Another surprise in courthouse records had to do with John Deere...not a tractor, but the man, whose name has been carried across more farm fields through the years than any other.
He was still alive in Moline, Illinois, when an immigrant family sought employment in his plow factory. Some of the younger members were even employed as maids in his household, and a young man as a driver ...
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