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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.
Jerome Increase Case was an agricultural implement manufacturer and banker. In 1842, he moved to Wisconsin and settled in Rochester. He opened a threshing machine repair shop there and worked as a thresherman.
The Case Corporation was a manufacturer of agricultural machinery and construction equipment. Founded, in 1842, by Jerome Increase Case as the J. I. Case Threshing Machine Company, it operated under that name for most of a century. For another 66 years it was the J. I. Case Company, and was often called simply Case.
Jerome Increase Case (1819-1891) Before machines were developed to do the work, a man could thresh six or seven bushels in a day’s work, just as farmers had for centuries. Jerome Case did not invent the first threshing machine.
Case, Jerome Increase 1819 - 1891. agricultural implement manufacturer, banker, b. Williamstown, N.Y. In 1842 he moved to Wisconsin, settling at Rochester, where he opened a threshing machine repair shop and worked as a thresherman.
Learn about the founder of J.I. Case Machinery Company, a pioneer in construction and agricultural equipment. Discover his innovations, achievements and contributions to the industry and society.