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