INDEX 



Solomon, 206 



South Carolina, 97 



Spain, in 1809, 4; wheat im- 

 ported by, 241 



Spaulding, George H., 115 



Speculators, grain, 224, 225 



Spencer, Herbert, 51 



Spring, Charles, 143 



Stanton, Edwin M., 91, 99 



Staunton, Virginia, 2, 40, 57, 

 58, 60 



Steamboat, invention of, 210 



Steele, Eliza, 37 



Steele, John, 37, 40 



Steele's Tavern, Virginia, 37 



Stewart, A. T., 21,81 



Stock-yards not located at 

 Chicago when Cyrus H. 

 McCormick came, 70 



Storage of wheat, 213, 214 



Suez Canal, 70, 210 



Sulina, 217, 218 



Surveying, Cyrus H. McCor- 

 mick 's study of, 27 



Sweden in 1809, 4; specula- 

 tion in grain in, 224; wheat 

 production in, 241, 242 



Switzerland, 225, 242 



T 



Taylor, Dr., 40 

 Taylor, Hon. William, 39, 40 

 Tecumseh, 4 

 Tehuantepec Inter-Ocean 



Railroad, 144 

 Telegraph, 49, 50, 70, 131, 210 



Telephone, 210 



Temperance society at Sara- 

 toga, 7 



Tennessee, Scotch-Irish in, 20; 

 first Reaper purchased in, 

 63; comparison of grain 

 production of, 242 



Tennyson, 1, 51 



Texas, Scotch-Irish in, 20; 

 not in the Union in 1831, 

 51 



Theatres in early Chicago, 70, 

 71 



Thompson, J. Edgar, 101 



Tilden, 76, 165 



Times, Chicago, 166 



Times, London, 130 



Town and city dwellers, pro- 

 portion of, 195, 196 



Town laborers become farm- 

 ers, 11 



Trans-Siberian railway, 212 



Transportation charges on 

 wheat, 213 



Transportation of Reapers 

 from Virginia farm, 64 



Tribune, of Chicago, founded, 

 71 



Trolley, introduction of, 210 



Tunis, 242 



Turks in Servia (1809), 4 



Tutwiler, Colonel, 63 



Twine-mill in' McCormick 

 factory, Chicago, 197 



Twine self-binders, 115-118, 

 121 



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