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McCormick, Cyrus Hall, 1859-1936. Business papers--real estate and trusts, 1897-1936.

Title: Business papers--real estate and trusts, 1897-1936.

Composed primarily of monthly, quarterly, and annual statements of the income from real estate owned wholly or in part by Cyrus H. McCormick, Jr., or administered by him as trustee or executor. Besides real estate reports, more general financial reports by the trustees of Mary Virginia and Stanley are also included, along with legal documents appointing administrators of Stanley's property in 1906 and 1909. Also present are reports on the McCormick Harvesting Machine Co., and material on the proposed additions to the Reaper Block in 1919.

ArchivalResource: 5.2 c.f. (13 archives boxes)

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Leaf, Martin, 1874-1967. Martin Leaf papers, 1914-1964.

Title: Martin Leaf papers, 1914-1964.

Memorabilia, letters, and telegrams, mainly congratulatory, from friends, business associates, and diplomatic officials to Leaf, an International Harvester Company representative in Scandinavia (1902-1936) and the U.S. vice consul in Norrköping, Sweden (1918-1922). Some items comment on International Harvester sales and on World War II conditions in Denmark.

ArchivalResource: 0.5 cu. ft. (1 box).

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McCormick, Cyrus Hall, 1859-1936. Private financial file, 1880-1937.

Title: Private financial file, 1880-1937.

Financial records of Chicago industrialist Cyrus McCormick, Jr. composed of correspondence; pamphlets; telegrams; legal documents including trust agreements, contracts, powers-of-attorney, and deeds of gift; clippings; reports; and financial agreements; dealing with McCormick's private financial affairs, bank loans, gifts, McCormick Harvesting Machine Company related liquidations and finances, the McCormick Historical Association, politics, salaries, and family correspondence relative to Harold F., Mary Virginia, Harriet Hammond, and Nettie Fowler McCormick, and Anita McCormick Blaine.

ArchivalResource: 15.6 c.f. (39 archives boxes)

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McCormick, Cyrus Hall, 1859-1936. Subject file, 1840-1942.

Title: Subject file, 1840-1942.

Papers consisting of correspondence, speeches, articles, maps, telegrams, newspaper clippings, financial statements, accounts, and receipts, reports, and bulletins relating to the business and personal interests of Chicago industrialist Cyrus McCormick, Jr.

ArchivalResource: 55.0 c.f. (138 archives boxes and 1 package)

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McCormick, Harold Fowler, 1872-1941. Harold Fowler McCormick papers, 1892-1947.

Title: Harold Fowler McCormick papers, 1892-1947.

Papers of McCormick, a Chicago industrialist with the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company and the International Harvester Company; consisting of correspondence, notes, business records, appointment books, speeches, clippings, and printed items. These concern financial interests, civic groups, personal and family life, and his publicized peace plan during World War I. Of his business activities the Belle City Malleable Iron Company is best documented. A small portion of the collection consists of papers of his daughter, Muriel, documenting her interest in postwar relief work, the theater, and Chicago grand opera.

ArchivalResource: 36.7 c.f. (91 archives boxes and 1 v.)

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Blaine, Anita McCormick. Additional papers received in 1971, 1850-1958.

Title: Additional papers received in 1971, 1850-1958.

Papers of Chicago philanthropist Anita Blaine, received from her granddaughter in 1971. Composed of diaries, some of her most private correspondence, information relating to her own estate and those of her husband and son, and papers of her husband and her son, this material overlaps in subject matter that of Series 1E and 2E.

ArchivalResource: 39.2 c.f. (98 archives boxes and 1 volume)

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American Medical Association. Dept. of Investigation. Records. Glandogen-Glomerulonephritis (inclusive), 1910-1939.

Title: Records. Glandogen-Glomerulonephritis (inclusive), 1910-1939.

Correspondence, advertisements, articles and clippings, and promotional and supplementary materials on Glandogen, a sexual "rejuvenator" allegedly containing glandular extracts, 1925-1932; glands and glandular nostrums (various patent medicines allegedly containing extracts of animal glands and used for sexual rejuvenation), 1910-1939; THE GLASS CONTAINER, an article by Irwin G. Jennings arguing that doctors and patent medicine firms should pool their ideals and work together to benefit humanity, 1922; and glomerulonephritis (file concerns Ox-I-Das-Ene, a patent medicine alleged to be of benefit for this condition), 1916.

