John
Deere
Born in Rutland, Vermont, United States
Ancestors 
Son of William Deere
and Sarah (Yeats) Deere
[sibling(s) unknown]
Husband of
Damarius (Lamb) Deere
— married
[date unknown] [location unknown]
Husband of
Lucenia (Lamb) Deere
— married
10 May 1866 in Granville, Addison, Vermont, United States
Descendants 
Father of
Francis Albert Deere,
Jeanette (Deere) Chapman,
Ellen Sarah (Deere) Webber,
Frances Alma Deere,
Charles Henry Deere,
Emma Charlotte (Deere) Velie,
Hiram Alvin Deere,
Alice Maria (Deere) Cady and
Mary Frances Deere
Died in Moline, Illinois, United States
Profile last modified
| Created 2 Nov 2012 | Last significant change: 1 Feb 2021
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Biography
John Deere is Notable.
John Deere was an American blacksmith and manufacturer who founded Deere & Company, one of the largest and leading agricultural and construction equipment manufacturers in the world.
He married in 1827 to Demarias Lamb and fathered nine children.
He was a blacksmith by training and by trade. Business conditions weren’t very good in Vermont, so in 1836, Deere decided to move out West to Illinois. There, he found that the traditional wood and iron plows used back East were no match for the farms out West. While New England soil was light and sandy, the prairie sod was heavy and thick. Farmers had to stop frequently to clean soil and clay off of their plow blades. Deere had the idea that a properly shaped blade would scour itself as it went along. He experimented with some new designs and the use of steel , and by 1838 he’d sold three of them to local farmers. He sold 10 the following year, and 40 the year after that. By 1841, he was making and selling a hundred plows a year. Deere’s innovation became known as “The Plow that Broke the Plains.”
Sources
- Detailed biography: https://johndeerejournal.com/2019/09/get-to-know-mr-john-deere/
- Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Deere_(inventor)
- Wikidata: Item Q1776475, en:Wikipedia
- Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 08 December 2018), memorial page for John Deere (7 Feb 1804–17 May 1886), Find A Grave: Memorial #9576, citing Riverside Cemetery, Moline, Rock Island County, Illinois, USA ; Maintained by Find A Grave.
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