Age
7-9
Grade
2-4
Jane Sutcliffe
John Deere
Paperback
(Lernerclassroom Jan. 1, 2007)
Born in Rutland, Vermont, John Deere served a four-year apprenticeship to a blacksmith and worked in that trade until 1837. The implements being used by pioneer farmers of that day were cumbersome and ineffective for cutting and turning the prairie soil. To alleviate the problem, Deere and a partner, Major Leonard Andrus, designed three new plows in 1838. The plow was so successful that by 1846 Deere and his partner were selling a thousand a year. Deere then sold his interest to Andrus and organized a plow company in Moline, Illinois. After experimenting with imported English steel, he had a cast steel plow made for him in Pittsburgh. By 1855 he was selling more than 13,000 such plows a year. In 1868 his business was incorporated as Deere & Company, which is still in existence today.
- Series
- History Maker Bios
- ISBN
- 082256873X / 9780822568735
- Pages
- 48
- Weight
- 3.52 oz.
- Dimensions
- 5.75 x 0.25 in.
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