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The Age of Big Business

CHAPTER VI
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"Can these machines be made in Germany ?" he asked.
"No, your Excellency," came the reply.

"They can be made only in America." The old man gave a sigh.

"Those Yankees are ingenious fellows," he said.
"This is a wonderful machine." In this story of American success, four names stand out preeminently.
The men who made the greatest contributions were Cyrus H.McCormick, C.W.Marsh, Charles B.Withington, and John F.Appleby.The name that stands foremost, of course, is that of McCormick, but each of the others made additions to his invention that have produced the present finished machine.

It seems like the stroke of an ironical fate which decreed that since it was the invention of a Northerner, Eli Whitney, that made inevitable the Civil War, so it was the invention of a Southerner, Cyrus McCormick, that made inevitable the ending of that war in favor of the North.

McCormick was born in Rockbridge County, Virginia, on a farm about eighteen miles from Staunton.


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