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((Short description|American inventor and businessman (1809–1884)))
((for|his son, the American businessman|Cyrus McCormick Jr.))
((Infobox person
| image = Cyrus McCormick engraving.png
| birth_name = Cyrus Hall McCormick
| birth_date = February 15, 1809
| birth_place = [[Raphine, Virginia]], U.S.
| death_date = ((death date and age|1884|5|13|1809|2|15))
| death_place = Chicago, [[Illinois]], U.S.
| resting_place = [[Graceland Cemetery]]
| occupation= inventor and agricultural machinery tycoon
| known_for = Founder of the ''McCormick Harvesting Machine Company''((Paragraph break)) Co-designer of the [[mechanical reaper]]
| education = 
| spouse = [[Nancy Fowler McCormick|Nancy Fowler]] (m. 1858–1884; his death)
| children = 7
| parents =  [[Robert McCormick (Virginia inventor)|Robert McCormick Jr.]]<br />Mary Ann Hall
| relations = See [[McCormick family]]
| signature = Cyrus McCormick signature.svg))

'''Cyrus Hall McCormick''' (February 15, 1809 – May 13, 1884) was an American inventor and businessman who founded the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company, which later became part of the [[International Harvester|International Harvester Company]] in 1902.<ref name=whs>((cite web |url=http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/libraryarchives/ihc/cyrus.asp |title=Cyrus Hall McCormick |quote=Cyrus H. McCormick (1808–1883) was an industrialist and inventor of the first commercially successful reaper, a horse-drawn machine to harvest wheat. He was born at the family farm (Walnut Grove) in [[Rockbridge County, Virginia]] on February 15, 1809. His father experimented with a design for a mechanical reaper from around the time of Cyrus' birth. | publisher= [[Wisconsin Historical Society]] | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20070905065855/http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/libraryarchives/ihc/cyrus.asp | archive-date= September 5, 2007 | url-status= dead))</ref> Originally from the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, he and many members of the [[McCormick family]] became prominent residents of Chicago.
McCormick has been simplistically credited as the single inventor of the [[Reaper#Mechanical reapers in the U.S.|mechanical reaper]]. 

He was, however, one of several designing engineers who produced successful models in the 1830s. His efforts built on more than two decades of work by his father [[Robert McCormick (Virginia inventor)|Robert McCormick Jr.]], with the aid of Jo Anderson, an enslaved African-American man held by the family.<ref>((cite news |title=Jo Anderson |url=http://www.richmond.com/special-section/black-history/article_277b0072-700a-11e2-bb3d-001a4bcf6878.html |access-date=22 April 2015 |newspaper=[[Richmond Times-Dispatch]] |date=5 February 2013))</ref> He also successfully developed a modern [[company]], with [[manufacturing]], [[marketing]], and a [[sales]] force to market his products.<ref name="McCormick_1931">((McCormick1931))</ref>

==Early life and career==
[[File:Cyrus Hall McCormick at National Portrait Gallery IMG 4390.JPG|200px|left|thumb|''Cyrus Hall McCormick'' portrait, held by the [[National Portrait Gallery (United States)|National Portrait Gallery]] in Washington, D.C.]]
Cyrus Hall McCormick was born on February 15, 1809, in  [[Raphine, Virginia]]. He was the eldest of eight children born to inventor [[Robert McCormick (Virginia inventor)|Robert McCormick Jr.]] (1780–1846) and Mary Ann "Polly" Hall (1780–1853). As Cyrus's father saw the potential of the design for a mechanical reaper, he applied for a patent to claim it as his own invention. He worked for 28 years on a horse-drawn mechanical [[reaper]] to harvest grain, but was never able to reproduce a reliable version.

