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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.
December, 1891, Racine, Wisconsin. 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.
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. In fact his father sold a crude version imported from England when Jerome was a boy in Oswego County, New York.
Jerome Increase Case was a young man of 23 in 1842 when he left Oswego County, New York. His destination was Rochester, Wisconsin Territory. Case had read that the country around Rochester was the wheat center of the mid-west, and he planned to begin his career as a thresherman there.
A Case row-crop model, circa 1940s. Case Model 830. Case Model 2090. 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.
Jerome I. Case died at age seventy-two. Published in the Harness Racing Museum's 1994 book, The Immortals. Born December 11, 1819, Jerome Increase Case was of "grand old New England stock" and was best known for the development of a combination machine that threshed and separated grain.
24 apr 2017 · In 1842, Jerome Increase “J.I.” Case founded the Racine Threshing Machine Works in Racine Wisconsin. Now, in its 175th year, the company he started to make threshing machines has grown into...
