Ye Olde History Snippets...on this day, 21 June 1834, Cyrus McCormick, a staunch Presbyterian of Scottish stock, patented his reaper.

Cyrus Hall McCormick
February 15, 1809 – May 13, 1884

American inventor and businessman who founded the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company

​It later became part of the International Harvester Company in 1902.

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