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Robert Rutherford "Colonel" McCormick (July 30, 1880 – April 1, 1955) was an American publisher, lawyer, and businessman.. A member of the McCormick family of Chicago, McCormick became a lawyer, Republican Chicago alderman, distinguished U.S. Army officer in World War I, and eventually owner and publisher of the Chicago Tribune newspaper.
McCormick Place is named for him as is the McCormick School of Engineering at Northwestern University. [4] His estate, Cantigny in Wheaton, Illinois, is now a museum. (Joseph Medill Patterson (1879–1946), Illinois State Representative in 1903, was first cousin of J. Medill McCormick and Robert Rutherford McCormick through the Medill family.)
McCormick's brother William Sanderson McCormick (1815–1865) moved to Chicago in 1849, ... Robert McCormick III was born October 5, 1863, and died January 6, 1865.
McCormick was born on February 8, 1819, in Rockbridge County, Virginia. He was the fourth of five sons born to Robert McCormick, Jr. (1780–1846) and Mary Ann "Polly" Hall (1780–1853) of the prominent McCormick family. His older brothers were Cyrus McCormick and William Sanderson McCormick. Another older brother, Robert Hall McCormick, died ...
William Sanderson McCormick was born November 2, 1815, on the family estate known as Walnut Grove, in Virginia. [1] His father was Robert McCormick (1780–1846) and mother Mary Ann (Hall) McCormick. He was educated in public schools and took an interest in business.
Robert McCormick (explorer) (1800–1890), naturalist with the British Royal Navy; Robert McCormick (Virginia inventor) (1780–1846), American inventor, and progenitor of the McCormick family of Chicago; Robert McCormick, the ex-CEO of SAVVIS, Inc. Mack McCormick (Robert McCormick, 1930–2015), American musicologist and folklorist
McCormick's brother Robert Sanderson McCormick (1849–1919) married the daughter of the founder of the Chicago Tribune. [3] Their son Chauncey Brooks McCormick with their nephew Robert R. McCormick purchased the Hickory Hill estate of Reuben Grigsby in 1929.
Robert McCormick Jr. (June 8, 1780 – July 4, 1846) was an American inventor who invented numerous devices including a version of the reaper. His eldest son Cyrus McCormick patented this in 1834 and it became the foundation of the International Harvester Company .