Editing John Deere (inventor) (section)

==Early life==
John Deere was born on February 7, 1804, in Rutland, Vermont,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/on-this-day/february-7/|title = On This Day: February 7|work=The New York Times}}</ref> the third son of William Rinold Deere,<ref>[https://www.geni.com/people/William-Deere/6000000013049975866 “William Deere”] Geni.</ref> a merchant tailor, and Sarah Yeats.<ref>[https://www.geni.com/people/Sarah-Deere/6000000013050002050 “Sarah Deere (Yeats)”] Geni.</ref> After a brief educational period at [[Middlebury College]], at age 17 in 1821, he began an apprenticeship with Captain Benjamin Lawrence, a successful Middlebury blacksmith, and entered the trade for himself in 1826.<ref name=deerebio>"[http://www.deere.com/en_US/compinfo/history/johndeere.html John Deere: A Biography]"; {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070410031727/http://www.deere.com/en_US/compinfo/history/johndeere.html |date=April 10, 2007 }}, Deere & Company, official website. Retrieved May 22, 2007.</ref><ref name=leffingwell>Leffingwell, Randy. "[https://books.google.com/books?id=A6RKJf2lwIoC&dq=John+Deere+Grand+Detour&pg=PA10 John Deere: A History of the Tractor]," ([[Google Books]]), Motor Books/MBI Publishing Company, 2004, p. 10, ({{ISBN|0760318611}}). Retrieved May 21, 2007.</ref> He married Demarius Lamb in 1827 and fathered nine children.<ref name="leffingwell"/><ref>[https://archive.today/20110730073909/http://www.deere.com/en_US/compinfo/student/DemariusDeerebio3.html About John Deere]. Deere.com. Retrieved on July 21, 2013.</ref>

Their daughter Alice Maria married [[Merton Yale Cady]], grandson of [[Linus Yale Sr.]] of the [[Yale Lock Company]], and was the proprietor of Alderney Hill Farm, formerly Mr. John Deere's blooded-stock farm.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=cBhEAQAAMAAJ&dq=%22Alderney+Hill+Farm%22&pg=PA314 Portrait and Biographical Album of Rock Island County, Illinois], Citizens Historical Association, Biographical Publishing Co., Chicago, 1885, p. 313-314</ref> They were the grandparents of Jane Mabel Skinner, wife of [[Warren Crandall Giles]], president of the [[National League (baseball)|National League]] and [[Cincinnati Reds]], and parents of [[William Yale Giles]], co-proprietor of the [[Philadelphia Phillies]].<ref>[https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/warren-giles/ Warren Giles], Society for American Baseball Research, Mark Armour, May 24, 2012</ref>

Deere worked in [[Burlington, Vermont|Burlington]] before opening his own shops, first in [[Vergennes, Vermont|Vergennes]], and then in [[Leicester, Vermont|Leicester]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://vermontgenealogy.wordpress.com/2007/02/20/famous-vermont-residents-john-deere/ |title=Famous Vermont Residents – John Deere |date=February 20, 2007 |website=Vermont History and Genealogy}}</ref>  In 1836, Deere left Vermont due to hard times and followed Leonard Andrus, a business associate, to Illinois.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Pripps |first=Robert |title=John Deere Photographic History |publisher=MBI Publishing Company LLC |year=1995 |isbn=978-1-61060-647-9 |location=Osceola, WI |pages=12 |language=en}}</ref>