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^ a b c ' John Deere: A Biography Archived April 10, 2007, at the Wayback Machine,' Deere & Company, official website.^ 'Did John Deere's Best Invention Spark a Revolution or an Environmental Disaster?'.^ 'Founder John Deere - Past Leaders - John Deere US'.^ About John Deere Archived May 5, 2007, at the Wayback Machine.Deere came to the conclusion that a plow made out of highly polished steel and a correctly shaped moldboard (the self-scouring steel plow) would be better able to handle the soil conditions of the prairie, especially its sticky clay. Deere found that cast-iron plows were not working very well in the tough prairie soil of Illinois and remembered the needles he had previously polished by running them through sand as he grew up in his father's tailor shop in Rutland. At the time, Deere had no difficulty finding work due to a lack of blacksmiths working in the area. John Deere settled in Grand Detour, Illinois. Deere worked in Burlington before opening his own shops, first in Vergennes, and then in Leicester. He married Demarius Lamb in 1827 and fathered nine children. After a brief educational period at Middlebury College, at age 17 in 1821, he began an apprenticeship with Captain Benjamin Lawrence, a successful Middlebury blacksmith, and entered the trade for himself in 1826. John Deere was born on February 7, 1804, in Rutland, Vermont. Born in Rutland, Vermont, Deere moved to Illinois and invented the first commercially successful steel plow in 1837. John Deere (Febru – May 17, 1886) was an American blacksmith and manufacturer who founded Deere & Company, one of the largest and leading agricultural and construction-equipment manufacturers in the world.

Inventor steel