Harry Merritt, the general manager of the Allis-Chalmers Tractor Division, decided there was a large market for a row-crop tractor that could replace the horses being used on small farms. The popular ...

As a seven-year-old boy growing up on a farm near Renfrew, Ont., George Nesbitt would read his father's farming magazines admiring the pictures of the tractors advertised inside. One day, unbeknownst ...

Edward P. Allis was born in rural New York in 1824. Unlike many other Americans, he was able to attend both grammar and high school, which allowed him entrance into Geneva College (now known as Hobart ...