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...young Cyrus Hall Mc-Cormick of Virginia hitched four horses to "a cross between an Astley chariot, a wheelbarrow and a flying machine," and drove with noisy lurchings into neighbor's hilly oat field. Dogs barked, slaves giggled, small boys guyed as the clumsy juggernaut slewed and jolted through a ragged swath. The owner of the oats called a halt. It took the young inventor months to convert anyone but his family to the reaper...
...Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis, publisher...
...class of 1912) is the youngest member of the board of trustees, was selected from a field of six candidates, "after the most spirited voting in the history of the University." Some of the men whom Mr. Mathey will help direct the destiny of Princeton are Charles Scribner (books), Cyrus McCormick (reapers), Henry B. Thompson (cotton), Gordon Rentschler (National City Bank). Though he is a partner of Dillon, Read & Co., most people know Dean Mathey as a tennis player who, in 1916, was ranked No. 10 by the U. S. Lawn Tennis Association. Last winter, he and Watson M. Washburn...
...Pearson Wells of Detroit is no daughter but a step-daughter of Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis. Se was before her marriage Miss Helen C. Pillsbury, daughter of Mrs. Kate S. Pillsbury, of Milwaukee (both second cousin and second wife of Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis). Mrs. Edward W. Bok is the only daughter, only child of Publisher Curtis.-ED. Artist Praised...
Mary Louise Curtis Bok, daughter and only child of Publisher Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis (Saturday Evening Post, Ladies' Home Journal, New York Evening Post, etc.) and wife of Edward W. Bok (onetime editor Ladies' Home Journal), last week permitted her name to come out of quiet domestic retirement in two announcements. To the Curtis Institute of Music which Mrs. Bok founded in Philadelphia three years ago with $500,000, she had given seven millions, bringing its endowment to $12,500,000. As President of the Institute, she had promoted the head of the piano department to the head...