ArchivalResource: 15 folders.

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McCormick, Nettie Fowler, 1835-1923. Nettie Fowler McCormick Biographical Association records, 1802-1949.

Title: Nettie Fowler McCormick Biographical Association records, 1802-1949.

Records of an association formed in 1932 by Mrs. McCormick's children. Virgina Roderick was employed as secretary, and served in this capacity until 1956 when the work of the Association was completed and her biography, Nettie Fowler McCormick, was published. The papers are composed of Miss Roderick's correspondence with individuals, organizations, and institutions in the search for letters and information; recollections and interviews she obtained from hundreds of persons who had known Mrs. McCormick; and both original and copied letters relating to Mrs. McCormick, some of which Harold originally had in his files. Included also are copies of letters from Eldridge M. Fowler to Cyrus H., Jr. concerning Mrs. McCormick, and letters and notes that James G. K. McClure, Sr., had collected for a memoir of Mrs. McCormick.

ArchivalResource: 52.0 c.f. (30 archives boxes, 4 oversize files, 5 card file boxes, and 1 package)

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McCormick family. McCormick family photographs and graphic materials, ca. 1842-1966.

Title: McCormick family photographs and graphic materials, ca. 1842-1966.

Photographs and other graphic materials relating to the family of Cyrus Hall McCormick. Included are cartes-de-visite, lithographs, informal photographs, formal studio photographs, tintypes, painted porcelain, daguerreotypes, and photo albums featuring the children and grandchildren of Cyrus Hall McCormick; the Fowler, Spice, and Merrick families; the Robert McCormick family; and friends of the McCormicks.

ArchivalResource: 14.0 c.f.

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McCormick, Stanley R., 1874-1947. Papers, 1881-1945.

Title: Papers, 1881-1945.

Papers of Stanley R. McCormick, youngest son of industrialist Cyrus Hall and Nettie Fowler McCormick, who became mentally incompetent at the age of thirty-two; consisting of correspondence, notes, minutes, financial accounts, medical reports and charts, legal documents, and transcripts of court hearings. These concern his early business interests, arrangements for his care, controversies between the McCormicks and his wife Katherine, whom he married in 1904, and reports of medical consultants. The papers contain business letters of 1899 and 1900, chiefly in the latter year when he represented the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company at the Paris exposition and corresponded with his Chicago office, his brothers Cyrus, Jr. and Harold, their competitor James Deering, and the Company manager in Hamburg, Germany, W. V. Couchman. A few letters and accounts appear relating to his Cimarron Ranch on the historic Maxwell Land Grant in New Mexico, acquired in 1898 with John W. Garrett but later developed by McCormick. The bulk of the papers deal with the many problems concerning McCormick's care after his breakdown in 1906, and his progressive incapacitation due to a mental disease diagnosed as catatonia. In addition to letters of his wife, members of the McCormick family, and a few friends, correspondence of doctors and psychiatrists such as Frank Billings, Henry Baird Favill, C. G. Jung, Adolf Meyer, and George Tuttle is included, as is a special medical evaluation by August Hoch and Emil Kraepelin. Medical correspondence, reports by nurses and staff, minutes of the board of guardians, financial accounts, and arrangements for his care at the spacious California home provided him are all filed. Four volumes contain court proceedings of 1929-1930 regarding the question of guardianship and his multimillion-dollar estate. Guardians at various times included his wife, Dr. Favill, Cyrus Bentley, Anita McCormick Blaine, Harold Fowler McCormick, and Cyrus McCormick, Jr. The processed portion of this collection is summarized above, dates 1881-1945, and is described in the register. There are unprocessed additions dating 1890-1909 which are described below.

ArchivalResource: 6.0 c.f. (15 archives boxes including 6 volumes); plusadditions of 0.8 c.f.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/145787578 View

McCormick, Cyrus Hall, 1809-1884. Correspondence and subject file, 1788-1939.

Title: Correspondence and subject file, 1788-1939.

