Edith (Rockefeller) McCormick
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Edith (Rockefeller) McCormick (1872 - 1932)

Edith McCormick formerly Rockefeller
Born in Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio, United Statesmap
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Wife of — married 26 Nov 1895 (to 1921) in Chicago, ILmap
Died at age 59 in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United Statesmap
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Biography

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Edith (Rockefeller) McCormick is Notable.

Wikidata: Item Q5338659, en:Wikipedia help.gif - heiress and philanthropist

Edith was born in 1872 in Cleveland, Ohio. She was the daughter of Standard Oil co-founder John D. Rockefeller and Laura Spelman.

She married Harold Fowler McCormick Sr in 1895. They had 5 children.

  • John Rockefeller McCormick (1897–1901), who died from scarlet fever.
  • Editha McCormick (1903–1904), who also died young.
  • Harold Fowler McCormick Jr. (1898–1973), who married Anne Urquhart Brown "Fifi" (née Potter) Stillman (1879–1969), who had previously been married to James A. Stillman, and was the daughter of James Brown Potter and Mary Cora Urquhart.
  • Muriel McCormick (1903–1959), who married Elisha Dyer Hubbard (1878-1936), a nephew of Elisha Dyer Jr. and grandson of Elisha Dyer (both Rhode Island governors), in 1931.
  • Mathilde McCormick (1905–1947), who married Wilheim Max Oser (1877–1942), a Swiss riding instructor, in April 1923.

After losing two children to scarlet fever, Edith and her husband established the John McCormick Institution of Infectious Diseases in Chicago, a source of funding for the researchers who later isolated the bacterium responsible for the disease.

In 1913, she travelled to Zurich to be treated for depression by Carl Gustav Jung, and contributed generously to the Zürich Psychological Society. After extended analysis and intense study, Edith became a Jungian analyst, with a full-time practice of more than fifty patients.

She and her husband divorced in 1921, and he went on to remarry Polish opera singer Ganna Walska. She continued to use the McCormick name. She announced her engagement to Austrian architect Edward Krenn, but it was later called off.

She passed away from cancer in 1932 in Chicago and was buried at Graceland Cemetery, Chicago.

Find A Grave: Memorial #6421

Sources

  • Michael Gabbard, firsthand knowledge. Click the Changes tab for the details of edits by Michael and others.







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