On this date...

in 1902,the International Harvester Company was formed. It was a merger of several different smaller equipment manufactureing companys.
 
For you IH fans. Found two of these in my grandfather's table. Calendar is 1898 if you can't see it in the picture. I remember the old reaper in a shed on his farm..
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As I've read someplace, McCormick and Deering had been fighting each other so much over patent infringement & borrowing money for the lawyers from financier J P Morgan that his "venture capital" firm "owned" both companies. He basically got both McCormick and Deering together in a hotel room and made them form a new company so they could go "international" with the products they had. Morgan's management team was to run the new corporation for a minimum of ten years. As a result International Harvester Company became a global giant.
 

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