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.
Rutherford Birchard Hayes (October 4, 1822 â January 17, 1893) was the 19th President of the United States (1877â81). As president, he oversaw the end of Reconstruction, began the efforts that led to civil service reform, and attempted to reconcile the divisions left over from the Civil War and Reconstruction. Hayes, an attorney in Ohio, was city solicitor of Cincinnati from 1858 to 1861.