  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; 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; Australian stripper, 200 Austria in 1809, 4; Austrian Emperor decorated Cyrus H. McCormick, 135 Ayrshire, Scotland, 86 B Babylon, 206 Baggage Case, 1862–1885, 100–102; 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; 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; Brooks, Absalom, 58 Brown, A. C., 66 Brown, Senator, of Miss., 93 Bryant, 76 Buckle, 204 Budapest, Bourse in, 222; 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; Canada (western), wheat crop of, 209; 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; 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; 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; Ether, use of, 69 Euphrates, valley of, 228 Europe, introduction of Reaper into, and trade with, 123–138; F Factory, rebuilding of, after fire, 31, 152, 182; Famine of 1846 in Ireland, 71 Famines, local, 51; Farm laborers drawn by 1849 gold rush, 82, 83, 190 Farm machinery, none in 1809, 5, 11; Farmers, increase of (1810–1820), 11, 21; "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; Foreign trade in Reapers, 123, 124, 131–138 Fowler, Miss Nettie, see McCormick, Mrs. Cyrus H. France, U. S. flag flouted by, 4; 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; 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; 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 Hudson Bay, 213 Hulled corn, use of, 69 Hungary, speculation in, 224; Hunger, evils due to, 204, 205 Huxley, 51 Hyatt, inventor, 95 I Illinois, 64, 65, 69, 100, 151, 193 Immigrants supplied with Reapers on credit, 85, 86 India, opium traffic of, 204; 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; Ireland, Scotch Covenanters in, 19, 21; 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; J Jacquard, inventor of weaving machinery, 53 Jamestown colony, 36 Janesville, Wis., 114 Japan, object of, in war with Russia, 204; Jefferson, President, 8, 10, 11, 15, 16 Jenks, Joseph, of Lynn, 5 Johnson, Senator, of Maryland, 96 K 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 L 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; "Low-down" binder, 118 M 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 N 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; Novorossisk, Russia, grain elevator at, 216, 217 O 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 P 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; Parker, J., 63 Pasteur, 51 Patent, Cyrus H. McCormick's first, on Reaper, 59; Patent Law, 91 Patents for Reaper and mower inventions, 34, 41; 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; 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; 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; 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 R Railway from Chicago to Galena, 76 Railways in 1831, 49; 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; Russian army in Sweden (1809), 4 Russo-Japanese War, 204 S 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 Self-rake Reapers, 106, 107, 110, 114 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; 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; 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; T 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; Texas, Scotch-Irish in, 20; 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 U Union Army in Rockbridge County, Virginia, 36 Union Pacific Railway, 144 United States, in 1809, 4 et seq.; V Vermont hay crop, relative value of, 5 Virchow, 51 "Virginia Reapers," 64 Virginia, Scotch-Irish in, 20; W 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; 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 Y Yellow fever in the McCormick family, 16Transcriber's Note Simple typographical errors were corrected. Punctuation and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in this book; otherwise they were not changed. Page 64: The lower portion of the illustration "AN EARLY ADVERTISEMENT FOR McCORMICK'S PATENT VIRGINIA REAPER" was not readable in the source from which this eBook is derived. Page 91: "Beverdy Johnson" corrected to "Reverdy Johnson." Page 256: "see Blaine" corrected to "see Blame." Cover revisions made by Transcriber and placed in the Public Domain. 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