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Born in 1816, Jerome Increase Case founded the J I Case Company in 1842. Soon he gained his recognition as the first builder of a steam engine for agricultural use. During his time as president of the company, Case manufactured more threshing machine and steam engines then any other company. 1831 Cyrus Hall McCormick created and demonstrated the first successful reaper. This reaper had a self raking feature which allowed on man to do 40 acres a day versus what 5 men could do by hand. McCormick Harvesting Company created one of the fastest growing and aggressive sales systems in the continent. They had a network of branch houses across the continent, had sponsored advertising, credit for purchasing machines and Modifications to those machine were free of Charge. In 1843 Jerome Case moved to Racine Wisconsin where he built a factory to be able to produce his threshers. At this factory he was able to increase his production due to Water Power off of Lake Michigan, plus improve his threshers. In 1863 Jerome Case takes on three partners to create J I Case and Company, who soon became known as the Big 4. Jerome Case, Massena Erskine, Robert Baker and Stephen Bull. In 1869 the first Case Steam Engine was produced and produced over 36000 in the next years. Old #1 which now sites in the Smithsonian was wheel mounted but still needed to be drawn by horse and was technically only used for belt power. 15 years later the need for more power brought on the Steam Engine Boom. The Great Chicago fire destroys the original factory so JI Case of Racine offers to build machines for McCormick, but McCormick refuses and they went on to build a new much larger production plant in southwest Chicago called McCormick Works. Meanwhile Case's steam engine sales doubled to 220 units and Case ships it first thresher overseas where it won a prize at the Paris Expo, before it went to work on a French farm. J I Case Threshing Company is created after the dissolve of J I Case and Company, the next year McCormick builds the very successful Twine Binder which spawns many competitors and leads to the "Harvester Wars". 1891 Jerome Increase Case dies, but his company lives on today.
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