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Born February 7, 1804, in Rutland Vermont, John Deere spent most of his childhood in a common school and then serving a four year apprenticeship in Black Smith Trade in Middlebury. In 1825 His Journey as a Blacksmith began and soon he gained considerable fame for his careful workmanship and ingenuity. He began with Highly polished Hay Forks and Shovels which soon were in great demand. As the economy started to fail and the pioneers migrated west, so did John Deere. His wife and children joined him later, and in 1836 he had built his own forge and was busy again serving his community. As the pioneers started tillage of their new land, they found that the cast iron plows that they had brought with them would not work since they had been designed for the sandy airy soil of the east. The Mid-western soil clung to the plows which caused plowing to be very slow and laborious. To the drawing board hen John. Studying the problem he thought that a properly made plow, highly polished with the correct moldboard would work. In 1837 John made the first steel plow from a broken saw blade. Tested and proven, this was the answer the pioneers in the west needed to be successful farmers. John during this time then went and revolutionized the art of sale. He would produce the plows and then take them into the country for sale. As he proceeded with this he was able to create a supply and demand that had not been see before.. As he proceeded he happened to run into many bumps caused by few banks, poor transportation and the major problem of scarcity of steel. His first plows were made with any steel he could find. In 1843 he ordered his first shipment of steel to be brought in from England. This specially rolled steel was shipped across the Atlantic on a steamship, the up the Mississippi and Illinois Rivers and then overland by wagon over 40 miles finally to the plow factory in Grand Detour. Then in 1846 the first slab of cast steel for plows was made for John Deere in Pittsburgh and shipped to Moline Illinois where it was made ready for his factory that John Deere opened in 1848, where he took advantage of the water power by the Mississippi River. He was within ten years producing over 1000 plows a year and since then the company has been able to continue on with his motto which as always been "Never put your name on a product unless it has the best of you put into it. Since the first plow was produced John Deere and his company have not looked back on their continuing strive for perfection in both performance and quality of their product. |
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