CYRUS HALL McCORMICK 



too, was a quiet, dignified man, very highly 

 esteemed in both the United States and Europe. 

 Lewis Miller, who deserves most credit as the 

 creator of the mower, continued to do business 

 at Akron. Mr. Miller was almost equally fam- 

 ous as a Methodist and the originator of the 

 Chautauqua idea. At Auburn, N. Y., David M. 

 Osborne was fighting manfully to keep in the 

 race. He had built seven Reapers as early as 

 1856; and had made many friends by his ability 

 and uprightness. At Hoosick Falls, N. Y., 

 there was Walter A. Wood a most competent 

 and enterprising man; at Piano, Illinois, there 

 was William H. Jones self-made and as 

 honest as the soil; and at Springfield, Ohio, were 

 the picturesque William N. Whiteley and the 

 powerful company of Warder, Bushnell, and 

 Glessner. Whiteley was an inventor who had 

 changed a McCormick Reaper into what he 

 called a "combined machine" a combined 

 Reaper and mower. And Warder, Bushnell, 

 and Glessner had begun to make McCormick 

 Reapers, by means of a license from Seymour 

 and Morgan, in 1852. 



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