Papers, 1881-1945.

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Papers, 1881-1945.

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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.

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

Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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SNAC Resource ID: 6850113

Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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Exposition Universelle (1900 : Paris, France)

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McCormick, Harold Fowler, 1872-1941.

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Hoch, August, 1868-1919

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McCormick, Stanley R., 1874-1947.

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Meyer, Adolf, 1866-1950

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Psychiatrist. From the description of Adolf Meyer correspondence, 1936. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70984638 Docent of psychiatry at Clark University. From the description of Scientific papers / Aolf Meyer. (Clark University). WorldCat record id: 224040269 ...

McCormick, Cyrus H. (Cyrus Hall), 1859-1936

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Garrett, John Work, 1872-1942

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John Work Garrett was an American banker, diplomat, and bibliophile. He was born in Baltimore, MD in 1872. He received the B.S. degree from Princeton in 1895 and became a member of the family firm, Robert Garret & Sons in 1896. Garrett joined the Foreign Service in 1901 and served at several foreign offices including Venezuela, the Netherlands, and Argentina. He returned to Baltimore in 1922 and ran unsuccessfully as the Republican candidate for the U.S. ...

Jung, C.G. (Carl Gustav), 1875-1961

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Psychoanalyst and author. From the description of Letter, 1935. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 34149490 Psychologist and psychiatrist. From the description of C.G. Jung papers, 1909-1955. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70983585 Epithet: Professor psychologist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001039.0x0000da Swiss psychoanalyst. From the description of C.G. Ju...

Bentley, Cyrus.

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Favill, Henry Baird, 1860-1916.

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McCormick Harvesting Machine Company

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Couchman, W. V.

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Billings, Franklin S. (Franklin Swift), 1862-1935

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Blaine, Anita McCormick

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Deering, James

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Tuttle, George E.

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