About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 27. Chapters: Buildings and structures in Fulton County, Illinois, Canton, Illinois, Education in Fulton County, Illinois, Geography of Fulton County, Illinois, National Register of Historic Places in Fulton County, Illinois, People from Fulton County, Illinois, Illinois River, International Harvester, Spoon River College, Smiley Burnette, National Register of Historic Places listings in Fulton County, Illinois, Edgar Lee Masters, William Pitt Kellogg, E.B. Harris, Dave Rudabaugh, Spoon River Anthology, Bybee, Illinois, Ken Carpenter, Dickson Mounds, 1975 Canton, Illinois tornado, Harry P. Deuel, Skeeter Bonn, Civer, Illinois, John Tipton, Camp Ellis, Frank F. Ross, Thomas Ray Hamer, WCDD, Frank Lovell, William Kellogg, Canton High School, Tuscumbia, Illinois, WBYS, Orendorf Site, Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Station, Sugarville, Illinois, Parlin Library, Ulysses G. Orendorff House, South Fulton Churchhouse, Vermont Masonic Hall, Fulton Democrat. Excerpt: International Harvester Company (IHC or IH) was a United States agricultural machinery, construction equipment, vehicle, commercial truck, and household and commercial products manufacturer. In 1902, J.P. Morgan merged the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company and Deering Harvester Company, along with three smaller agricultural equipment firms, to form International Harvester. International Harvester sold off its agricultural division in 1985 and renamed the company Navistar International Corporation in 1986. Case IH was formed when the agricultural division merged with J.I. Case. Cyrus Hall McCormick patented an early mechanical reaper The roots of International Harvester run to the 1830s, when Cyrus Hall McCormick, an inventor from Virginia, finalized his version of a horse-drawn reaper, which he field-demonstrated throughout 1831, and for which he received a patent in...
