John Deere, the man, was born in Rutland, Vermont, on February 7, 1804. His boyhood was spent in and around a number of rural communities, where he received a basic education in the small schoolhouses ...

When John Deere picked up a broken bandsaw blade at an Illinois mill, brushed away the sawdust, and carted home the steel in 1837, he set agricultural revolution in motion via industrial scale ...