![]() McCormick's Cantigny, built in 1896 by Joseph Medill). Early in 1886 labor unions were beginning a movement for an eight-hour day. James Farm, built in 1903 and purchased by the McCormicks in the 1920s) and The workers on strike demanded an eight-hour workday, at a time when 60-hour workweeks were common. (Chauncey and his son Brooks McCormick's St. After McCormicks death in 1884, his son took control of the company. In the spring of 1886 workers struck at the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company in Chicago, the factory that made farm equipment including the famous McCormick Reaper made by Cyrus McCormick. McCormick, Jr.'s “Walden,” built in 1896), and the western suburbs of (Harold Fowler and Edith Rockefeller McCormick's Villa Turicum, built in 1911 Nettie Fowler McCormick's House-inthe-Woods, built in 1916 Cyrus H. Cyrus took a look at his design and made a few changes to make the mechanical reaper fully functional and obtained a patent in 1834. Cyrus's descendants would occupy “McCormickville” on Chicago'sĬountry estates in the North Shore suburb of Cyrus McCormicks father invented the first horse-drawn crop reaper and was experimenting with a design for a mechanical reaper when he turned the experiment over to his son. His most notable invention was a reaping machine, patented in 1833, that was a rival of a similar machine, patented in 1834, produced by Cyrus McCormick. Obed Hussey (17921860) was an American inventor. ![]() McCormicks have also been involved in the banking, investment, news media, and real-estate businesses.įamily influence has spanned Chicago and its suburbs. Obed Hussey circa 1850 Poster for Husseys Reaping Machine. The merger in 1902 of the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company and the Deering Harvester Company into International Harvester Company (now Navistar International Corporation) would solidify McCormick and his descendants' lock on the market of farm implements for nearly 150 years. Cyrus McCormick became one of the richest businessmen in the city. Upon the declaration of peace between the warring states, vast numbers of discharged Union soldiers went into the West, to take up homes under the military homestead law. The reaper's market was on the plains and prairies of Chicago's growing hinterland. 'Cyrus Hall McCormick and the Reaper.' State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1908. From Cyrus McCormick (1809–1884) to his grandnephew Brooks McCormick (1917–), the McCormick family has been a force in the business, cultural, and philanthropic life and history of the Chicago metropolitan area for over 150 years.Ĭyrus McCormick relocated his reaper work to Chicago from Virginia in 1847.
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