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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 ...
Cyrus Hall McCormick portrait, held by the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. Cyrus Hall McCormick was born on February 15, 1809, in Raphine, Virginia. He was the eldest of eight children born to inventor Robert McCormick Jr. and Mary Ann "Polly" Hall. As Cyrus's father saw the potential of the design for a mechanical reaper, he ...
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 .
Born in Chicago, Illinois, [5] on May 5, 1861, [5] [6] Mary Virginia McCormick was the eldest daughter [7] of Nancy Maria "Nettie" Fowler McCormick and Cyrus Hall McCormick, [8] the American inventor of the mechanical reaper [9] [10] and industrialist [11] [12] who founded the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company in 1847.
In 1857, while visiting friends in Chicago, Nettie met Cyrus Hall McCormick (1809–1884), the eldest son of inventor Robert McCormick and Mary Ann "Polly" McCormick (née Hall). Cyrus and Nettie were married in 1858. Together, they were the parents of seven children: Cyrus Hall McCormick Jr. (1859–1936), who married Harriet Bradley Hammond ...
She filed a petition in the Los Angeles Superior Court to have her name legally changed to Miley Ray Cyrus in March 2008 when she was 15, according to court documents obtained by TODAY.com. Her ...
At 36 years old, Brandi is the oldest of the Cyrus siblings, born in 1987 to Tish and her former husband, Baxter Neal Helson, making her Miley’s half-sister, per PEOPLE. (Billy Ray adopted ...
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