REAPER
CASTEPHEN ANDERSON
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CYRUS HALL MCCORMICK
INVENTOR
BORN IN 1809 AT WALNUT GROVE, VA BUILDING UPON EX
PERIMENTS BY HIS FATHER, HE PERFECTED A REAPING
MACHINE, FIRST USED IN 1831, WHICH INCREASED THE
SPEED OF HARVESTING GREATLY OVER HAND METHODS.
THE ESSENTIAL FEATURES OF HIS FIRST MACHINE HAVE
BEEN PART OF EVERY REAPER MANUFACTURED SINCE
HIS DAY HE DIED MAY 13,1884 AT CHICAGO, ILL:
OCT 14
9-AM
1940
VA.
NO
CYRUS HALL
McCORMICK
39
-FIRST DAY OF ISSUE
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