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John Deere (History Maker Bios): Company Founders

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True or False? John Deere invented the first steel plow.

False! Others had made steel plows, but John Deere made the first one that successfully slipped through the rich, sticky prairie soil.

  • He quit school at age seventeen to learn the skills of a blacksmith.
  • His first two blacksmith shops burned to the ground.
  • He became a wealthy man who donated lots of money to build libraries, schools, and churches.