Youtube biography john deere tractors

We tend to think of John Deere as tractors and green hats and forget that John Deere was an actual person. A person who never built, or even saw, a real tractor in his life.

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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. 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