Summary Information

Title: Stephen McCormick Papers
Inclusive Dates: 1827-1838

Creator:

• McCormick, Stephen, 1784-1875

Call Number: McCormick Mss J

Quantity: 0.5 c.f. (1 archives box and 1 flat box)

Repository:

Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

COLLECTION MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry to request materials and for additional information.

Abstract:

Papers of Stephen McCormick, Auburn, Virginia, inventor of a cast-iron plow, consisting of one account book, 1827-1838, recording plows sold and repaired, farm produce, and labor costs; two daybooks, 1832-1833 and 1838, for a general store, one probably operated by his son-in-law's father, J. W. Catlett, in which many entries appear for Stephen McCormick and his family; a patent, October 22, 1828, signed by John Quincy Adams; and specifications for improvements in McCormick's plow. (Any relationship with Cyrus Hall McCormick's own family line would have been very distant.)

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-mcc0000j

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