Building on his father's years of development, Cyrus took up the project aided by Jo Anderson, an enslaved African-American man held on the McCormick plantation.<ref name="Forbes">((cite book |author1=[[Daniel Gross (journalist)|Daniel Gross]] |author2=[[Forbes|''Forbes'' Magazine]] Staff |date=August 1997 |title=Greatest Business Stories of All Time |edition=First |publisher=John Wiley & Sons |location=New York |pages=[https://archive.org/details/isbn_0471196533/page/24 24–32] |isbn=0-471-19653-3 |url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_0471196533/page/24 ))</ref><ref name="Sluby">((cite book |author=Patricia Carter Sluby |title= The Inventive Spirit of African Americans: Patented Ingenuity |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=Wz-DTSXeLRYC&pg=PA282 |year=2004 |publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group |isbn=978-0-275-96674-4 |page=282))</ref> A few machines based on a design of [[Patrick Bell]] of Scotland (which had not been patented) were available in the United States in these years. The Bell machine was pushed by horses. The McCormick design was pulled by horses and cut the grain to one side of the team.

Cyrus McCormick held one of his first demonstrations of mechanical reaping at the nearby village of [[Steeles Tavern, Virginia]] in 1831. He claimed to have developed a final version of the reaper in 18 months. The young McCormick was granted a patent on the reaper on June 21, 1834,<ref name="iles">((Cite book |author= George Iles |year = 1912 |edition= 2nd |title = Leading American Inventors |place =New York |publisher = Henry Holt and Company| url = https://archive.org/details/leadingamericani00ilesrich |pages=[https://archive.org/details/leadingamericani00ilesrich/page/276 276]–314 |chapter= Cyrus H. McCormick ))</ref> two years after having been granted a patent for a self-sharpening plow.<ref name="encyclopedia.com">((Cite web|url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/people/science-and-technology/technology-biographies/cyrus-hall-mccormick|title=Cyrus Hall Mccormick |website=Encyclopedia.com|access-date=14 December 2021))</ref> None was sold, however, because the machine could not handle varying conditions.
[[File:McCormick Reaper, 1845.jpg|thumb|left |Sketch of 1845 model reaper]]
The McCormick family also worked together in a blacksmith/metal smelting business. The [[panic of 1837]] almost caused the family to go into bankruptcy when a partner pulled out. In 1839 McCormick started doing more public demonstrations of the reaper, but local farmers still thought the machine was unreliable. He did sell one in 1840, but none for 1841.

Using the endorsement of his father's first customer for a machine built by McPhetrich, Cyrus continually attempted to improve the design. He finally sold seven reapers in 1842, 29 in 1843, and 50 in 1844. They were all built manually in the family farm shop. He received a second patent for reaper improvements on January 31, 1845.<ref name="iles"/>

As word spread about the reaper, McCormick noticed orders arriving from farther west, where farms tended to be larger and the land flatter. While he was in Washington, D.C. to get his 1845 patent, he heard about a factory in [[Brockport, New York]], where he contracted to have the machines mass-produced. He also licensed several others across the country to build the reaper, but their quality often proved poor, which hurt the product's reputation.

==Move to Chicago==
In 1847, after their father's death, Cyrus and his brother [[Leander J. McCormick|Leander]] (1819–1900) moved to Chicago, where they established a factory to build their machines. At the time, other cities in the [[midwestern United States]], such as [[Cleveland, Ohio]]; [[St. Louis, Missouri]]; and [[Milwaukee, Wisconsin]] were more established and prosperous. Chicago had no paved streets at the time, but the city had the best water transportation from the east over the [[Great Lakes]] for his raw materials, as well as railroad connections to the farther west where his customers would be.<ref name="Casson_1909">((Citation |last=Casson |first=Herbert Newton |year=1909 |title=Cyrus Hall McCormick: His Life and Work |publisher=A. C. McClurg & Company |location=Chicago |lccn=09028139 |url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.12822/page/n2/mode/2up))</ref>

When McCormick tried to renew his patent in 1848, the [[U.S. Patent Office]] noted that a similar machine had already been patented by [[Obed Hussey]] a few months earlier. McCormick claimed he had invented his machine in 1831, but the renewal was denied.<ref name="cheap">((cite book |editor=Follet L. Greeno | year=1912 | title=Obed Hussey: Who, of All Inventors, Made Bread Cheap |publisher= The Rochester Herald publishing Company |url= https://archive.org/details/obedhusseywhoofa00greeuoft ))</ref>  William Manning of [[Plainfield, New Jersey]] had also received a patent for his reaper in May 1831, but at the time, Manning was evidently not defending his patent.<ref name="iles"/>

McCormick's brother [[William Sanderson McCormick|William]] (1815–1865) moved to Chicago in 1849, and joined the company to take care of financial affairs. The McCormick reaper sold well, partially as a result of savvy and innovative business practices.<ref name="Forbes"/> Their products came onto the market just as the development of railroads offered wide distribution to distant markets. McCormick developed marketing and sales techniques, developing a wide network of salesmen trained to demonstrate operation of the machines in the field, as well as to get parts quickly and repair machines in the field if necessary during crucial times in the farm year.

