Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1893-06-25

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Tnx NoDguD pou ouuorR
vs. she heed Or ptstars - steshe Of
Abraham Lincoln- Wha4 did he do
for the artsf ssled-
The reply came wondroualy quick;
he did only one thing. and that VS. In
1880 10 patent IN sppasstus Sos bnoy-
ing vessels which I'D 90 aground ~
suagged In tho woG1esu rivera The
patent lawyer wluoo Mr.. Haeoln en-
ployed sGill lives In Wsahington city.
at tho age Of sbout sg-MF. Z. e. Rob
bins. The model n In the patent Of
dee. This WAS few years only after
Ericsson had patented the screw pro-
pellsr.
] thought to myself Again: ''fIow
many reaping machines are there?"
Lincoln was . lawyer IN the McCor-
mick reaper case Who nss the No
Cormicks?
In the year 1854 Silas II. Mccormack.
of Rockbridge county. We. and that Is
tho county where the natural bridge
stands, took out . patent for cutting
grain Of all kinda IL took the medal
1T the worlds fair In London Of 1851.
cut twenty acres Of grain .
day, was renewed In 1875, and
expired after the close Of the civil
war, having yielded the patentee
between one and two millions Of dol
lars Soon after 1870 J. Reid. Of I'LL
nois, and w. X. Ketchum patented
reapers. It Is 10 be observed that the
great exhibition of 1851 mainly
brought out the superiority Of Amer
lean agriculture machine petentA
In 1889 . great held trial Of mower,
and reapers was held nj Geneva. \. ".
which was followed up. and In 1857.
1T Syracuse, fifteen moving. nine reap
ing and fourteen combination ma
chimes were entered for competition.
We had then patented one hundred and
scventy-six harv esters and sixty-two
moving machines. and have aadcd
about one hundred to two hundred
every year since. One of thcse minor
machines, invented in Illinois by John
II. Nanny, became the basis Of the
Hoosick Falls mower. Looking over
the history Of such hsrvestexs, Il would
seem that they were slnost invariably
invented In the harvest field or in
shops adjacent TO the harvest Geld.
The McCormicLs have acquircd fine
real estate in Chicago. have called Z
hotel there from their native Virginia,
have given money 10 tho Univcrsity Of
Virginia, where they hsge sent sorne
of their children to be educated. and
have intermarried with the Blaines,
Medills and other efficient families In
Chicago.
The west is full Of windmills and
they were not much known until re-
cent years, and a. I looked over the
wide range Of -four and other milling
machinery. wondered Il there waa
any place To find the successful story
of the mill in this country.
II seems that the sswmill was an
American invention in very early days
and that we employed windmills ON
American coasts before they were used
In England. The Dutch colonists II
Manhattan used them first, no doubt
and as their colony extended from the
Connecticut river to Virgins. they had
n wide introduction. The first mill
stones sent over here from England
paid eleven pounds freight In los. IL
1895 one Of the fremont hills in Bos
ton was called Windmill hilL People
first used mortars and hand mills "a
make their meals and -four; for good
while Virginia sent meal 10 MAssschu.
sets Tho alleged Runic or North
man ruin at Newport Is part Of the old
Colonial mill, and IL was built In fact
by Gov. benedict Arnold. ancestor O.
the traitor, who rcfers 70 Il In his will
~ my stoue-built windmill II
seems that lingo Jones. celebrated
architect, built the foundation Of .
mill just like this Ut Chssterton. Eng
land
The mills had 30 extended around
Long Island and New Jersey that Gov
Andres In iGTs gave New York city q
monopoly of the making and boiling oi
-four. refusing tn let any be imported
into New York but what should %
ground there.
The Rochester mflls, which GROUND
eight hundred thousand barr~lsof eoul
thirty years ago. had beginning IN
1859.
The Brapdywine cr~ek. which emp
ties into the Delaware NJ Wilmington
had. two hundred years ago. one hun
dre5 and thirty improved mill site'
upon 10. and one set Of mills nil stand
ing ground four huadred Thousand
bushels 81 grain PEAR. In The msds
Of this superior milling sc~scty Olives
Evans commenced his inv~ntfons. Z
man well worthy . statue soms~herS
la this country. lie was the evst isa
portsnt inventor II mill machinery fo'
grain, and he rusAe millssooes nesl
Phiisaslphis.
The co~rse az invsntnvs end lnvee
ticns IL toward the newest nsh<is q
conquest A mon vho y Aotne som~
thing In The s~~e N . limited aeld By
ssd ~ sa iavesttca- ts~nnfsss Nat Ia
vcnstoa N er~asss 80 when h
hess~ II ~ TIE clA vsehevs 81 hsuu
sboat Nosfnih snd Ilnisssux~ mp~~d =
Cincnpssi when shey Sc~nA 49, c~k
cure =. many usore hsms N shss ~
sicn. The NeCxuteAs moved sros
ths high rsrss ~ visg>csA wAevv
nseansssn wheat vss Fo1sed wAsc,
we~ii exr~wt shrv~gh ne tcps>s h
fs<sas. cue ~ IRE far wesA whers he,
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