Brooks McCormick was the great-grandnephew of the man who invented the mechanical reaper and the last member of the McCormick family to play an active role in International Harvester, the company ...

International Harvester (IH) is emblematic of how thin ... The company was founded in 1902 through a merger between McCormick ...

The subject of the McCormick brothers and their development of the “Virginia Reaper” and what later became the Chicago conglomerate, International Harvester, call forth-innumerable ironies and ...

The history of International Harvester reaches back to the early 1830s, when Cyrus McCormick invented a mechanical reaper that could replace many laborers working with harvesting scythes. By 1847, ...

Mr. McCormick died Saturday in Doctors Hospital, Miami. He was the great-grandson of William Deering, the founder of Deering Harvester Co., which later became part of International Harvester.

McCormick was responsible for International Harvester’s successful consolidation. During his tenure, the firm developed more efficient types of machines, research departments were greatly expanded ...