John Daniel Rust was born on Sept. 6, 1892, near Necessity, Texas. His father, Benjamin Daniel Rust, was a Civil War veteran, a farmer and a school teacher, while his mother, Susan Minerva Burnett, ...

SCOTT — The old onerow, pull-type cotton picker at the Plantation Agriculture Museum in Scott doesn't look like much, but it helped to launch a revolution. The inventor, John Daniel Rust, who died 55 ...

There’s a lot going on when it comes to maintaining the heads on a cotton picker. The picking unit has dozens of spinning parts working at high speeds, and they all depend on tight tolerances to keep ...