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English: Portrait of inventor Obed Hussey (1782?-1860) as it appeared in W.T. Hutchinson's biography of Cyrus Hall McCormick. He is wearing an eye patch over his left eye. Hussey demonstrated a mechanical reaper around the same time that Cyrus McCormick first demonstrated his machine. Hussey and McCormick were parties in a lengthy lawsuit regarding the invention of the "first reaper."
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Source Wisconsin Historical Society; http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/Content.aspx?dsNav=N:4294963828-4294955414&dsRecordDetails=R:IM24855
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8 January 1850Gregorian

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