A company advertisement was a take-off of the ''[[Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way]]'' mural by [[Emanuel Leutze]]; it added to the title: "with McCormick Reapers in the Van."<ref name="Michael Adas 2006 79">((cite book |author=Michael Adas |title= Dominance by design: technological imperatives and America's civilizing mission  |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=yHh6gwshyKIC&pg=PA79 |year=2006 |publisher= [[Harvard University Press]] |isbn= 978-0-674-01867-9 |page= 79 ))</ref>

In 1851, McCormick traveled to London to display a reaper at the [[The Great Exhibition|Crystal Palace Exhibition]]. After his machine successfully harvested a field of green wheat while the Hussey machine failed, he won a gold medal and was admitted to the Legion of Honor. His celebration was short-lived after he learned that he had lost a court challenge to Hussey's patent.<ref name="query.nytimes.com">((cite news |title= England: Closing of the Great Exhibition—The Ballon Hoax—Egyptian Railroad—Mr. McCormick's Reaping Machine |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1851/11/05/297732542.pdf |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] | date= November 5, 1851 |access-date= January 18, 2011))</ref>

==Legal controversies and success==
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Another McCormick Company competitor was [[John Henry Manny]] of [[Rockford, Illinois]].  After the [[Manny Reaper]] beat the McCormick version at the [[Exposition Universelle (1855)|Paris Exposition]] of 1855, McCormick filed a lawsuit against Manny for patent infringement.<ref name="lincoln">((cite journal |title= Lincoln and the McCormick-Manny Case |author= Sarah-Eva Carlson |journal= Illinois History Magazine |date= February 1995 |url= http://www.lib.niu.edu/1995/ihy950230.html |access-date= December 26, 2010 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110316021114/http://www.lib.niu.edu/1995/ihy950230.html |archive-date= March 16, 2011 |url-status= dead |df= mdy-all ))</ref> McCormick demanded that Manny stop producing reapers, and pay McCormick $400,000.

The trial, originally scheduled for Chicago in September 1855, featured prominent lawyers on both sides. McCormick hired the former U.S. Attorney General [[Reverdy Johnson]] and New York patent attorney Edward Nicholl Dickerson. Manny hired George Harding and [[Edwin M. Stanton]]. Because the trial was set to take place in Illinois, Harding hired the local Illinois lawyer [[Abraham Lincoln]]. The trial was moved to [[Cincinnati, Ohio]], however. Manny won the case, with an opinion by the State Supreme Court Judge [[John McLean]].<ref>((cite book |title= Reports of cases argued and decided in the circuit court, Volume 6 |chapter= Cyrus H. McCormick v. John H. Manny and Others |publisher= H. W. Derby & Company |pages= 539–557 |author= [[John McLean]] |year= 1856 |chapter-url= https://books.google.com/books?id=sCq3AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA539 )) U.S. District Court of Ohio record</ref> Lincoln did not contribute to the defense. Stanton had objected to Lincoln's presence, referring to him as "that damned long armed ape."<ref name="Goodwin"/> After being elected president five years later, Lincoln selected Stanton to be his [[Secretary of War]] where he became one of Lincoln's key advisers.<ref name="Goodwin">((cite book |author=Doris Kearns Goodwin |title=Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln |url=https://archive.org/details/teamofrivalspoli00good |url-access=registration |year=2005 |publisher=Simon and Schuster |isbn=978-0-684-82490-1 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/teamofrivalspoli00good/page/173 173]–175))</ref>

