Cyrus Hall McCormick II

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Cyrus Hall McCormick II (1859-1936). He was the oldest son of the industrialist Cyrus Hall McCormick (1809-1884). He was president of the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company from 1884 to 1902. He was later president of the merged International Harvester Company starting in 1902. [1]

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  1. ^ Cyrus Hall McCormick. Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved on 2007-08-26. “Cyrus H. McCormick (1809-1884) was an industrialist and inventor of the first commercially successful reaper, a horse-drawn machine to harvest wheat. He was born at the family farm (Walnut Grove) in Rockbridge County, Virginia on February 15, 1809. His father Robert experimented with a design for a mechanical reaper from around the time of Cyrus' birth.”
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