27 Facts About Jerome Case

Jerome Increase Case was an early American manufacturer of threshing machines.

Jerome Case founded the J I Case Company which has gone through many mergers and name changes to today's Case Corporation.

Jerome Case served three terms as mayor of Racine, Wisconsin, and represented Racine County in the Wisconsin State Senate in 1865 and 1866.

Jerome Increase Case was born December 11,1819, in Williamstown in Oswego County, New York.

Jerome Case's father was Caleb Case and mother Deborah Jackson.

Jerome Case's father sold some primitive "ground hog" machines that helped speed up the separation of grain after it was harvested.

In 1840, Jerome started a small business threshing his neighbors' crops with the horse-powered devices.

Jerome Case first manufactured the machines in a small shop in Racine, and then built a three-story brick factory in 1847 on the Root River.

Jerome Case often financed the machines with high interest rates.

Massena B Erskine, Robert H Baker, and Stephen Bull became partners when J I Case Company was officially organized in 1863.

Jerome Case was elected to the Wisconsin State Senate in 1865 and served one two-year term.

Jerome Case adopted the mascot of the regiment, an eagle named Old Abe, as company symbol.

Jerome Case was an early investor in the Northwestern Life Insurance Company in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Jerome Case was a founder of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters, and president of the Racine County Agricultural Society.

Jerome Case became a good friend of William Robbins, the founder of Hinsdale, and hired his son, John S Robbins, as manager for his plow manufacturing plant in Racine.

In 1885, Jerome Case subdivided his large property in Hinsdale and moved back to Wisconsin.

The horse outlived Jerome Case and died in 1909 at the age of 31.

Jerome Case owned some Great Lakes ships, a winter home in California, a ranch in Texas, and a stock farm in Kentucky.

Jerome Case died on December 22,1891, in Racine, less than a year before the comeback of his favorite horse.

Jerome Case's widow, born August 6,1826, died December 9,1909.

Henrietta Jerome Case was born March 3,1858, and married Percival Strong Fuller.

Jessie Fremont Jerome Case was born April 17,1861, and married Mitchell Wallis.

Amanda Jerome Case was born October 1,1862, and married Jonathan James Crooks of San Francisco.

Jackson Irving Jerome Case was born October 23,1865, married Henrietta May Roy on May 25,1886, and had four sons.

Jerome Case was elected mayor of Racine when he was only 26, but died January 8,1903, before he was 38.

Jerome Case sponsored a team of racing cars, led by driver Lewis Strang until he died in 1911.

In 2008, Jerome Case was inducted into the Association of Equipment Manufacturers Hall of fame.