Talk:Cyrus McCormick

message: Small joke found in compilations of student history reports. "The McCormick raper did the work of 100 men." --Jmccorm 06:01, 29 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: comments

message: Is it mentioned about the castle-like structure he built in Pennsylvania.
I know you might not believe this, but it's true.  The house he built in 1810 in Marion Center, PA, is my current home. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Unknown Interval  (talk • contribs) 03:05, 7 August 2007
:Even more amazing since he was only a year old at the time! Probably nonsense. W Nowicki (talk) 04:30, 18 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: McCormick

message: "The invention of the reaper made farming far more efficient, and resulted in a global shift of labor from farmlands to cities."
This needs more explanation, it's probably at least partially true, but without some more background it verges on meriting a fact template. --babbage 16:38, 10 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: labor to cities

message: Say, are all the McCormicks dead??
Eenyminy 03:51, 2 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Does it end here??

message: History International's program on harvesters in the "Modern Marvels" series states that McCormick was denied a patent in 1848, presumably because the US Government did not want so important a product in limited production.  However, if that were the case, other manufacturers could have paid royalties to McCormick.  Anybody have more info?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.223.6.208 (talk) 21:28, 19 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Patent Denied?

message: In the notes section  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.193.164.236 (talk) 06:15, 25 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Reapist, not Rapist

message: The Manny/Lincoln factoids are interesting, to be sure.  But I'm not sure if that much side- information is really relevant and encyclopedic -- in the article about Cyrus McCormick. (24.68.250.200 (talk) 17:46, 17 May 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed. That section, tangential to McCormick, should be trimmed way back. MarmadukePercy (talk) 17:48, 17 May 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: "Tangential" is an understatement. The section, aside from the fact of the suit itself and McCormick's loss is completely irrelevant to McCormick. Even Lincoln's involvement is irrelevant as Lincoln had no bearing on the outcome. Furthermore, it contains a lot of subjectively written narrative. The whole bit should be moved into Lincoln article.
Alex.deWitte (talk) 20:57, 23 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Manny/Lincoln

message: :His last words, before passing into unconsciousness, were "It's all right. It's all right.  I only want...." 
I have not been able to verify this, and it conflicts with other sources that say his last words were "work, work". So I will remove it. [added later] I was able to get this book from archive.org. However, it does not have elipses but the sentence is "I only want Heaven". Still conflicts with Casson. Either way, not sure this is apropriate for a modern encyclopedia. W Nowicki (talk) 21:08, 18 January 2011 (UTC)
replies: text:  W, it's all nonsense, since it is almost certainly apocryphal, as most stories of this nature are. Try to focus on substance and spell "plagiarism" correctly.  Alex.deWitte (talk) 04:09, 7 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Last words

message: The article states; "On January 26, 1858 he married Nancy Fowler (1835–1923), better known as "Nettie".[20] They had seven children:" Only six are listed. Who was "the black sheep of the family"? ```Buster Seven Talk 00:47, 16 March 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Given the era, it's likely this seventh child died young, and is therefore unnamed.--Auric  talk 02:23, 16 March 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Point understood. But if you check the other McCormick family pages, they name deceased young children. Ill do some research and see what turns up. ```Buster Seven Talk 02:32, 16 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Seven Children

message: I passed the Cyrus McCormick Farm yesterday and upon returning home noticed this article needed lots of cleanup, for which I really don't have the time. However, especially since I benefitted from access to the International Harvester archives as a student, I squeezed in some revisions this morning.Jweaver28 (talk) 12:48, 12 June 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: More cleanup needed

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message: The lede mentions that Jo Anderson had a role in developing the mechanical reaper, but the article gives no further details about this.
If he really had a significant role, please add details to the article.
If not, delete:  Wikipedia is not a place for racism. 2601:281:D480:47F0:9827:C96C:E76A:81F2 (talk) 13:37, 31 July 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Jo Anderson