McCormick Reaper Centennial Source Material -- 1954

              1879—Elected a member of the French Academy of Sciences "As having done more for agriculture than any other living man."
Manufactured and sold the McCormick Iron Mower, a front-cut machine. This mower sold largely between 1879 and 1885.
1880—Manufactured and sold the McCormick Imperial Combined Reaper and Mower. This was a self-rake machine with a mowing attachment.  It sold prin¬ cipally between 1880 and 1885.
Manufactured and sold the McCormick Dropper, a front-cut machine.  This mower sold principally between 1880 and 1885. President of the Virginia Society at Chicago.
1881—Manufactured and sold McCormick Harvester with twine-binding attachment of the John F. Appleby type. This machine, known as the "McCormick Twine Binder," sold very largely for many years.
1882—Sold 48,000 machines.
Manufactured and sold the McCormick Daisy Reaper.  This machine sold extensively for many years.  It was a predecessor of the present Daisy Reaper,
1883—Manufactured and sold McCormick Center Draft Mower.  This machine was only made from 1882 to 1885.
1884—Sold 54,841 machines.
Began the manufacture and sale of the McCormick Steel Twine Binder m this year.
Died in Chicago at Rush Street residence on May 13. -
OPINION OF THE HON. JOSEPH HOLT, COMMISSIONER OF PATENTS, Given January 28, 1859, in the Matter of the Application of Cyrus H. McCormick for an Extension of His Patent of January 31, 1845, for an Improvement in Reaping Machines (Wash., 1859).
"No disposition has been felt to disparage the claims of the appli¬ cant as an inventor. He has, it is alleged, devoted twenty years of his life to perfecting his inventions and introducing them into public use.  For his patience, zeal, and indomitable energy, in the midst of almost lifelong difficulties, and for the genius with which he has surmounted them, he has deserved, and is receiving, the warm commendation of the world. . . He has been so fortunate as to link his name indissolubly with a machine which, unless outstripped in the race of progress, may endure as a proud memorial, so long as the ripening grain shall wave over the boundless plains of the West, or the songs of the reaper shall be heard in its harvest fields."
OPINION OF HON. D. P. HOLLOWAY, COMMISSIONER OF PATENTS, on the Application of Cyrus H. McCormick for the Extension of His Ten Reaping Machine Patents (Wash., 1861).
"Cyrus H. McCormick is an inventor, whose fame . . . has spread throughout the world. His genius has done honor to his own country, and has
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