N.B. Alice May Unknown is not shown as Cyrus's wife in Leander James McCormick, comp, Family Record and Biography (Chicago: 1896) or in Cyrus's Wikipedia entry. If you have information in re their marriage and a source, please enter that information here, and notify me and/or the profile manager. (Patricia Prickett Hickin, 16 November 2018)
Cyrus was born on 16 May 1859 in Washington, D.C., the oldest of seven children and four sons of industrialist Cyrus McCormick and Nancy Fowler. A businessman, Cyrus was president of the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company from 1884 to 1902. He was later president of the merged International Harvester Company starting in 1902. He died in 1936.[1]
Timeline
~1859: Cyrus was born on May 16 in Washington, D.C. to Cyrus H. McCormick and Nettie Fowler.[2]
~1870: Lived in New York, New York according 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. [3]
~ Cyrus married Harriet Bradley Hammond
~1890: son Cyrus Hall, III born.
~1892: daughter Elizabeth born.
~1894: son Gordon born.
~1910: Lived in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, according to the Census: Head/Husband Cyrus H. McCormick , wife Harriett H., sons Cyrus H. and Gordon; and Susan C. Pearson, Henry Jones, Nels Olsen, Mary Conway, Eleanor Scollard, Celia Larson, Lisa Olsen, and Beda Lagg. [4]
~1920: Lived in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois according to the Census: Head/Husband Cyrus H. McCormick , wife Harriett; and John and Margaret McDinald of Scotland. [5]
~1936: Cyrus Hall McCormick died on June 2 in Lake Forest, Lake County, Illinois, at the age of 77, widowing Alice May McCormick. He was buried in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois.[7]
Birth: 16 May 1859 Washington, District of Columbia, District Of Columbia, USA; Death: 2 Jun 1936 (aged 77) Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, USA; Burial: Graceland Cemetery, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, USA; Plot: Ridgeland Section, lot 14. Memorial #: 77442362.
Bio: President of International Harvester. He was born in the nation's capital while his father was awaiting patent approval for an invention. After his early education in Chicago was concluded he attended Princeton University where he was a classmate of future President Woodrow Wilson. He graduated from Princeton in 1879 and immediately began work in the family business. McCormick Sr. died in 1884, and Cyrus Jr., as the oldest son, became company president. Throughout the 1880's and 1890's the company was noted as the leading agricultural equipment manufacturer. The company, due to McCormick, Jr..'s business expertise expanded it's sales into Europe and as far away as Russia and New Zealand. By the mid 1890's Mccormick Harvesting was the leading agricultural company in America in production and sales. In 1902 Deering Harvester Company and McCormick Harvesting company merged and became known as International Harvester. McCormick would lead the company along with his brother Harold McCormick for the next forty years. While his father and grandfather had built the company into a large corporation he built the company into a huge firm with worldwide sales. In 1886 McCormick decided to cut employee pay despite record company profits. Because of this the workers' went on strike, resulting in McCormick hiring replacement workers to take their place. The strikers attacked the replacement workers which caused McCormick to hire guards to protect the replacement workers. After numerous additional demonstrations he agreed to restore the strikers pay, but McCormick later recanted and decided to bring in machinery that would replace some of the workers. When the remaining worker then demanded higher wages he allegedly bribed the mayor and the police and closed the plant. He hired strike breakers to work the hours the strikers would have been working. This caused many more protests and demonstrations which ultimately led to the tragedy known as the "Haymarket Square Massacre," which killed at least eight policemen and an unknown number of civilians.
Family Members: Parents: Cyrus Hall McCormick (1809-1884), Nancy Maria Fowler McCormick (1835-1923); Spouses: Harriet Hammond McCormick (1862-1921), Alice M Holt McCormick Brown (1881-1950); Siblings: Mary Virginia McCormick (1861-1941), Robert Hall McCormick (1863-1865), Anita Eugenie McCormick Blaine (1866-1954), Alice McCormick (1870-1871), Harold Fowler McCormick (1872-1941), Stanley Robert McCormick (1874-1947); Children: Cyrus Hall McCormick (1890-1970), Elizabeth McCormick (1892-1905).[9]
WikiTree profile McCORMICK-950 was created through the import of McChesney Extended Decision Tr.ged on Jan 11, 2013 by Grace McChesney.
Sources
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