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Cyrus McCormick
In July 1831, Cyrus Hall McCormick (1809-1884) of Rockbridge County demonstrated his mechanical reaper in
a field of oats near Steele's Tavern. By 1847, he had decided to concentrate the manufacture of his device in Chicago,
where he founded International Harvester.
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