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.
1824 At the age of 15, he invented a lightweight cradle for carting harvested grain 1831 Cyrus improves the reaper designed by his father Robert McCormick 1834 Patent issued to Cyrus McCormick as the inventor of the mechanical reaper 1847 a factory is constructed in Chicago to produce 500 reapers for the 1848 harvest 1859 Brothers Leander and William each receive one-fourth of the Cyrus McCormick & Brothers Co.