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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. (1780–1846) and Mary Ann "Polly" Hall (1780–1853). As Cyrus's father saw the potential of the design for ...
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 murder 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.
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.
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 ...
The McCormick family is a prominent business family in the U.S. states of Illinois and Virginia. Pages in category "McCormick family" The following 36 pages are in this category, out of 36 total.
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