What most of us know as a Scout was only produced from 1960 to 1980. The assembly line cranked up in December of 1960 and ...

Unlike many a U. S. tycoon, Cyrus Hall McCormick had a son and namesake who could fill his shoes. When Cyrus I died in 1884, Cyrus II became president of McCormick Harvesting Machine Co., later ...

Paxton Manor in Leesburg, Virginia, is a historic home known for its ghost stories and current use as a facility for children with ...

Navigating Graceland Cemetary’s grounds, you can see the names and locations of more obscure Chicago residents. Here’s a tour.

She married Stanley McCormick, the youngest son of Cyrus McCormick, the founder International Harvester. And he is a very wealthy man. And shortly after their marriage Stanley is diagnosed with ...

Cyrus McCormick's reapers and harvesters, and - about a century later - Henry Ford's Model T. Ford was a champion of interchangeability, and the Model T production line would have been ...

Cyrus McCormick invented his "mechanical man" in Virginia in 1831, but came to Chicago in 1847 to be closer to potential customers in the Midwestern farmland. His four-story Chicago factory would ...

but its history dates as far back as 1831 with Cyrus Hall McCormick's horse-drawn reaper. In the early 1900s, IH's production ...

IH's history begins back in 1834, however, when Cyrus Hall McCormick patented a mechanized reaper device used to harvest ...

The Chicago window is “in loving memory of Nettie Fowler McCormick, 1835-1923,” wife of Cyrus Hall McCormick (1809-84), inventor of the reaping machine, and mother of Cyrus Hall and Harold ...