INDEX 



Weaving machinery, inventors 

 of, 53 



Webster, Daniel, 15, 76, 95, 

 164 



Weed, Thurlow, 72, 



West, orders for Reapers from 

 the, 63; transportation to the, 

 64; McCormick visits the, 

 65; need of quicker method 

 of cutting grain in the, 

 65, 66; Chicago helped by 

 use of Reaper in, 73; Mc- 

 Cormick 's policy devel- 

 oped the, 86; Reaper pre- 

 ceded railway in the, 192; 

 wheat crop of the, 193; 

 railways in the, 211; Reap- 

 er advance-machine of civ- 

 ilization in, 227 



Wet grain, adaptation of the 

 Reaper to cut, 33, 61, 62 



" Whaleback" grain ships, 210 



Wheat, 51, 67, 69, 70, 73, 188- 

 196,201,203,205^5^. 



Wheat Congress, international, 

 233 



Wheat-ships, 210-213 



Whiteley, William N., 45, 46, 

 120, 150 



Whitney, Eli, 52, 97, 191 

 Whittier, 51 



Willmoth, improver of battle- 

 ship turret, 95 

 Wilson family from Ayrshire, 



Scotland, 86 

 Wilson, Hon. James, 86, 87, 



192 

 Winnipeg Grain Exchange, 



225 

 Wire self-binders displaced 



by twine self-binders, 115 



117 



Wisconsin, 50, 63, 114 

 Withington, Charles B., 109- 



115 



Wood, Jethro, 49, 53 

 Wood, Walter A., 103, 112, 120 

 Woodworth, inventor, 95 

 World's Fair, Chicago, 1893, 



124 



Wright, Joseph A., 134 

 Written guarantees given with 



McCormick Reapers, 79 



Yellow fever in the McCor- 

 mick family, 16 



264 



