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Mccormick, Cyrus Hall

manufacturer, inventor, was born Feb. 15, 1809, at Walnut Grove, Va. In 1846-48 some of the McCormick machines were manufactured at Brockport, N. Y., the makers paying a royalty on all they sold. In 1847 Mr. McCormick removed to Chicago, where he built new shops, and in the same year obtained a third patent for additional improvements. The sale, in 1847, amounted to about 700 machines; in 1848, to 1,500. In 1879 the business was incorporated as The McCormick Harvesting Machine company, with a capital of $2,500,000, the founder becoming president of the company. He died May 13, 1884, in Chicago, Ill.