[[File:McCormick Twine Binder 1884.jpg|thumb|McCormick [[reaper-binder|reaper and twine binder]] in 1884]]
In 1856, McCormick's factory was producing more than 4000 reapers each year, mostly sold in the Midwest and West. In 1861, however, Hussey's patent was extended but McCormick's was not. McCormick's outspoken opposition to Lincoln and the anti-slavery Republican party may not have helped his cause. McCormick decided to seek help from the U.S. Congress to protect his patent.<ref>((cite news |title= The McCormick Reaper Patent |url= https://www.nytimes.com/1861/07/06/news/the-mccormick-reaper-patent.html |newspaper=The New York Times | date= July 6, 1861  |access-date= January 18, 2011 ))</ref>

In 1871, the factory burned down in the [[Great Chicago Fire]], but McCormick heeded his wife's advice to rebuild, and it reopened in 1873 even as McCormick's health declined, so she took a greater role in the family's business as well as philanthropic affairs. In 1879, brother Leander changed the company's name from "Cyrus H. McCormick and Brothers" to "McCormick Harvesting Machine Company".<ref>((cite web |title= The McCormick Family and their Mechanical Reaper |url= http://www.astro.virginia.edu/research/observatories/26inch/history/reaper.php |publisher= Leander McCormick Observatory Museum |access-date= December 28, 2010 |archive-date= July 11, 2010 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20100711224435/https://www.astro.virginia.edu/research/observatories/26inch/history/reaper.php |url-status= dead ))</ref> He wanted to acknowledge the contributions of others in the family to the reaper "invention" and company, especially their father.<ref name="Sluby"/>

==Family relationships==
((see also|McCormick family))
On January 26, 1858, 49-year-old Cyrus McCormick married his secretary [[Nancy Fowler McCormick|Nancy "Nettie" Fowler]] (1835–1923).((cn|date=August 2022)) She was an orphan from New York who had graduated from the Troy Female Seminary and moved to Chicago. They had met two years earlier and shared views about business, religion and Democratic party politics.<ref name="liberty-virtue-independence.blogspot.com">((Cite web|url=http://liberty-virtue-independence.blogspot.com/2011/11/cyrus-and-nettie-mccormick.html|title=Virtue, Liberty, and Independence: Cyrus and Nettie McCormick|website=Liberty-virtue-independence.blogspot.com|date=22 November 2011|access-date=14 December 2021))</ref> They had seven children:
# [[Cyrus McCormick Jr.|Cyrus Hall McCormick Jr.]] was born May 16, 1859.
# [[Mary Virginia McCormick]] was born May 5, 1861.
# Robert McCormick III was born October 5, 1863, and died January 6, 1865.
# [[Anita McCormick Blaine|Anita McCormick]] was born July 4, 1866, married Emmons Blaine on September 26, 1889, and died February 12, 1954. Emmons was a son of the U.S. Secretary of State [[James G. Blaine]].<ref>((cite news |title= Emmons Blaine Married; His Wedding with Miss Anita M'Cormick; Many Distinguished Guests Witnessed the Ceremony at Richfield Springs Yesterday |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1889/09/27/109322838.pdf |newspaper=The New York Times |date= September 27, 1889 | access-date= January 5, 2011 ))</ref>
# Alice McCormick was born March 15, 1870, and died less than a year later on January 25, 1871.
# [[Harold Fowler McCormick]] was born May 2, 1872, married [[Edith Rockefeller McCormick|Edith Rockefeller]], and died in 1941. Edith was the youngest daughter of Standard Oil co-founder [[John D. Rockefeller|John Davison Rockefeller]] and schoolteacher [[Laura Spelman Rockefeller|Laura Celestia "Cettie" Spelman]].
# Stanley Robert McCormick was born November 2, 1874, married [[Katharine McCormick|Katharine Dexter]] (1875–1967), and died January 19, 1947.<ref name="family">((cite book |title= Family record and biography |publisher= L.J. McCormick |author= [[Leander J. McCormick]] |year= 1896 |pages= [https://archive.org/details/familyrecordand00mccogoog/page/n16 303]–304 |url= https://archive.org/details/familyrecordand00mccogoog ))</ref>

