John deere biographies books

We tend to think of John Deere as tractors and green hats and forget that John Deere was an actual person.

The John Deere Story by Neil Dahlstrom | Hardcover | Cornell ...

A person who never built, or even saw, a real tractor in his life. Speedracer had to do a famous American project one year so the whole family got a big dose of John-Deere-the-real-person for a few weeks. It turns out there’s a lot of biographical information available about John Deere, but it can be hard to get your hands on because it’s buried under all the tractor books!

Here’s a quick biographical sketch of the man behind the company, along with a list of resources that would put together a nice little unit study.

John Deere was born in Vermont in 1804 to a poor, working-class family.

His father disappeared at sea in 1806 and he was raised by a single mother.

Top Ten John Deere History Books - Neil Dahlstrom

He probably had very little education and apprenticed himself out to a blacksmith when he was 17. He worked and traveled extensively through Vermont for about 15 year The John Deere story : a biography of plowmakers John ... GIDY