Self-sizing device, Gorham's invention of, 117
Seneca, quoted, 154
Servia, conditions in (1809), 4
Sèvres porcelain, 53
Seward, William H., 91, 98, 155
Sewerage, none in Chicago when Cyrus H. McCormick came, 70
Sewing-machine, 17, 49, 69, 131, 210
Seymour, Morgan & Co., 66, 116, 119, 120
Sheffield steel used in manufacture of Reapers, 74
Sherwood farm, near Elgin, Ill., 111
Shipping, Chicago becomes centre for, 73, 215
Siberia, Russia seeking seaport for, 204;
wheat crop of, 209, 217;
railway across, 212;
development of, 228;
might take lesson from Red River Valley, 231
Sickle, its use in 1809, 5
Side-draught construction of Reaper, 33, 34
Side-delivery machine, first practical, 46
Skulls, pyramid of, 4
Slaves, work of, 191
Smith, Joshua, 57
Smith, Sidney, 130
Social conditions in 1809, 7–9
Solomon, 206
South Carolina, 97
Spain, in 1809, 4;
wheat imported by, 241
Spaulding, George H., 115
Spencer, Herbert, 51
Spring, Charles, 143
Staunton, Virginia, 2, 40, 57, 58, 60
Steamboat, invention of, 210
Steele, Eliza, 37
Steele's Tavern, Virginia, 37
Stock-yards not located at Chicago when Cyrus H. McCormick came, 70
Surveying, Cyrus H. McCormick's study of, 27
Sweden in 1809, 4;
speculation in grain in, 224;
wheat production in, 241, 242
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Taylor, Dr., 40
Tecumseh, 4
Tehuantepec Inter-Ocean Railroad, 144
Telegraph, 49, 50, 70, 131, 210
Telephone, 210
Temperance society at Saratoga, 7
Tennessee, Scotch-Irish in, 20;
first Reaper purchased in, 63;
comparison of grain production of, 242
Texas, Scotch-Irish in, 20;
not in the Union in 1831, 51
Theatres in early Chicago, 70, 71
Thompson, J. Edgar, 101
Times, Chicago, 166
Times, London, 130
Town and city dwellers, proportion of, 195, 196
Town laborers become farmers, 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
Tyre, King of, 206
Tyrol, riot in (1809), 4
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Union Army in Rockbridge County, Virginia, 36
Union Pacific Railway, 144
United States, in 1809, 4 et seq.;
Scotch-Irish in, 18–21;
papers printed in (1831), 48;
railways in (1831), 49;
extent and development of (1831), 50;
Buffalo chief grain market of, 69;
London Exposition display from, 126;
inventions credited to, 130;
reasons why Reapers were invented in, 136, 201;
McCormick's place in history of, 153;
production of wheat in, 188, 189;
manufacturing and labor in (1884), 189;
Reaper little used in, until after 1849, 190;
Reaper appreciated in, 191;
industrial supremacy of, 195, 229;
harvesting machinery industry in, 201;
wheat crop of, 209;
cost of production of wheat in, 209;
railway across, 211;
grain inspection in, 222;
speculation in, 225;
cultivation of semi-arid land in, 228;
consumption of bread in, 239;
area and population of, compared with India, 242, 243
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Vermont hay crop, relative value of, 5
Virchow, 51
"Virginia Reapers," 64
Virginia, Scotch-Irish in, 20;
main wheat State in 1831, 51, 193;
supremacy passing to Ohio, 67
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Wages of harvesters at time of introduction of Reaper, 38
Wallace, Andrew, 40
Wallace's Farmer, 106
Walton, N. Y., 76
Warder Reaper manufacturer, 103, 120
Warehouses at Reaper agencies, 83, 84
Warfare, expenses of modern, 233
Washburn, William D., 235, 236
Washington, George, 5, 6, 11, 15, 17, 20, 81, 234
Washington State, 238
Watt, 131
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;
McCormick's policy developed the, 86;
Reaper preceded railway in the, 192;
wheat crop of the, 193;
railways in the, 211;
Reaper advance-machine of civilization 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 et seq.
Wheat Congress, international, 233
Whiteley, William N., 45, 46, 120, 150
Whittier, 51
Willmoth, improver of battleship 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
Withington, Charles B., 109–115
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
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Yellow fever in the McCormick family, 16