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Exactly what made the clans so extravagantly unfriendly is open to conjecture. Maybe Randolph McCoy was sore at a Hatfield for stealing a razorback hog. Maybe he was angry at his daughter Rose Anne, pregnant by Johnse Hatfield after a frolic in 1880, for moving, unmarried, into the Hatfield compound. Or maybe the cause was the packs of Hatfields who crossed the Tug Fork and went swaggering around the Kentucky election grounds. Whatever the reason, the furies were unambiguously loosed on a whisky-sodden day 100 years ago next August. One of McCoy's sons taunted an unarmed Ellison...
...feudists were prolific in all things. Devil Anse, like his McCoy counterpart, fathered 13 children; his brother Valentine is reputed to have...
...says of his great uncle Henry D., a physician and politician: "He would actually, physically, throw you out of that hospital if you'd ask him about that feud." Peacemaking was an active mission among both families. "My parents," Belle says, "made us be friendly with the McCoys. If you met one of those McCoy men that was in the fighting, you'd be nice and kind...
Banc One, for example, was one of the first financial institutions to see the potential in bank credit cards. In 1966 McCoy persuaded giant Bank of America to extend its California-based BankAmericard to nationwide use and to let Banc One handle the mountain of paperwork. At first Bank of America dismissed the notion that an unknown outfit from Ohio's corn belt could act as a clearing house for a national credit card system. But McCoy persisted and eventually got the job. BankAmericard evolved into Visa, and Banc One today is the third largest credit card processor...
...McCoy's biggest success to date has been providing banking services for Merrill Lynch's Cash Management Account, which allows customers to write checks or use a Visa card against a money market account. Begun in 1977, the CMA has escalated into a $25 billion business with nearly 400,000 accounts. Other brokerage houses, including Dean Witter Reynolds, A.G. Edwards and Charles Schwab, are now preparing to offer clones of the CMA, and they have asked Banc One to act as their banker...