Hudson Bay, 213
Hulled corn, use of, 69
Hungary, speculation in, 224;
climate and wheat production of, 241
Hunger, evils due to, 204, 205
Huxley, 51
Hyatt, inventor, 95
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Illinois, 64, 65, 69, 100, 151, 193
Immigrants supplied with Reapers on credit, 85, 86
India, opium traffic of, 204;
cost of wheat production and labor in, 209, 242;
railways of, 212;
area and population of, 242, 243;
wasteful methods practised in, 243
Indian Confederacy of Tecumseh, 4
Indian Massacre (1764) in Rockbridge County, Virginia, 2
Indiana wheat crop, 217
Indigo displaced by wheat in India, 242
Insurance agents for wheat, 222–224
Intensive cultivation, 240, 241
International Harvester Company, 183, 201
Inventors not encouraged, 6;
how treated by Congress and the Patent Office, 95;
rights of, as stated by Webster, 95
Ireland, Scotch Covenanters in, 19, 21;
famine of 1846 in, 71
Irish immigrants in Chicago, 71
Iron furnace operated by Cyrus H. McCormick, 55–57
"Iron Man," Atkins's self-rake Reaper, 106, 107
Iron, price of, about 1833, 55, 56
Italy, no central wheat market in, 222;
wheat consumption and production in, 241
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Jacquard, inventor of weaving machinery, 53
Jamestown colony, 36
Janesville, Wis., 114
Japan, object of, in war with Russia, 204;
more wheat consumed and raised in, 243
Jefferson, President, 8, 10, 11, 15, 16
Jenks, Joseph, of Lynn, 5
Johnson, Senator, of Maryland, 96
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Kansas City, 216
Kay, inventor of weaving machinery, 53
Kelly, inventor, 95
Kentucky, Scotch-Irish in, 20
Kinglake, 1
Kinzie, John, 77
Knox, John, 18, 58, 156, 157, 169
Krapotkin, Prince, 204
Kurtz, Jacob, 58
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Land sales from 1810 to 1820, 11
Law-school, first in, Chicago, 71
Lexington Female Academy, 40
Lexington Union, 54
Lexington, Virginia, 37, 39, 40
Licenses to manufacturers of McCormick's Reaper, 66, 98, 112, 116, 120
Lilley, General, 140
Lincoln, Abraham, 1, 2, 51, 72, 91, 99, 100, 191
Lind, Jenny, 184
Livingstone, 70
Locomotives, early, 49, 50, 192, 210
London Exhibition of 1851, 124–127, 130, 131, 190
London, no grain elevators in, 217;
wheat consumption of, 217;
Baltic Exchange in, 221, 222;
methods of wheat marketing in, 225
"Low-down" binder, 118
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Mackenzie, expert Reaper operator, 128
Mail-order houses, free trial given by, 80
Manchuria, wheat raised in, 243
Manitoba, Province of, 225
Mann, inventor, 108
Manny and Emerson, of Rockford, Ill., 98, 103, 119
Manufacturers licensed to build McCormick's Reapers, see under Licenses
Martineau, Miss, 76
Mary, Queen of Scots, 18
Masses benefited by wheat trade, 229
Massie, William, 60
Mazzini, 51
McChesney, Adam, 28
McClung, Billy, 159
McClurg, Alexander C., publisher, 21
McCormick, Miss Anita, see Blame, Mrs. Emmons
McCormick Centenary, 45
McCormick Company, present, 98
McCormick, Cyrus Hall, 2, 3, 11–13, 16–18, 21, 22, 25–28, 30–35, 37–48, 51–68, 71–85, 87–105, 109–113, 115–119, 121–124, 129–191, 193, 195, 198–202, 208, 230, 244, 246
McCormick, Mrs. Cyrus H., 182, 183
McCormick, Cyrus H., Jr., 163, 183, 184, 201
McCormick, Davis, 29
McCormick family, 13, 17, 22–25, 64, 66, 78
McCormick, Harold, 183
McCormick home in Rockbridge County, Virginia, 2, 3, 13–16, 25, 35–37, 40, 48, 62
McCormick, Leander, 37, 123, 140, 143, 181, 182
"McCormick Plan," 167
McCormick, Robert, 13–17, 22, 25, 28–31, 40, 45, 104, 181
McCormick, Mrs. Robert, 23–25, 181
McCormick, Robert, son of Cyrus H. McCormick, 183
McCormick System, 243
McCormick Theological Seminary, 162, 163
McCormick, Thomas, 22
McCormick, Miss Virginia, 183
McCormick, William, 37, 123, 143, 181, 182
McDowell, Col. James, 40
Mecklenburg, Virginia, 20
Melville, Andrew, 169
Mexican War, Chicago organized regiment for, 71
Michigan white ash used in manufacture of Reapers, 74
Milwaukee, 73
Mississippi River, 50
Missouri, 63
Moore, James, 40
Mormons, 69
Morton, Dr., 69
Mount Vernon flour-mill, 234
