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Cyrus Hall McCormick Jr. (May 16, 1859 – June 2, 1936) was an American businessman. He was president of the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company from 1884 to 1902. [ 1 ] His tenure was marked by bitter conflict with the union, culminating in the death of two striking workers on May 3, 1886, the event which precipitated the Haymarket affair .
Robert McCormick III was born October 5, 1863, and died January 6, 1865. Anita McCormick was born July 4, 1866, married Emmons Blaine on September 26, 1889, and died February 12, 1954. Emmons was a son of the U.S. Secretary of State James G. Blaine. [18] Alice McCormick was born March 15, 1870, and died less than a year later on January 25, 1871.
When Cyrus McCormick died in 1884, Spring was asked to serve as a pallbearer. [1] Cyrus Jr. took over his father's business, and Spring likely retired after this. He was still quite active in various financial concerns in Chicago; as of 1891, for example, he sat on the Board of Directors of the North Chicago Street Railroad Company.
Cyrus Hall McCormick Sr., founder of the McCormick business dynasty. Robert McCormick Jr. (1780–1846) was an American inventor who lived in rural Virginia. [1] His maternal grandparents were Scottish immigrants, George Sanderson and Catharine (née Ross) Sanderson, and paternal grandparents were Thomas (1702–1762) and Elizabeth (née Carruth) McCormick, Presbyterian immigrants born in ...
Miley Cyrus is sharing the story about how her parents came up with her birth name, Destiny Hope Cyrus. The "Flowers" singer, 31, opened up about the inspiration behind the name on a recent ...
Carter, who died at age 100 on Dec. 29, was first assigned a protective detail as a presidential candidate on Oct. 8, 1975. That means the agency's round-the-clock mission of guarding him ...
McCormick was born on February 8, 1819, in Rockbridge County, Virginia. He was the fourth of five sons born to Robert McCormick, Jr. (1780–1846) and Mary Ann "Polly" Hall (1780–1853) of the prominent McCormick family. His older brothers were Cyrus McCormick and William Sanderson McCormick. Another older brother, Robert Hall McCormick, died ...
Billy Ray Cyrus and new wife Firerose appeared on "The Kelly Clarkson Show" on Oct. 26 and explained how his dog Tex played a role in their romance and eventual marriage.