Carl Edwards with his wife Katherine. (Getty). Katherine Downey is the wife of NASCAR driver Carl Edwards, and the couple have now been together for nine years. Downey may not just be one of the smartest and busiest wives in just the NASCAR world, but in the entire professional sports world as well.
Town of McCormick. McCormick County and its county seat, the town of McCormick, were named for inventor Cyrus Hall McCormick (1809-1884). The county was formed in 1916 from parts of Edgefield, Abbeville, and Greenwood counties. This area was settled in the mid-eighteenth century by Scotch-Irish, French Huguenot, and German farmers.
Library of Congress. Cyrus McCormick (1809-1884) was a Chicago industrialist who in 1831 invented the first commercially successful mechanical reaper, a horse-drawn machine to harvest wheat.