CYKUS HALL McCORMICK 



powerful, dominating men, and were easily 

 the chief citizens the Romulus and Remus 

 of a city that was destined to be more populous 

 than Rome. 



But they were not suited as co-workers. 

 Each was too strong-willed for co-operative 

 action. Also, Ogden was a man of many in- 

 terests, while McCormick was absorbed in his 

 Reaper. There was no open quarrel, but in 

 1849 McCormick said: "I will pay you back the 

 $25,000 that you invested, and give you $25,000 

 for profits and interest." Ogden accepted, 

 well pleased to have doubled his money in 

 two years; and from that time onward Mc- 

 Cormick had no partners except the members 

 of his own family. 



Moving at once from one obstacle to another, 

 as McCormick did throughout the whole course 

 of his life, he now began to create the best 

 possible system of selling his Reapers to the 

 farmers. This he had to do, for the reason that 

 there was no means at that time whereby he 

 could offer them for sale. The village black- 

 smith was too busy at his anvil to become an 



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