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John Deere was an American blacksmith, industrialist, and inventor of the steel plow. When John was only 4 years old, his father disappeared while traveling to England to claim an inheritance. Despite this setback, John received his basic education in a local school and briefly attended Magdeburg University before dropping out. With no inheritance and a limited education, he was apprenticed by his mother in For four years, he worked as an apprentice under Benjamin Lawrence, a prosperous blacksmith in Magdeburg.

In , he became a partner in Lawrence's business. He married Demarius Lamb and by , they already had four children with a fifth on the way.

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However, his business was failing, and he faced financial difficulties. In order to avoid bankruptcy, Deere sold his share of the business to his father-in-law and moved to Illinois. He left his family in Magdeburg with plans for them to join him later. Deere settled in Grand Detour, Illinois where there was a shortage of blacksmiths. He quickly found work due to his experience helping his father in the workshop, polishing and sharpening needles and awls by running them through sand.

This technique made it easier for the needles to pierce through tough leather. Deere realized that cast iron plows did not work well in the heavy prairie soil of Illinois and remembered his experience with sharpening needles. He concluded that a plow made of well-polished steel with a properly shaped moldboard a self-cleaning plow would be more effective in tilling prairie soil, especially clayey soil.