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The McCormick family of Chicago and Virginia is an American family of Scottish and Scotch-Irish descent that attained prominence and fortune starting with the invention of the McCormick Reaper, a machine that revolutionized agriculture and established the modern grain trade by beginning the mechanization of the harvesting of grain.
The McCormick Family of Chicago, IL and Virginia rose to prominence in their agricultural, real estate, and investment ventures. Their rise to wealth and ties to Virginia were instrumental in the donation of the observatory to the University of Virginia.
From Cyrus McCormick (1809–1884) to his grandnephew Brooks McCormick (1917–), the McCormick family has been a force in the business, cultural, and philanthropic life and history of the Chicago metropolitan area for over 150 years.
He was the eldest of eight children born to inventor Robert McCormick Jr. (1780–1846) and Mary Ann "Polly" Hall (1780–1853). As Cyrus's father saw the potential of the design for a mechanical reaper, he applied for a patent to claim it as his own invention.
Early Notables of the McCormick family Notable amongst the family name at this time was Charles McCormick (1755?-1807), Irish historian and biographer, born about 1755, was son of Charles McCormick of Rathkeal, near Limerick , gentleman.
McCormick & Company, Incorporated is an American food company that manufactures, markets, and distributes spices, seasoning mixes, condiments, and other flavoring products to retail outlets, food manufacturers, and foodservice businesses.
McCORMICK’S FIRST CHICAGO FACTORY, 1848 – 1871. Between 1848 and 1871 the McCormick brothers regularly enlarged and improved their Chicago plant, which was designed with ready access to water and rail transportation.
As with many of Chicago’s biggest endeavors, the history of McCormick Place starts with a world’s fair and the McCormick family. The McCormick family had risen in Chicago thanks to the wealth generated by their industrialized farming machinery business. The ideas first formed in the mind of Col. Robert McCormick in the late 1920’s.
John McCormick was born in 1703 in Ireland. Andrew McCormick (1746). The Mccormicks were early settlers in, what is now, the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia. On May 21, 1740, John McCormick of Orange County, Virginia bought 395 acres from Jost Hite. This land was in a part of Orange County that eventually became Jefferson County, West Virginia.
The McCormicks were a prominent family in South Central Pennsylvania who greatly influenced history and commerce in that area of the country. This site is dedicated to making personal papers, pictures and other documents of that family available to historians, students and the general public for the first time.