Tractor:International

Cyrus McCormick, inventor of an 1831 horse-drawn reaper, founded the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company in Chicago in 1847. Always a struggling business, the company merged with the Deering Harvester Company and three smaller farm-equipment manufacturing firms in 1902 to form International Harvester company. IH made farm equipment into the 1980s when a faltering economy, labor strife, and bad management forced the company to cease production of farm equipment. The company made several lines of tractors and harvesting products over the years, including International, Titan, Mogul, McCormick-Deering, Farmall, and Fairway.