. Hill's album of biography and art : containing portraits and pen-sketches of many persons who have been and are prominent as religionists, military heroes, inventors, financiers, scientists, explorers, writers, physicians, actors, lawyers, musicians, artists, poets, sovereigns, humorists, orators and statesmen, together with chapters relating to history, science, and important work in which prominent people have been engaged at various periods of time. THE SUCCESSIVE STEPS FROM THE GRAIN-CRADLE TO THE N THE I5thof Ffbniary. 1809, al Wal-nut Grove, Rockbridge county,Va., Cyrus H. McC
. Hill's album of biography and art : containing portraits and pen-sketches of many persons who have been and are prominent as religionists, military heroes, inventors, financiers, scientists, explorers, writers, physicians, actors, lawyers, musicians, artists, poets, sovereigns, humorists, orators and statesmen, together with chapters relating to history, science, and important work in which prominent people have been engaged at various periods of time. THE SUCCESSIVE STEPS FROM THE GRAIN-CRADLE TO THE N THE I5thof Ffbniary. 1809, al Wal-nut Grove, Rockbridge county,Va., Cyrus H. McCormick wasbom. His parents, natives ofthat State, were of Scotch-Irishdescent. His father, who was anextensive farmer, had all theappliances for keeping the farmmachinery in order, in his shopsfor blacksmithing, carpenteringand machinery. Possessed of aninven-t i V e genius, he constructed several machines upon which he obtained patents, among them being threshing, hydraulic and hemp-breaking. In 1816 he had invented a reaping machine that served the pur-pose where grain was not lodged. For sixteen years he labored to perfect this machine, but at last abandoned it as iini)racticable. The son, Cyrus H., took up thL- idea where his father left it and continued to experiment. He was possessed of an ordinary education, such as could be acquired in the common schools of that vicinity, and inventive genius such as had enabled him. at the age of fifteen, to perfect a cradle with which he worked with the men in
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