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CYRUS HALL McCORMICK
HIS LIFE AND WORK
CYRUS HALL McCORMICK
HIS LIFE AND WORK
BY
HERBERT N. CASSON
Author of
"The Romance of Steel," "The Romance of the Reaper," etc.
ILLUSTRATED
CHICAGO
A. C. McCLURG & CO.
1909
Copyright
A. C. McCLURG & Co.
1909
Published October, 1909
Entered at Stationers' Hall, London, England
The Lakeside Press
R. R. DONNELLEY & SONS COMPANY
CHICAGO
INTRODUCTION
WHOEVER wishes to understand the makingof the United States must read thelife of Cyrus Hall McCormick. No other oneman so truly represented the dawn of the industrialera,—the grapple of the pioneer withthe crudities of a new country, the replacing ofmuscle with machinery, and the establishmentof better ways and better times in farm and cityalike. Beginning exactly one hundred years ago,the life of McCormick spanned the heroic periodof our industrial advancement, when great thingswere done by great individuals. To know McCormickis to know what type of man it waswho created