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.
After the war, he served in the U.S. Congress from 1865 to 1867 as a Republican. Hayes left Congress to run for Governor of Ohio and was elected to two consecutive terms, from 1868 to 1872, and then to a third term, from 1876 to 1877.