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Cyrus McCormack
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Fri, 8 May 2009 17:16:33 -0400
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A friend of mine called and asked if I knew anything about who Cyrus McCormack's first Virginia customers were for his reaper.  From the text he had, it sounds like Nelson County was written all over it, but I have not been able to find anything about the Cabells in Nelson County planting wheat in the 1830-1840 time frame.  Everything was tobacco.

Any ideas of where we might find out just who ordered those early reapers.  Apparently both lived on the banks of the James River, and McCormack came up with serrated blades to address the potential problem of cutting damp wheat.

Randy Cabell

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