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Harold was born in 1872 in Chicago Illinois. He was the son of inventor Cyrus Hall McCormick and philanthrophist Nancy Maria Fowler.
He was the president of the International Harvester Company. In his youth he was also a keen sportsman, competing in the US National Tennis Championships in the 1890s.
He married (1) Edith Rockefeller, daughter of Standard Oil co-founder John D Rockefeller. They had 5 children:
In 1921 Clarence Darrow worked with two other lawyers including George A. Cooke, former Chief Justice of the Illinois Supreme Court, while representing Harold in divorce proceedings with Edith. The couple divorced on December 28, 1921 in Chicago.[1]
He married (2) Ganna Walska, a Polish opera singer. They divorced in 1931, childless.
In May 1938 he married Adah Wilson, his nurse, in Pasadena, California.[2]
He passed away in 1941 of a cerebral hemorrhage, at his home in Beverly Hills, California and is buried at Graceland Cemetery, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois.
Find A Grave: Memorial #120216706
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