A
Adams, John, 15
Advertisements of Reaper, 54, 81–83, 112, 134
Africa not a wheat-eating country, 242
Agencies established for sale of Reapers (about 1844), 63
Agents, Cyrus H. McCormick's plan in regard to, 83, 84, 86
Agriculture, Department of, 87
Algeria, 242
Allen, Grant, 205
America, yacht, 131
Amsterdam, 222
Antwerp, no grain stored in, 217;
Bourse in, 222;
third busiest port in world, 239
Appleby, John F., 115
Armagh massacre of 1641, 22
Athens, mills at, 236
Atkins, Jearum, 106
Augusta County, Virginia, 3
Australia, wheat crop of, 209;
legislation against speculation in, 225;
development of, 228
Australian stripper, 200
Austria in 1809, 4;
farm laborers received no wages in, 123;
climate and wheat production in, 241
Austrian Emperor decorated Cyrus H. McCormick, 135
Ayrshire, Scotland, 86
B
Babylon, 206
Baggage Case, 1862–1885, 100–102;
see also Pennsylvania Railroad
Baltic Exchange, London, 221
Baltic, holder of ocean record, 131
Baltimore and Ohio Railway, 49
Baltimore Convention of 1861, 158, 166
Bankers concerned in moving of wheat, 223, 224
Barbary pirates, 4
Barclay, Col. A. T., 40
Barge, invention of, 210
Battleship turret, improver of, 95
Bavarians in the Tyrol (1809), 4
Beagle, H. M. S., Darwin's voyage in, 51
Bear, Henry, 66
Behel, Jacob, 115
Belgian method of reaping, 6
Belgians, King of the, 125
Belgium, legislation against speculation in, 225;
consumption of bread per capita in, 239, 242
Berthelot, 51
Bessemer converter, 17, 49, 69, 210
Bismarck, 136
Black Death in England, 124
Blackie, 1
Blame, Mrs. Emmons, 183
Blanchard, inventor, 95
Board of Trade, none in Chicago when Cyrus H. McCormick came, 70
Bonanza farms, 194
Bull, Ole, 184
Bonar, 1
Bonner, Henry, publisher, 21
Bottgher, 53
Bourses, or European Exchanges, 222
Bowyer, Col. John, 40
Braila, Roumania, 216
Bradshaw, Prof., 40
Brains, John, 59
Bread, making of, 237, 238;
record time from standing grain to, 238;
cheapness of, 238
Brooks, Absalom, 58
Brown, A. C., 66
Brown, Senator, of Miss., 93
Bryant, 76
Buckle, 204
Budapest, Bourse in, 222;
"new process" mills in, 235, 236
Bulwer, Sir Henry Lytton, 130
Burson, W. W., 115
Bushnell, Reaper manufacturer, 103, 120
Butler, Gen., 36
C
Cablegrams, 233
Canada, grain inspectors in, 222;
grain speculation in, 225
Canada (western), wheat crop of, 209;
railways of, 212, 213;
development of, 227, 229
Canadian Pacific Railway, 227
Canal, first, in Chicago, 75
Carlyle, 155
Carnegie, Andrew, 56
Carpenter, "Pump," 114, 115, 117
Carthage, ruins of, 242
Cash, John, 35
Cavaliers of Virginia, 20
Châlons, Emperor Napoleon's estate, 134
Chautauqua idea, originator of, 120
Chicago, 4, 30, 31, 37, 50, 67, 68, 70–78, 83, 85, 97, 106, 137, 144, 146, 151–153, 162, 166, 188, 189, 192, 196, 201, 214, 215, 218, 219, 222, 223
Chicago fire of 1871, 30, 151–153, 182
China, opium traffic of, 204;
future use of wheat in, 232, 243
Christian, Minneapolis miller, 236
Cincinnati Democratic Convention, 171
Circus, first, in Chicago, 71
City and town dwellers, proportion of, 195, 196
Civil War, see Secession, War of
Clermont, Fulton's steamboat, 7
Cleveland, Ohio, 73
Collins Line, 131
Columbus, Reaper traced back to, 17
Congress, first recognition of Chicago by, 72;
Lincoln elected to, 72;
patent suits carried to, 91, 92;
how inventors have been treated by, 95
Corn stored at Chicago, 215
Corn Trade Association, London, 221
Corn Trade News, of Liverpool, 221
Corners in wheat, 226
Cort, 53
Covenanters, Scotch, 19, 23, 157
Crichton-Browne, Sir James, 204
Crimean War, 190
Criminals in period of 1809, 8
Crosby, Minneapolis miller, 236
Cross of the Legion of Honor given Cyrus H. McCormick by Emperor Napoleon III., 135
Crystal Palace, London, 127
D
Davis, H. Winter, 99
Davy, 131
Debates between Lincoln and Douglas, 100
Deering, William, 115, 116, 118, 121, 150
De Lesseps, 70
Denmark, 241
Department store, free trial given by, 80
Diet of Worms, 156
Diseases prevalent in 1809, 7
Douglas, Stephen A., 91, 99, 100
Driving-wheel of Reaper, 34
Drunkenness in 1809, 7
Duluth-Superior, 215
Dunfermline, Scotland, Andrew Carnegie's birthplace, 56
Dunwoody, Minneapolis miller, 236
Duties imposed on American machines entering Europe, 136
E
Eager, Samuel, 58
Easter, J. D., 230
Eastern States, labor and money in (about 1839), 58
Edward, King, 132
Egypt once wheat-centre of world and present production in, 242
Egyptian tombs, wheat found in, 206
"1800-and-starve-to-death" period, 51
Elastic currency, demands for, 223