Mary and Stanley both had [[schizophrenia]].<ref>((cite journal |author= Miriam Kleiman |title= Rich, famous, and questionably sane: when a wealthy heir's family sought help from a hospital for the insane |journal= Prologue: Quarterly of the National Archives and Records Administration |date= Summer 2007 |volume= 39 |number = 2 |pages= 38–47 |url= https://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2007/summer/mccormick.html ))</ref> Stanley McCormick's life inspired the 1998 novel ''[[Riven Rock]]'' by [[T. Coraghessan Boyle]].<ref>((cite web |title= Riven Rock |author= [[T. Coraghessan Boyle]] |work= author's web page |url= http://www.tcboyle.com/page2.html?2,11 |access-date= December 29, 2010 ))</ref>

Cyrus McCormick was an uncle of [[Robert Sanderson McCormick]] (son-in-law of [[Joseph Medill]]); granduncle of [[Joseph M. McCormick|Joseph Medill McCormick]] and [[Robert R. McCormick|Robert Rutherford McCormick]]; and great-granduncle of [[William McCormick Blair Jr.]]<ref name="family"/>

 ((McCormick Chicago family tree))

==Activism==
McCormick had always been a devout [[Presbyterian Church (USA)|Presbyterian]], as well as advocate of [[Christianity|Christian]] unity. He also valued and demonstrated in his life the [[Calvinism|Calvinist]] traits of self-denial, sobriety, thriftiness, efficiency, and morality. He believed feeding the world, made easier by the reaper, was part of his religious mission in life.((citation needed|date=June 2020))

A lifelong Democrat, before the [[American Civil War]], McCormick had published editorials in his newspapers, ''[[The Chicago Times]]'' and ''[[Chicago Herald (1881–95)|Herald]]'', calling for reconciliation between the national sections. His views, however, were unpopular in his adopted home town. Although his invention helped feed Union troops, McCormick believed the Confederacy would not be defeated and he and his wife traveled extensively in Europe during the war. McCormick unsuccessfully ran for Congress as a Democrat for [[Illinois's 2nd congressional district]] with a peace-now platform in 1864, and was soundly defeated by Republican [[John Wentworth (Illinois politician)|John Wentworth]].<ref>((cite book |last1=Ostewig |first1=Kinnie A. |title=The sage of Sinnissippi: Being a brief sketch of the life of Congressman Frank Orren Lowden, of Oregon, Illinois, brief sketches of his rivals in political battles, a short article relating to his availability as a presidential candidate for 1908, and an official and authentic account of state elections in Illinois, statistically, combined with a roll of honor of the nation, the state, the county, and the village, the home of the author ... |date=1907 |publisher=Press of J.A. Nolen |page=211 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=P2IfAQAAMAAJ |access-date=17 May 2020 |language=en))</ref><ref name=casson/> He also proposed a peace plan to include a Board of Arbitration.<ref name=casson>((cite book |last1=Casson |first1=Herbert Newton |title=Cyrus Hall McCormick His Life and Work |date=2005 |publisher=Cosimo, Inc. |isbn=9781596051201 |page=167 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9oultaqE-vUC&pg=PA167 |access-date=30 September 2018 |language=en))</ref>  After the war, McCormick helped found the Mississippi Valley Society, with a mission to promote New Orleans and Mississippi ports for European trade. He also supported efforts to annex the [[Dominican Republic]] as a territory of the United States.((Citation needed|date=January 2021)) Beginning in 1872, McCormick served a four-year term on the Illinois Democratic Party's Central Committee.((cn|date=August 2022)) McCormick later proposed an international mechanism to control food production and distribution.

McCormick also became the principal benefactor and a trustee of what had been the Theological Seminary of the Northwest, which moved to Chicago's Lincoln Park neighborhood in 1859, a year in which he endowed four professorships. The institution was renamed [[McCormick Theological Seminary]] in 1886, after his death, although it moved to Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood in 1975 and began sharing facilities with the [[Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago]].

