ohn Deere (February 7, 1804 ? May 17, 1886) was an American blacksmith and manufacturer who founded Deere & Company? the largest agricultural and construction equipment manufacturers in the world.A monument in Middlebury, Vermont marking the shop in the town where John Deere learned the blacksmith trade.A monument in Middlebury, Vermont marking the shop in the town where John Deere learned the blacksmith trade.Deere was born in Rutland, Vermont on February 7, 1804, the son of William Rinold Deere, a tailor. William Deere disappeared on the way to England in 1808 when a young John Deere was only four, where he was seeking a possible inheritance. John Deere received a basic education from the local common school and briefly attended Middlebury College before dropping out. With no inheritance and a meager education, he was apprenticed in 1821, at age 17, by his mother. He served four years as apprentice to Captain Benjamin Lawrence, a prosperous Middlebury blacksmith, and entered the trade for himself in 1825.[1][2]He married Demarius Lamb, and by 1836 the couple had four children, with a fifth child on the way. The business was not doing very well, and Deere was having trouble with his creditors. Facing bankruptcy, Deere sold the shop to his father-in-law and departed for Illinois. He left his wife and family, who were to join him later.

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