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Jerome Case

19th century American businessman and politician

Jerome Increase Case (December 11, 1819 – December 22, 1891) was an early American manufacturer of threshing machines. He founded the J. I. Case Company which has gone through many mergers and name changes to today's Case Corporation.²

From Wikipedia’s article on Jerome Case (this version), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Born Dec 11, 1819, died Dec 22, 1891.¹

About

He served three terms as mayor of Racine, Wisconsin, and represented Racine County in the Wisconsin State Senate in 1865 and 1866. He also raised champion race horses.

From Wikipedia’s article on Jerome Case, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.²

Companies

Case Construction EquipmentFounder¹¹
Case CorporationFounder¹²

Early life and education

Jerome Increase Case was born December 11, 1819, in Williamstown in Oswego County, New York.

His father was Caleb Case (1787–1874) and mother Deborah Jackson (1789–1833). He was one of seven children.

Through his mother he claimed to be related to Andrew Jackson.

His father sold some primitive "ground hog" machines (imported from England) that helped speed up the separation of grain after it was harvested. In 1840, Jerome started a small business threshing his neighbors' crops with the horse-powered devices. In the summer of 1842, he bought six of the machines on credit and traveled first to Chicago by ship. On his way north to Rochester, Wisconsin he sold five and kept one for his own business.

Through the winter he worked on improvements to the thresher, but the new model was not ready for the 1843 harvest.

By May 1844 the new model which did a better job of fully separating the grain was working. Since Rochester did not have water power available, he moved to Racine, Wisconsin.

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Career

Occupation: politician, businessperson.⁶

Date not recordedFounded Case Construction Equipment³
Date not recordedFounded Case Corporation⁴
Date not recordedMember of the State Senate of Wisconsin⁵

Personal life

BornDec 11, 1819, Williamstown⁷
DiedDec 22, 1891, Racine⁸
CitizenshipUnited States⁹
SpouseLydia Ann Bull¹⁰

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