Papers of McCormick, inventor of the reaper and a Chicago industrialist, comprising correspondence, memoranda, and letterbooks concerning the growth of the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company in both the domestic and foreign fields, and dealing with McCormick's many other interests, particularly the Presbyterian Church and several charities; his activities as a member of the state and national Democratic party; and his investments, chiefly in Chicago real estate, railroads, and mines. Also included are deeds, contracts, investment proposals, and other documents. Some of the letters are to or from McCormick's wife Nettie Fowler, their son Cyrus, Jr., and others associated with the McCormick Harvesting Machine Co. The earliest dated items were written or received by Cyrus' father, Robert McCormick, and by other family members.

ArchivalResource: 84.6 c.f. (192 archives boxes, 50 card boxes, and 8 volumes)

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McCormick Harvesting Machine Company. Letterpress copy books [microform], 1856-1902.

Title: Letterpress copy books [microform], 1856-1902.

Copies of outgoing correspondence of company officials and secretaries to agents, suppliers, shippers, lawyers, inventors, and other manufacturers concerning both domestic operations and foreign trade. Topics include sales and production goals; field trials and machine performance; prices and contracts; agricultural conditions; arrangements for supplying parts, repairs, and twine; competitors and their practices; problems with unreliable agents; collection policies; agent expenses and commissions; freight routes and costs; and the expansion of the agricultural implement trade. Three letterbooks of R. B. Swift deal with patent matters and inventions and improvements to McCormick implements. Three volumes contain the outgoing correspondence of field agents J. B. Heywood of Indianapolis, D. W. Pratt of St. Louis, and N. E. Barnes of San Francisco. One volume of circular letters to agents contains instructions on prices, sales and advertising strategy, assembly of machines, and similar matters. One letterbook is that of Harold F. McCormick as company vice president, 1899-1900. Letters of Cyrus H. McCormick, particularly concerning foreign markets, appear after he joined the company in 1879.

ArchivalResource: 8.0 c.f. (8 record center cartons) and.472 reels of microfilm (35mm)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122455549 View

McCormick, Cyrus Hall, 1859-1936. Correspondence, 1870-1936.

Title: Correspondence, 1870-1936.

Private and business correspondence of Chicago, Illinois industrialist Cyrus McCormick, Jr., consisting of incoming and outgoing correspondence, copies of monthly financial records, annual reports, newspaper clippings, bulletins, photographs, copies of wills, and other legal documents. A wide variety of subjects is covered, including the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company, investments, trusteeships and settlements of estates, charities and donations, membership in many societies, particularly in Chicago, and family affairs. An alphabetical index to correspondence can be found in boxes 300 through 303.

ArchivalResource: 120.4 c.f. (299 archives boxes, 4 index boxes)

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McCormick, Mary Virginia, 1861-1941. Papers, 1871-1923.

Title: Papers, 1871-1923.

Papers of Mary Virginia McCormick, eldest daughter of Cyrus Hall and Nettie Fowler McCormick who became mentally incompetent at the age of nineteen, consisting of correspondence; early diaries and school notebooks; reports from doctors, nurses, and companions; legal documents; and financial records. These concern relations with members of her family, arrangements for her personal welfare and medical treatment, upkeep of her several homes and estates in the United States and Canada, and plans for travel to her homes and to Europe. Correspondence describes Mary Virginia's daily activities and state of mind and contains detailed advice concerning her care. Medical letters, reports, and casebooks deal with her mental condition. Legal papers relate to sanity hearings and trusteeships. Financial records concern investments; management of her estate; household, personal, and medical bills; and expense accounts. Her papers, ending in the year of her mother's death in 1923, lack any information relating to the last three decades of her life, when she lived chiefly in California as a millionaire recluse with a staff of some thirty persons. Mary Virginia's mother, her brother Cyrus H., Jr., and her uncle Eldridge M. Fowler, served as original conservators and trustees for her share of the estate inherited from her father; her younger brother and sister, Harold and Anita, were successor trustees; and Judson F. Stone, representing McCormick Estates, managed her financial affairs. In addition to the correspondence of each of these individuals and many who cared for her, the papers include medical case histories and diaries of doctors such as Alice Bennett and Sanger Brown; and letters and reports from Grace T. Walker, head of Mary Virginia's household for forty years.

ArchivalResource: 25.2 c.f. (63 archives boxes including 64 volumes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/145787557 View