The Virginia patriarch of this family founded the precursor to International Harvester, which established a factory in Chicago to mass produce a horse-drawn device for cutting crops.
The wife of a member of this family funded the research of Gregory Pincus to develop the first birth control pill. Theodore Francis Green's actions in Rhode Island so angered another member of this family that he had a star cut out from the flag of the Tribune Tower, and that man used his position as editor of the Chicago Tribune to support the isolationist movement. This family lost a patent infringement lawsuit to John Henry Manny, who employed lawyers Edwin M. Stanton and Abraham Lincoln. The Virginia patriarch of this family founded the precursor to International Harvester, which established a factory in Chicago to mass produce a horse-drawn device for cutting crops. For 10 points, name this prominent American family whose member Cyrus invented the mechanical reaper.
The wife of a member of this family funded the research of Gregory Pincus to develop the first birth control pill.
McCormick family [or Katharine Dexter McCormick; or Stanley McCormick; or Colonel McCormick; or Robert Rutherford McCormick; or Cyrus McCormick]