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Leander James McCormick (February 8, 1819 – February 20, 1900) was an American inventor, manufacturer, philanthropist, and businessman and a member of the McCormick family of Chicago and Virginia. Along with his elder brothers Cyrus and William, he is regarded as one of the fathers of modern agriculture due to his part in the development of ...
James joined the Deering Harvester Company in 1880 as treasurer. In 1902, J.P. Morgan and Company purchased Deering Harvester and McCormick Reaper Company and merged them to form the International Harvester Corporation, the largest producer of agricultural machinery in the U.S. Deering became vice-president of the new corporation, responsible for the three Illinois manufacturing plants.
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 ...
James, Jim or Jimmy McCormick may refer to: James Hanna McCormick (1875–1955), Northern Ireland politician James Robinson McCormick (1824–1897), U.S. Representative from Missouri
Jack William Szostak FRS (born November 9, 1952) [2] is a Canadian American [3] biologist of Polish British descent, Nobel Prize laureate, university professor at the University of Chicago, former professor of genetics at Harvard Medical School, and Alexander Rich Distinguished Investigator at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston.
McCormick's son, Alister, 1917. In 1886, while touring Europe , he met Constance Plummer (1865–1938), the daughter of Edward Plummer, of Canterbury , England , whom he married on February 15, 1887. [ 6 ]
Taylor reunited with Cox, 53, on the January 16 episode of “Hey Dude… The 90s Called!” along with Barnes, 50, Sutera, 43, Hack, 39, and Henriette Mantel to look back on the movie, which they ...
His mother was Eleanor Brooks, daughter of Walter Brooks of Baltimore. His father was William Grigsby McCormick (1851–1941), whose father William Sanderson McCormick (1815–1865) was one of the founders of McCormick Harvester, which merged in 1902 with the Deering Harvester Company founded by William Deering and others to form International Harvester Corporation.