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GHOST SHIP (continued): • Kicking open the ice-coated door to go beDEERE. JOHN DEERE. low, they were greeted by a(continued): musty odor. The •men It was while living in Illinois that John found a corpse in every bunk. Each nowas ticed the problemsand thatperfectly farmers preserved faced when bundled in blankets by attempting to till soil. Because the area the cold. In the captain’s cabin, they foundhad the formerlybody beenslumped woodland, the soil captain’s forward on a was desk,rich pen which clumpedlay and to inwith hand.hummus, The body of a woman in clung the bunk. thethe plows farmers were accus-of Inthe theblades cornerofof cabin was the corpse using. While broken cira tomed sailor, towith a flint in repairing one handa and a piece cular saw, Deere stumbled upon an idea. He of steel in the other. A mound of wood shavemployed his smith skills to fashion steel ings was in front of him. Nearby, underthe a heavy blade into the shape of a plow. He affixed coat, was the body of a small boy. They found wooden spokes, then hitched notwo provisions on board. Taking thethe logdevice book, to a horse. It plowed the heavy Illinois soil they returned to their own ship. Unfortunatelike a charm. In fact, a farmer who happened ly, the log book was dropped and many pages to be observing the test run immediately put lost into the ocean. The Octavious drifted off, in an order for his own John Deere plow. never to be seen again. The logbook revealed •that In short order, Deere gaveEngland up his blacksmith the doomed ship left bound for shop and focused on making plows. China on September 10, 1761. Good windsThe and company grew steadily and added many emfair weather prevailed, and nothing was amiss. ployees. In thesaid, late 1840s, John now relocated The final page “We have beenthe enentire operation to Moline, Illinois. Ashamed closed in the ice 17 days, and our approximate of his own lack of education, John sent his position is Longitude 160 W, Latitude 75 N. children to the state’s finest schools. One of The fire went out yesterday, and our master his proudest days occurred when son Charles has been the trying to rekindle againfrom but without earned equivalent of anitMBA Bell’s success. He hasCollege handedinthe steel and flint to the Commercial Chicago. mate. The master’s son died this morning and •hisWith son Charles managing thethe company, wifehissays she no longer feels terrible John found time to pursue philanthropic incold. The rest of us seem to have no relief from terests. He co-founded both the First Nationthe agony.” The location given in the logbook al Bank and the First Congregational Church. in the final entry was north of Point Barrow, He was elected the mayor of Moline in 1873, Alaska. The captain of the Octavius had decidwhere one of his first actions – the replaceedment to look for the yet undiscovered Northwest of the city’s open drains with a sewer Passage through the Arctic instead of reducsailing pipe system – saved countless lives by home all the way around South America. The ing the spread of disease. ship, locked in the ice, sailed on even after the •demise The original John Deere logo, registered in of the crew— and became the first ship 1876, depicted a deer that was native to Afriever to negotiate the elusive Northwest Pasca. Thirty-six years later, in 1912, it was resage. Her crew for the journey was a captain placed with the image of a North American and crew who had been dead for 13 years. Towhite-tailed deer. In the decades that folday the logbook of the Octavius is in the arlowed, the now-familiar “outline” logo took chives of the thesymbol Registrar of Shipping in brand. London. over as of the John Deere Information in the Tidbits® Paper is gathered from sources considered to be reliable, but the accuracy of all information cannot be guaranteed.

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