era. Official leadership of the company passed to his eldest son Cyrus Hall McCormick Jr., but his grandson Cyrus McCormick III ran the company. Four years later, the company's labor practices (paying workers $9 per week) led to the Haymarket riots. Ultimately Cyrus Jr. teamed with J.P. Morgan to create the International Harvester Corporation in 1902. After Cyrus Hall McCormick Jr., Harold Fowler McCormick ran International Harvester. Various members of the McCormick family continued involvement with the corporation until Brooks McCormick, who died in 2006. Legacy and honors Numerous prizes and medals were awarded McCormick for his reaper, which reduced human labor on farms while increasing productivity. Thus, it contributed to the industrialization of agriculture as well as migration of labor to cities in numerous wheat-growing countries (36 by McCormick's death). The French government named McCormick an Officier de la Légion d'honneur in 1851, and he was elected a corresponding member of the French Academy of Sciences in 1878 "as having done more for the cause of agriculture than any other living man." The Wisconsin Historical Society holds Cyrus McCormick's papers. The Cyrus McCormick Farm, operated by other family members after Cyrus and Leander moved to Chicago, was ultimately donated to Virginia Tech, which operates the core of the property as a free museum, and other sections as an experimental farm. A marker memorializing Cyrus McCormick's contribution to agriculture had been erected near the main house in 1928. A statue of McCormick was erected on the front campus of Washington and Lee University, at Lexington, Virginia. The town of McCormick, South Carolina and McCormick County in the state were named for him after he bought a gold mine in the town, formerly known as Dornsville. 1975, McCormick was inducted into the Junior Achievement U.S. Business Hall of Fame. 3 cent U.S. postage stamps were issued in 1940 to commemorate Cyrus Hall McCormick. See Famous Americans Series of 1940. References Further reading External links Improvement in Machines for Reaping Small Grain: Cyrus H. McCormick, June 21, 1834 Farm Equipment on Antique Farming web site McCormick Family Financial Records at Newberry Library Explore McCormick County South Carolina 1809 births 1884 deaths 19th-century American inventors 19th-century American journalists 19th-century American newspaper publishers (people) American anti-war activists American male journalists American people of Scotch-Irish descent American Presbyterians Burials at Graceland Cemetery (Chicago) Businesspeople from Chicago Illinois Democrats Recipients of the Legion of Honour McCormick