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George Esterly was born and brought up on his father’s farm in Plattekill, Ulster County, New York. He sprang from English and German ancestry and was the son of Peter and Rachel (Griffith) Esterly.
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George Esterly was born and brought up on his father’s farm in Plattekill, Ulster County, New York. He sprang from English and German ancestry and was the son of Peter and Rachel (Griffith) Esterly.
After receiving a common-school education in Plattekill, he continued with his father both at his birthplace and at Rochester, New York, until 1832.
His first harvest of 200 acres of wheat was without any profit to himself because of the fact that farm help was scarce and all operations had to be executed by hand.
This was his stimulant for invention, and after a year of experimentation, on October 2, 1844, he patented a horse-pushed harvester or "header, ” which proved to be the first successful American harvesting machine.
It had a wide reel revolving on a horizontal axis, mounted on a box on wheels, which swept the heads of grain against a knife blade, also placed horizontally.
The heads fell into the box back of the knife and just in front of the horses, which were hitched to the rear.
At the second annual fair of the Chicago Mechanics Institute, held in 1848, Esterly exhibited this machine, with C. H. McCormick [g. t'. ]
Shortly thereafter he contracted with several manufacturers to make his machine and was thus definitely launched in the agricultural-machinery business.
He continued to ply his inventive talents, patenting a mowing machine, a plow, a hand-rake reaper, and the first sulky cultivator between 1854 and 1856; a seeder in 1865 ; and a self-rake reaper in 1870.
In 1858 he erected his own manufacturing plant at Whitewater, Wisconsin, taking in his son as partner in 1872, and incorporating the business in 1884.
It continued to thrive, concentrating its effort on twine binders and mowers and building up a large export trade, until in 1892 the plant was moved to Minneapolis, Minnesota, and the enterprise was ruined in the great panic of that time.
Outside of his business Esterly was particularly interested in the national currency question.
His death occurred at Hot Springs, South Dakota.
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He was married three times: first, on March 4, 1832, to Jane Lewis, who was the mother of his seven children; second, after her death, to Mrs. Amelia Shaff Hall in March 1855; and third, in May 1884, to Caroline Esterly, who with his son and four daughters survived him.