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[Up] [Dromo's Den] Leander McCormick Biography McCORMICK,
Leander J., manufacturer, was born Feb. 8, 1819, at Walnut Grove, Va. He was
one of the founders of The McCormick Harvesting Machine company. He took entire
charge of the manufacturing department, and was able to make numerous valuable
improvements upon the original
patterns. Having amassed a sufficient fortune, Mr. McCormick retired from the
concern in 1889, and invested his means largely in stately business edifices in
Chicago and has had the satisfaction of witnessing a great growth in value of
his property. One of his public gifts was a twenty-six-inch refracting
telescope, the largest in the world at the time, to the university of Virginia
in Charlottesville, Va. Thomas William Herringshaw, Herringshaw's Encyclopedia of American Biography of the Nineteenth Century (Chicago: American Publishers' Association, 1901) 633. |