Achievements:
1821 - At the age of seventeen, Deere leaves home to begin a 4-year apprenticeship in the blacksmith shop of Captain Benjamin Lawrence in Middlebury, Vermont
1837 - Develops first commercially successful self-scouring steel plow
1838 -He continues in his general blacksmithing business, producing only a few plows before moving into the plow business full-time.
1841 - Deere makes 75 plows
1848 - Moves company to Moline, Illinois, becoming partners with Robert Tate and John Gould.
1849 - Deere's workforce of about 16 builds 2,136 plows. The Deere family moved into a large home several blocks away from the Plow Works on Main Street in Moline.
1863 - Helps organize the First National Bank of Moline with other local businessmen, including former partners Charles Atkinson and John Gould. Becomes president in 1866.
1868 - Deere & Company is incorporated.
1873 - Elected the second mayor of Moline, Illinois
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