High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! International Harvester
Company (IHC or IH; now Navistar International Corporation) was an
agricultural machinery, construction equipment, vehicle, commercial
truck, and household and commercial products manufacturer. In 1902,
J.P. Morgan purchased the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company and
Deering Harvester Company, along with three smaller agricultural
equipment firms: Milwaukee; Plano; and Warder, Bushnell, and
Glessner (manufacturers of Champion brand). J P Morgan thus formed
International Harvester. International Harvester sold off the Ag
division in 1985 and later renamed the company. Case IH was formed
when the Agricultural Division merged with J.I. Case. The roots of
International Harvester can be traced back to the 1830s, when Cyrus
Hall McCormick, an inventor from Virginia, finalized his version of
a horse- drawn reaper. The reaper was demonstrated in tests in 1831
and was patented by Cyrus in 1834. Together with his brother,
McCormick moved to Chicago in 1847 and started the McCormick
Harvesting Machine Company.
