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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.
Anita Eugenie McCormick Blaine (1866-1954) was an American philanthropist and political activist. An heir to the McCormick Reaping Machine Works fortune built by her father, Cyrus McCormick (1809–1884), Blaine funded the launch of Chicago's Francis W. Parker Elementary School, the New World Foundation, the Progressive Party (1948), and the radical New York newspaper, the National Guardian.
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William Sanderson McCormick (1815–1865), who joined Cyrus in Chicago and married Mary Ann Grigsby in 1848. [2] Mary Caroline McCormick (1817–1888), who married Rev. James Shields IV in 1847. [2] Leander James McCormick (1819–1900), who also joined Cyrus in Chicago and married Henrietta Maria Hamilton in 1845. [2] [9] John Prestly ...