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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. (1780–1846) and Mary Ann "Polly" Hall (1780–1853). As Cyrus's father saw the potential of the design for ...
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 ...
McCormick married Harriet Bradley Hammond on March 5, 1889. They had three children – Cyrus Hall McCormick III was born September 22, 1890; Elizabeth McCormick was born July 12, 1892; and Gordon McCormick was born June 21, 1894. [4] He was president of the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company from 1884 to 1902. In 1885, striking workers ...
Cyrus Hall McCormick, Sr. Feb 15, 1809: May 13, 1884: Founder of the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company: Lived and died in Chicago Cyrus Hall McCormick II: May 16, 1859: 1936: President of the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company (1884–1902) Born in Chicago Harold Fowler McCormick: May 2, 1872: Oct 16, 1941: Chairman of the board of ...
John Henry Manny (1825–1856) was the inventor of the Manny Reaper, one of various makes of reaper used to harvest grain in the 19th century. Cyrus McCormick III, in his Century of the Reaper, called Manny "the most brilliant and successful of all Cyrus McCormick's competitors," [1] a field of many brilliant people.
L. Hamilton McCormick (1859–1934), US inventor and businessman, nephew of Cyrus McCormick Leander J. McCormick (1819–1900), US businessman and philanthropist Richard D. McCormick (born 1940), US businessman
Cyrus McCormick: 1809 Mechanical reaper [15] 1976 Enrico Fermi: 1901 Nuclear fission [18] 1976 Rudolf Diesel: 1858 Internal-combustion engine [19] 1976 Charles Hard Townes * 1915 Laser [20] 1977 Charles Steinmetz: 1865 Alternating current [21] 1977 Edwin H. Land: 1909 Polaroid [22] 1977 George Eastman: 1854 Photography [23] 1977 Lee De Forest ...
Joseph Medill McCormick was born in Chicago on May 16, 1877. His father was Robert Sanderson McCormick (1849–1919), a future diplomat and nephew of industrialist Cyrus McCormick. McCormick was an early pupil at Ludgrove School when his father was based in Europe. [1] He later attended the Groton School, a preparatory school at Groton ...