Mower, Miller's, 120
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Napoleon III., Emperor, 134, 135
Nebraska, 51
New Albany, Ind., Seminary, 162
New England, 230
"New process" flour-mills, 235
New York City, 4, 6, 8, 9, 37, 52, 119, 160, 216
Newspapers in 1831, 50
Newton, John, 59
Niagara Falls, power from, 216
Northwestern Theological Seminary, 162
Norway, speculation in grain in, 225;
wheat production in, 241, 242
Novorossisk, Russia, grain elevator at, 216, 217
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Oats stored at Chicago, 215
Odessa, 217
Oklahoma, 69
Oliver, James, 49
Opium traffic, 204
Oregon, 242
Oriental method of chaffering and bargaining, vogue of, 81
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Pacific coast, no grain elevators on, 216
Page, Prof., 95
Palissy, 53
Papers in 1831, 48
"Parcimony in Nutrition," 204
Paris Exposition (1855), 133
Paris, no grain stored in, 217;
Bourse in, 222
Parker, J., 63
Pasteur, 51
Patent, Cyrus H. McCormick's first, on Reaper, 59;
expiration of original, 91;
suits over extension of, 91–98
Patent Law, 91
Patents for Reaper and mower inventions, 34, 41;
suits over, 45, 90–98;
for self-binders, 118
Patton, Dr. Francis L., 172
Paupers in period of 1809, 8
Paved streets, none in Chicago when Cyrus H. McCormick came, 70
Peavey, F. H., 214
Pennsylvania Railroad, 158;
see also Baggage Case
Pericles, mills in time of, 236
Peterborough, N. H., 50
Photography, 49
Pillsbury, Minneapolis miller, 236
Pittsburg, Pa., 74
Platform on Reaper, origin of, 33
Plow, iron, thought to poison soil, 5;
invention of, 49
Plow, self-sharpening, 45
Police force of Chicago in 1847, 70
Polish female laborers, 197
Pompeii, bread found in ruins of, 234
Poorhouses used as storehouses for wheat, 230
Portugal, 241
Post-office, Chicago, in 1847, 70
Postage in 1831, 50
Postage stamps, 70
Postal Union, 233
"Prairie Ground," American display at London Exhibition of 1851, 126
Prairies, need of Reapers to harvest on the, 65, 73;
uncultivated before advent of Reaper, 67
Prairie States, ten, 230
Presbyterian Church, 158, 185, 186
Princeton University, 172
Protestant Reformation, 156, 185
Publicity, Cyrus H. McCormick believed in policy of, 81
Puddling-furnace, 17
Pyramids, wheat pictured on, 206
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Railway from Chicago to Galena, 76
Railways in 1831, 49;
extending westward, 67;
none reaching Chicago when Cyrus H. McCormick came, 70;
Chicago becomes a centre for, 73;
preceded by Reaper in West, 192;
distribution of food-stuffs by, 210, 211;
building of trans-continental, 211;
across Siberia, 212;
in western Canada, Argentina, and India, 212;
as wheat-conveyors, 212;
converging at Chicago, 214;
in Prairie States, 230
Ready-to-eat foods, 237
Reaper, McCormick, 13, 17, 28–48, 52–67, 73–76, 78–86, 88, 89, 92, 95–98, 100, 103–108, 110–113, 115, 117, 119–124, 126–135, 137, 138, 147, 166, 169, 170, 188–193, 195, 196, 200–203, 208, 210, 212, 214, 226, 227, 230, 243–246
Reapers of all makes, total annual production of, 209
Reciprocating blade, origin of, 32
Red River Valley, 194, 231, 232
Reed, Col. Samuel, 40
Republican party, 100
Riots in 1837, 52
"River and Harbor Convention," Chicago, 71, 72
Rochester, N. Y., 234
Rockbridge County, Virginia, McCormick farm in, 2
Rotterdam, wheat stored in, 217
Roumania, 242
Roumanian cities use concrete grain elevators, 216
Rubber manufacture, inventor of, 53
Russia, farm laborers received no wages in, 123;
in war with Japan, 204;
development of, 228;
wheat production, consumption, and exportation in, 242;
famines in, 242
Russian army in Sweden (1809), 4
Russo-Japanese War, 204
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Sailors become farmers, 11
Sales system of Cyrus H. McCormick, 47, 78 et seq.
Saratoga, N. Y., 7
Sault Ste. Marie Canal, 210
Sauvage, inventor of screw propeller, 53
School attended by Cyrus H. McCormick, 26
Scotch-Irish, the, 17–23, 25, 29
Screw propeller, inventor of, 53
Scribner, Charles, publisher, 21
Scythe, invention of, 5
Secession, War of, 100, 166–168, 191, 192