading to the invention, as well as the role of the invention during the Civil War and its effect on the world scene.
		Cyrus Hall McCormick was the inventor of the reaper which was designed to lighten the drudgery of the agricultural harvest and to reduce the need for farm labor.
		It was a major invention of the nineteenth century, and contributed to the dawning of the industrial age.
	www.beardbooks.com /cyrus_hall_mccormick_his_life_and_work.html (400 words)

	BookRags: Cyrus Hall McCormick Biography
		Cyrus McCormick was born in rural Virginia and received a limited formal education.
		McCormick continued to expand his factory, and the reaper itself was constantly improved, though the actual inventive work after about 1860 was left to mechanics hired by the firm.
		McCormick himself was embroiled in many court fights but was successful on that front as well.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/cyrus-hall-mccormick (765 words)

	AmericanHeritage.com / 1850s CYRUS H. McCORMICK AND COMPANY
		It reached the farm with the reaper, which amounted to a large horsedrawn lawn mower that could cope with tall stands of wheat or grain, putting an end to the age-old practice of having a crowd of men advance across a field swinging sickles or scythes, followed by women and children who collected the cuttings.
		McCormick was not the only inventor of a reaper, but his much-improved model qualified for a patent of its own, and in 1851, in Chicago, he built the world’s largest reaper factory and produced the machines for sale.
		Thus McCormick’s reaper embodied a century-long trend: The mechanization of agriculture enabled fewer people to produce more food, thereby releasing a work force to build cities and run the industries in them, transforming America from a rural nation into an urban one.
	www.americanheritage.com /articles/magazine/ah/2001/4/2001_4_10.shtml (326 words)

	Cyrus Hall McCormick, WHi-8360
		This portrait was reportedly a favorite of his wife Nettie Fowler McCormick (1835-1923).
		McCormick was a Chicago industrialist and inventor in 1831 of the first commercially successful reaper, a horse-drawn machine to harvest wheat.
		He formed the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company in 1848 to manufacture and sell his invention, and through innovative marketing techniques the Chicago firm grew into the largest farm equipment manufacturer in the United States.
	www.wisconsinhistory.org /whi/fullRecord.asp?id=8360 (166 words)

	Cyrus Hall McCormick: Inventor - EnchantedLearning.com
		Cyrus Hall McCormick (February 15, 1809 - May 13, 1884) was an American inventor (of Irish descent) who developed the mechanical reaper.
		His father, Robert McCormick, was a farmer and flsmith who invented many useful devices to use on his farm.
		Cyrus McCormick invented a horse-drawn reaper that used back-and-forth-moving cutting blades and a revolving device that pushed the cut grain onto the back of the machine.
	www.zoomschool.com /inventors/page/m/mccormick.shtml (271 words)

	Cyrus McCormick
		Cyrus McCormick (SIGH rus - mac COR mik) grew up on a farm in Virginia.
		Cyrus and his wife were very generous, sharing their money with people who needed help.
		Cyrus decided he would get some of the successful farmers to test his reaper.
	www.gardenofpraise.com /ibdcyrus.htm (992 words)

	Cyrus McCormick, Laflin Street (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Cyrus Hall McCormick appears to have had a fierce Scottish temper.
		McCormick refused to pay and ordered his luggage off the train, while he and his party made their way to a local hotel.
		It took 23 years to resolve the case and, when it was finally concluded, Cyrus Hall McCormick had been dead a full year.
	www.chicago-scots.org /clubs/History/Newsletters/1994/July94-1.htm (468 words)

	Cyrus McCormick
		Cyrus Hall McCormick (1809-1884) conceived plans for his reaper, built and tested it, and then remodled it for public trial..
		Cyrus H. McCormick (1809-1884) was an industrialist and inventor of the first commercially successful reaper..
		Cyrus Hall McCormick of Virginia was an American farmer, inventor, businessman, marketer, and newspaper editor.
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	Cyrus McCormick
		His father was a farmer who had invented numerous labor-saving devices for farmwork, but after repeated efforts had failed in his attempts to construct a successful grain cutting machine.
		In 1831, Cyrus, then twenty-two years old, took up the problem, and after careful study constructed a machine which was successfully employed in the late harvest of 1831 and patented in 1834.
		The McCormick reaper after further improvements proved a complete success; and in 1847 the inventor removed to Chicago, where he established large works for manufacturing his agricultural machines.
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	Cyrus McCormick
		While others had also invented the mechanical grain reaper McCormick's constant improvements and astute business sense enabled him to turn his small family-run business into a worldwide corporation.
		Cyrus Hall McCormick - McCormick, Cyrus Hall, 1809–84, inventor of the reaper, b.
		McCormick legacy returns home to its roots.(FYI News & Notes)(McCormick International USA donates tractor to Cyrus McCormick Farm)(Brief......
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	Shenandoah Valley's McCormick Farm (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		A five-acre memorial plot at the Shenandoah AREC pays tribute to Cyrus McCormick and the ingenuity of the McCormick family.
		Cyrus Hall McCormick invented the first successful reaper and founded the harvesting machine industry.
		This, the world's first successful mechanical reaper, opened a new era in agriculture, an age of mechanization that changed life on the farm, altered American advertizing, and made it possible for millions of people to leave the land and enter an industrial society.
	www.vaes.vt.edu /steeles/mccormick/mccormick.html (149 words)

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		Born in Rockbridge County, Virginia, Cyrus was son to a man who's
		In 1847, the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company was moved to Chicago.
		McCormick's company had grown to become one of greatest industrial
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