Electric engine, builder of, 95
Electrical experiments, 50
Emerson, Ralph, 45, 46, 98, 103, 119
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 97
England, riots in (1809), 3, 4;
U. S. flag flouted by, 4;
at war with Scotland, 18, 19;
with Ireland, 19;
Scotch-Irish ready for war with, 20;
conditions in (1831), 50;
price of labor in, 123;
labor conditions and farm machinery in, 124;
Corn Exchange in, 218;
speculation in, 224;
consumption of bread in, 239;
no tariff on wheat or flour in, 240;
has lost place as "granary of the North," 240;
contrasted with Germany, 241
Ether, use of, 69
Euphrates, valley of, 228
Europe, introduction of Reaper into, and trade with, 123–138;
cost of growing wheat in, 209;
American wheat exported to, 210;
wheat stored in, 217
F
Factory, rebuilding of, after fire, 31, 152, 182;
present size of, 47, 196–200;
in Virginia, poor transportation from, 64;
McCormick's plan to build his own, 67;
Chicago chosen as site of, 77, 137, 202;
largest in Chicago, 77;
in 1860, 106;
output of, 137;
at time of Chicago fire, 151;
in 1884, 188
Famine of 1846 in Ireland, 71
Famines, local, 51;
in Russia, 242
Farm laborers drawn by 1849 gold rush, 82, 83, 190
Farm machinery, none in 1809, 5, 11;
invention of, 17;
profession of making, 22;
none in 1831, 49;
farmers not using (about 1839), 57, 58;
fixed prices for, 81;
field test as method of marketing, 87;
McCormick's system of selling, 89;
introduction of, in England, 124;
sale of, boomed after 1849, 190;
present era of, 193–195
Farmers, increase of (1810–1820), 11, 21;
their opinions of early types of mowers and reapers, 43;
McCormick's confidence in, 80;
advertising among, and testimonials from, 82;
McCormick stood well with, 85;
his business methods with, 85;
McCormick hurt by petitions of protest from, 94;
credit extended to, 193;
farm machinery used by, 193–195
"Farmer's Register," 43
Fassler, Jerome, 119
Federal bankrupt law of 1842, 71
Field, Cyrus W., 155
Fingers on cutting blade, origin of, 33
Fire department, Chicago, 1846, 72
Fiske, John, 21
Fitch & Co., 66
FitzGerald, 1
Fixed price, Reapers sold at, 80, 81
Flesh food, 205
Flour, manufacture of, 234–237
Food, first necessity, 203, 204;
relation between population and, 204;
three principal articles of, 205
Foreign trade in Reapers, 123, 124, 131–138
Fowler, Miss Nettie, see McCormick, Mrs. Cyrus H.
France, U. S. flag flouted by, 4;
price of labor in, 123;
no central wheat market in, 222;
speculation in, 225;
consumption of bread in, 239, 240;
wheat grown in, 240;
intensive cultivation in, 240
Frederick of Holstein, Prince, 128
Frederick, Virginia, 3
Fredericksruhe, Bismarck's estate, 136
Free library, none in 1831, 50
Free trial of Reaper, 80
French Academy of Science elected Cyrus H. McCormick a member, 136
Froude, 21
Fulton, Robert, 7, 11, 21, 53, 95
Fulton's steamboat, 7
G
Galatz, 216
Galena, Ill., 76
Galilee, Sea of, people who dwell by the, 237
Gammon, E. H., 116
Garrison, William Lloyd, 51
Gas not used in Chicago when Cyrus H. McCormick came, 70
Genoa, 218
Gerland, Dr., 206
Germany in 1809, 4;
price of labor in, 123;
reasons why Reapers are not made in, 136;
grain inspectors in, 222;
legislation against speculation in, 225;
compared with Red River Valley, 231;
compared with Great Britain, 240;
intensive cultivation in, 241
Gilkerson, David, 58
Glanders, a contagious disease, 5
Glessner, Reaper manufacturer, 103, 120
Gold put in circulation by wheat, 228, 229
Gold rush to California, 1849, 82, 190
Grain-car, invention and use of, 211, 212
Granville, Lord, 131
Gray & Warner, 66
Great Britain, see England
Greeley, Horace, 72, 129, 155, 167
Gutenberg, 53
H
Hague, The, Conferences, 233
Hall, Dr. John, 169
Hamburg, 222
Hancock, candidate for President, 171
Hand-labor, Reaper invented in era of, 48, 49
"Hard Times" measures in Legislature, 71
Hargreaves, inventor of weaving machinery, 53
Harper, Henry, publisher, 21
Hart, Eli, & Co., 52
Harvest season only opportunity of testing Reaper, 61, 92
Haussemann, Baron, 1
Hayes, President, 165
Hayes-Tilden controversy, 165
Heathcoat, inventor of weaving machinery, 53
Herald Square, New York, 6
Hewitt, Abram S., 155
Hite, James M., 63
Hitt, Dr. N. M., 37
Hobbs lock, 131
Holland in 1809, 4;
legislation against speculation in, 225;
no tariff on wheat or flour in, 240
Holloway, D. P., 96
Holmes, H. A., 115
Homestead Act of 1862, 193
Hong-Kong, flour-mills at, 243
Houghawout, John W., 40
Houghton, Lord, 1