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Robert Rutherford "Colonel" McCormick (July 30, 1880 – April 1, 1955) was an American publisher, lawyer, and businessman.. A member of the McCormick family of Chicago, McCormick became a lawyer, Republican Chicago alderman, distinguished U.S. Army officer in World War I, and eventually owner and publisher of the Chicago Tribune newspaper.
Robert McCormick Jr. (June 8, 1780 – July 4, 1846) was an American inventor who invented numerous devices including a version of the reaper. His eldest son Cyrus McCormick patented this in 1834 and it became the foundation of the International Harvester Company .
Robert McCormick may refer to: Robert R. McCormick (1880–1955), American publisher of the Chicago Tribune; Robert McCormick (explorer) (1800–1890), naturalist with the British Royal Navy; Robert McCormick (Virginia inventor) (1780–1846), American inventor, and progenitor of the McCormick family of Chicago; Robert McCormick, the ex-CEO of ...
McCormick Place is named for him as is the McCormick School of Engineering at Northwestern University. [4] His estate, Cantigny in Wheaton, Illinois, is now a museum. (Joseph Medill Patterson (1879–1946), Illinois State Representative in 1903, was first cousin of J. Medill McCormick and Robert Rutherford McCormick through the Medill family.)
McCormick was born in Great Yarmouth, England.His father, also Robert McCormick, was a ship's surgeon from Ballyreagh, County Tyrone.From 1821 McCormick studied medicine in London under Sir Astley Cooper at St Thomas' Hospital and Guy's Hospital, gaining his diploma in 1822, then in 1823 he joined the Royal Navy as an assistant surgeon.
His father was William Sanderson McCormick (1815–1865) and his mother was Mary Ann (née Grigsby) McCormick (1828–1878), whose family owned the Hickory Hill plantation. When Robert was an infant, his family moved to Chicago to join the McCormick family agricultural machinery business, which in 1902 merged into International Harvester.
Robert McCormick Adams Jr. (July 23, 1926 – January 27, 2018) [1] was an American anthropologist and secretary of the Smithsonian Institution (1984–94). [2] He worked in both the Near East and Mesoamerica .
Robert C. McCormack in 1988. Robert Cornelius McCormack (born November 7, 1939) [1] was United States Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Production Support from 1987 to 1988; Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Industrial and International Programs from 1988 to 1990; and Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Financial Management and Comptroller) from 1990 to 1993.