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...parent company, Cyrus Hall McCormick is Chairman of the Board of Directors, Harold Fowler McCormick, Chairman of the Executive Committee, and Alexander Legge, President...
Cyrus Hall McCormick used to go with his father, Robert, into a log hut on their Virginia farm and the two would work secretly for hours. The father was a Scotch-Irishman, quick with his hands. He had invented a hemp-brake, a cloyer-sheller, a bellows and a threshing machine that won him fame before he left the old country. He often stood pensively over a rusted wreck beside his Virginia barn, the wreck of a baffled dream. Cyrus too studied it. It was a reaper that would not reap. One day in 1831 (after his father...
...McCormick entered a swampy town at the foot of Lake Michigan. It had no railroad, no canal; only a river, flowing the wrong way. But it was busy and McCormick saw that it was good. After two minutes' talk, Chicago's first mayor, William B. Ogden, bought a half partnership and McCormick proceeded to build his factory. They sold $50,000 worth of reapers for the next harvest...
Subsequently the first two such dealers were recommended for the Board and their own acceptance was this week announced by E. G. Wilmer, Chairman. They were C. M. Bishop, General Manager of Bishop, McCormick & Bishop of Brooklyn, and F. S. Albertson, President of the Albertson Motor Co. of Los Angeles. Both are "original" Dodge dealers, hard workers, good salesmen, thoughtful businessmen...
Eleanor Gyzicka, sister of Joseph Medill (Chicago Tribune) Patterson and niece of the late Robert S. McCormick (sometime U. S. ambassador to Russia and Austria) met Count Joseph Gyzicki (Austrian-Pole) in St. Petersburg and Vienna diplomatic life, marrying him in 1904.** She has long adorned and stimulated the chic milieu of which she writes. Photographs released to the public prints reveal her as an attractive, dark beauty well on the mentionable side of 35, posing in silks beside sophisticated bookshelves, cigaret in hand, large black eyes bent upon the beholder from beneath a high, thoughtful brow...