biography
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Case, Jerome (Increase)
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1818–91)
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| biography:
| Manufacturer, born in Williamstown, New York, USA. He got his start in the threshing business, running his father's horse-drawn machine. In 1842 he bought six threshers and moved to Racine, WI, where he sold five and operated the sixth. He combined a thresher and a chaff separator (1844) and by 1880 had incorporated as the J I Case Threshing Machine Co. A founder of two banks, he also served as Mayor of Racine and helped found the Wisconsin Academy of Science, Art, and Letters. |
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