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Born in Rockbridge County, Virgina on a tobacco plantation.
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Invention of the REAPER.
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First seven Reapers were sold
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Over 90 Reapers were sold in 7 years, and all were manually crafted.
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Cyrus heard about a manufacturing facility in Brockport, NewYork where he decided to start having all Reapers Mass produced.
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Cyrus's brother Leander decided to move with Cyrus to Chicago and establish a compnay base there
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Jhon Henry Mannys reaper beat McCormicks so Cyrus filed a lawsuit fo patent infringement
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Company changed name to "McCormick Harvesting Machine Company"
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yrus McCormick dies due to health comlications, he was also paralyzed waist don froma stoke for the past four years
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McCormick joined with Deering Harvester to create the International Harvester Co.
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Joined with Case Tractors to Create the bigget farming tractor business in the world CASEIH
