Cyrus McCormick Sr.
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Cyrus Hall McCormick Sr. (1809 - 1884)

Cyrus Hall McCormick Sr.
Born in , Rockbridge County, Virginia, United Statesmap
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Husband of — married 1858 [location unknown]
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Died at age 75 in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, United Statesmap
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Biography

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Cyrus McCormick Sr. is Notable.
Cyrus Hall McCormick, Sr. was born in 1809 in Rockbridge County, Virginia, the oldest of nine children and six sons of Robert and Mary Ann Polly McChesney Hall McCormick.
On 26 January 1858, when he was forty-nine, Cyrus married his secretary, Nancy "Nettie" Fowler (1835–1923), an orphan from New York who had graduated from the Troy Female Seminary and moved to Chicago. They had met two years earlier and shared views about business, religion and Democratic party politics. They had seven children.[1]
In 1884, when he was in his mid-seventies, Cyrus died of unknown causes in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois.
Cyrus Hall McCormick, Sr. was an American inventor and founder of the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company, which became part of International Harvester Company in 1902. From the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, he and many members of his family became prominent residents of Chicago.[2]
Although McCormick is credited as the inventor of the mechanical reaper, he based his work on that of many others, including Scottish and American men, more than two decades of work by his father, and the aid of Jo Anderson, a slave held by his family. Cyrus McCormick filed patents for the invention, and his achievements were chiefly in the development of a company, marketing and sales force to market his products.[3]
For a more in-depth biography on Cyrus, see the Wikipedia article on Cyrus McCormick.

Legacy

  • McCormick County, South Carolina is named in his honor.

Timeline

1870: Lived in New York, New York according the the Census: Head/Husband Cyrus H. McCormack, wife Nettie, and children Cyrus R., Mary V., Anita E., and Alice; and Margaret Carr, Ann Rooney, Ellen Cook, Elizabeth Lee, and Thomas Parsons. [4]

Citations

  1. Wikipedia
  2. Wikipedia Article on Cyrus McCormick
  3. Wikipedia Article on Cyrus McCormick
  4. United States Census, 1870; Index, FamilySearch

Acknowledgments

  • WikiTree profile McCormick-745 was created through the import of Smith Family Tree.ged on Sep 1, 2012 by Pamela Smith-Irowa.

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My aunt always said we were kin to him. She said his father was an uncle. Wrong it was his great grandfather. LOL
posted by Sharon McCormack
McCormick-3970 and McCormick-745 appear to represent the same person because: Same name, same parents, same birth and death info, same spouse. Please merge!
posted by [Living Prickett]