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Pioneers in the Farm Implement Industry: Seymour & Morgan and their Relationship with Cyrus McCormick
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The Spectrum: A Scholars Day Journal, V. 9, Issue 1, Fall 2025
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Fall 2025
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2025-11
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The primary objective of this research seeks to further publicize and understand the business relationship Dayton S. Morgan and William H. Seymour of Brockport, NY, with Cyrus H. McCormick of Walnut Grove, Virginia, whose family went on to found one of the most iconic tractor and farm implement brands, International Harvester (now owned by Case New Holland). These men worked together making reapers for the harvesting of wheat. Their relationship is not one that has been studied in much detail, despite a court case involving both parties going all the way to the Supreme Court. The mid-to-late 19th century had a cutthroat business environment, and the farm implement industry was no exception, with patent wars being fought because of The Spectrum, a Scholars Day Journal, V. 9, Issue 1, Fall 2025 58 invention piracy. In this case, a bitter patent war was waged over the design of the hay reaper. Using primary and secondary sources I will explore the business relationship between Seymour & Morgan and McCormick, what led up to their patent litigation, as well as its aftermath.
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