Cyrus Hall McCormick in Walnut Grove, Va., worked for years to develop a machine to harvest grain. In 1831, he built the first workable reaper. Hall was a cousin to William S. McCormick, one of the early settlers of the Virginia settlement in Wayne County.
There were many improvements on the machine, which was called a binder. In 1915, Brunot dealer Isaac L. Brooks solder this binder to a local farmer, Pink White.
Pink White is seated on the binder and Isaac Brooks is stand left, in the back.
