Burden

Henry, an American inventor, born in Dumblane, Scotland, April 20, 1791; was brought up on a farm, and, at an early age, showed his inventive genius by making a variety of labor-saving machinery, including a threshing machine. He came to the United States in 1819; engaged in the manufacture of agricultural implements; invented an improved plow; the first cultivator made in this country; machines for making horse shoes and hook headed spikes used on railroads: a self-acting machine for rolling iron into bars; and a new machine for making horse shoes, which received a rod of iron and turned out completed shoes at the rate of 60 a minute. He died in Troy, N. Y., Jan. 19, 1871.