In 1869, McCormick donated $10,000 to help [[Dwight L. Moody]] start [[YMCA]], and his son Cyrus Jr. would become the first chairman of the [[Moody Bible Institute]].<ref name="liberty-virtue-independence.blogspot.com"/>

McCormick and later his widow, Nettie Day McCormick, also donated significant sums to [[Tusculum College]], a Presbyterian institution in Tennessee, as well as to establish churches and Sunday Schools in the South after the war, even though that region was slow to adopt his farm machinery and improved practices. Also, in 1872, McCormick purchased a religious newspaper, the ''Interior'', which he renamed the ''Continent'' and became a leading Presbyterian periodical.((cn|date=August 2022))

For the last 20 years of his life, McCormick was a benefactor and member of the board of trustees at [[Washington and Lee University]] in his native Virginia.<ref>((cite web |title= Historical Benefactions Support Washington and Lee University |url= http://www.wlu.edu/x51099.xml |publisher= Washington and Lee University |access-date= December 31, 2012 |url-status= dead |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20120218101417/http://www.wlu.edu/x51099.xml |archive-date= February 18, 2012 ))</ref> His brother Leander also donated funds to build an observatory on [[Mount Jefferson (Virginia)|Mount Jefferson]], operated by the [[University of Virginia]] and named the [[McCormick Observatory]].<ref>((Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=K4M9AQAAIAAJ|title=Scientific American|date=1884-05-24|publisher=Munn & Company|pages=321|language=en))</ref>

==Later life and death==
During the last four years of his life, McCormick became an invalid, after a stroke paralyzed his legs; he was unable to walk during his final two years. He died at home in Chicago on May 13, 1884.<ref>((cite news |title= Cyrus H. McCormick Dead |url= https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1884/05/14/106278925.pdf | newspaper=The New York Times | date= May 14, 1884 | access-date= 2007-08-21 ))</ref> He was buried in [[Graceland Cemetery]].<ref name="Hutchinson_1935">((Citation |last=Hutchinson |first=William Thomas |year=1935 |title=Cyrus Hall McCormick: Harvest, 1856-1884 |volume=2 |location=New York |publisher=D. Appleton, The Century Company |url=https://archive.org/details/cyrushallmccormi000264mbp |postscript=.))</ref> He was survived by his widow, Nettie, who continued his Christian and charitable activities, within the United States and abroad, between 1890 and her death in 1923, donating $8 million (over $160 million in modern equivalents) to hospitals, disaster and relief agencies, churches, youth activities and educational institutions, and becoming the leading benefactress of Presbyterian Church activities in that era.<ref name="liberty-virtue-independence.blogspot.com"/>

Official leadership of the company passed to his eldest son [[Cyrus McCormick Jr.|Cyrus Hall McCormick Jr.]], but his grandson Cyrus McCormick III ran the company. Four years later, the company's labor practices (paying workers $9 per week) led to the [[Haymarket riots]]. Ultimately Cyrus Jr. teamed with J.P. Morgan to create the International Harvester Corporation in 1902. After Cyrus Hall McCormick Jr., [[Harold Fowler McCormick]] ran International Harvester. Various members of the [[McCormick family]] continued involvement with the corporation until [[Brooks McCormick]], who died in 2006.

==Legacy and honors==
Numerous prizes and medals were awarded McCormick for his reaper, which reduced human labor on farms while increasing productivity. Thus, it contributed to the industrialization of agriculture as well as migration of labor to cities in numerous wheat-growing countries (36 by McCormick's death). The French government named McCormick an Officier de la Légion d'honneur in 1851, and he was elected a corresponding member of the [[French Academy of Sciences]] in 1878 "as having done more for the cause of agriculture than any other living man."<ref name="encyclopedia.com"/>

The [[Wisconsin Historical Society]] holds Cyrus McCormick's papers.<ref name="whs"/>

