Cyrus McCormick, in full Cyrus Hall McCormick, (born February 15, 1809, Rockbridge county, Virginia, U.S.âdied May 13, 1884, Chicago, Illinois), American industrialist and inventor who is generally credited with the development (from 1831) of the mechanical reaper.
The Hayes had eight children, seven boys and a girl. Five of the children survived to adulthood. The children were raised at Spiegel Grove, the home of President Hayes which is in (what was rural but what is now central) Fremont, Ohio. Three of their children died in infancy.
The Hayes children were: Ira (1923â1955), Harold (1924â1925), Arlene (1926â1929), Leonard (1927â1952), Vernon (1929â1958), and Kenneth (born 1931). [7] Joseph Hayes was a World War I veteran who supported his family by subsistence farming and it's cotton harvesting. [8]