On: Farmers Didn't Invent Tractors. They Were Busy Farming.

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If this page is correct

http://www.geocities.com/motorcity/downs/9828/fergy_12.htm

it was probably somewhere near Waterloo

    > This was the first tractor built by Froelich who with
    > others formed the Waterloo GasolineTraction Engine
    > Company. This company manufactured the Waterloo Boy
    > tractors starting in 1914. The Waterloo Company was
    > purchased by John Deere in 1918 and became the John
    > DeereTractor Company.