* The [[Cyrus McCormick Farm]], operated by other family members after Cyrus and Leander moved to Chicago, was ultimately donated to [[Virginia Tech]], which operates the core of the property as a free museum, and other sections as an experimental farm. A marker memorializing Cyrus McCormick's contribution to agriculture had been erected near the main house in 1928.
* A statue of McCormick was erected on the front campus of [[Washington and Lee University]], at [[Lexington, Virginia]].
* The town of [[McCormick, South Carolina]] and [[McCormick County, South Carolina|McCormick County]] in the state were named for him after he bought a [[Dorn Gold Mine|gold mine]] in the town, formerly known as Dornsville.<ref>((cite web |title= History of Education in McCormick County |publisher= McCormick County School District |url= http://www.mccormick.k12.sc.us/History.html |access-date= December 26, 2010 |url-status= dead |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110227022239/http://www.mccormick.k12.sc.us/History.html |archive-date= February 27, 2011 ))</ref>
* 1975, McCormick was inducted into the [[Junior Achievement]] U.S. Business Hall of Fame.<ref>((cite web |title= Cyrus H. McCormick |department= U.S. Business Hall of Fame Induction year 1975 |publisher= Junior Achievement |url= http://www.ja.org/hof/viewLaureate.asp?id=107&induction_year=1975 |access-date= December 26, 2010 |url-status= dead |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20101216223423/http://ja.org/hof/viewLaureate.asp?id=107&induction_year=1975 |archive-date= December 16, 2010 ))</ref>
* 3 cent U.S. postage stamps were issued in 1940 to commemorate Cyrus Hall McCormick. See [[Postage stamps and postal history of the United States#Famous Americans Series of 1940|Famous Americans Series of 1940]].

== References ==
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== Further reading ==
* ((Citation |last=Aldrich |first=Lisa A. |year=2002 |title=Cyrus McCormick and the Mechanical Reaper |publisher=Morgan Reynolds Publishing |isbn=978-1883846916 |postscript=.))
* ((Citation |last=Lyons |first=Norbert |year=1955 |title=The McCormick Reaper Legend: The True Story of a Great Invention |location=New York |publisher=Exposition Press |lccn=55009405 |postscript=.))
* ((citation |first=Robert |last=Sobel |author-link=Robert Sobel |title=The Entrepreneurs: Explorations Within the American Business Tradition |location=New York |publisher=Weybright & Talley |year=1974 |chapter=Cyrus Hall McCormick : From Farm Boy to Tycoon |pages=[https://archive.org/details/entrepreneursexp00sobe/page/41 41–72] |isbn=0-679-40064-8 |postscript=. |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/entrepreneursexp00sobe/page/41 ))
* ((Citation |last=Welch |first=Catherine A. |year=2007 |title=Farmland Innovator: A Story About Cyrus McCormick |publisher=21st Century |isbn=978-0822568339 |postscript=.))

== External links ==
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* ((US patent|X8277))  ''Improvement in Machines for Reaping Small Grain'': Cyrus H. McCormick, June 21, 1834
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20070916023823/http://www.antiquefarming.com/machinery.html Farm Equipment] on Antique Farming web site
* ((Find a Grave |694 |Cyrus Hall McCormick))
* ((cite web |title= McCormick-Guggenheim-Morton-Medill family of Illinois |work= [[The Political Graveyard]] |url= http://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10643.html |access-date= January 1, 2011 |archive-date= January 1, 2011 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110101015701/http://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10643.html |url-status= dead ))
* ((cite web |title= Our History |publisher= McCormick-Argo Tractors S.p.A. |url= http://www.mccormick-intl.com/mccormick/brand_page/en-US/8605/Our_History.aspx |access-date= January 10, 2011 |url-status= dead |archive-url= https://archive.today/20121216084652/http://www.mccormick-intl.com/mccormick/brand_page/en-US/8605/Our_History.aspx |archive-date= December 16, 2012 ))
* ((cite web |title= Cyrus Hall McCormick |work= Inventor profile |publisher= National Inventors Hall of Fame Foundation |url= http://www.invent.org/hall_of_fame/101.html |access-date= January 10, 2011 |url-status= dead |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110411062001/http://www.invent.org/hall_of_fame/101.html |archive-date= April 11, 2011 ))
*((Cite web
| title = Herbert Kellar Papers, 1817–1969 (Curator for the McCormick Historical Association)
| work = The Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention & Innovation
| url = http://invention.smithsonian.org/resources/MIND_Repository_Details.aspx?rep_id=1869
))
* [http://www.newberry.org/collections/FindingAids/mccormickfamily/McCormickFamily.html McCormick Family Financial Records] ((Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110106074446/http://www.newberry.org/collections/FindingAids/mccormickfamily/McCormickFamily.html |date=2011-01-06 )) at [[Newberry Library]]
* [https://www.rootsandrecall.com/mccormick/ Explore McCormick County South Carolina]

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