Nettie Fowler McCormick correspondence, 1775-1939.

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Nettie Fowler McCormick correspondence, 1775-1939.

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Papers of Nettie Fowler McCormick, a philanthropist and wife of the inventor, Cyrus Hall McCormick, including correspondence with family and friends, with company officials, and with individuals, organizations, and institutions involved in her many philanthropies. Interfiled are legal documents such as powers of attorney, indentures, and contracts; and annual statements and reports. Correspondence before her marriage consists chiefly of letters relating to her own and her husband's ancestors and friends; relatives included the Adams, Esselstyn, Fowler, Merick, and Spicer families. She corresponded regularly with her children Harold, Stanley, Virginia, and Anita and with those who cared for Stanley and Virginia after their mental breakdowns. The papers reveal Mrs. McCormick's role as her husband's aid and her eldest son's advisor. The correspondence illustrates her involvement in business as she accompanied her husband on many trips, discussed problems and wrote letters for him, and in his absence received confidential mail relating to his business and their family life. After Cyrus H. Jr., entered the company in 1879 and became president in 1884, frequent communications between son and mother discuss the business, the estate, and investments. References are made to competitors, patents, and strikes of 1885 and 1886; the unsuccessful attempt to form the American Harvester Company in 1888-1890; and problems attending consolidation when the International Harvester Company was established in 1902. Her close contact with these interests, as well as investments and philanthropies, produced correspondence with lawyers, employees, financial agents, and advisors. Mrs. McCormick received informational copies of many letters and reports from the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company and the International Harvester Company long after she ceased to be closely involved. In the 1890s, Mrs. McCormick gave more attention to her interest in philanthropy, an interest that accounts for fully half of her correspondence. The McCormick Theological Seminary, originally her husband's interest, continued to receive a major share of her attention and funds. Its administrators and faculty, as well as her own pastors at Fourth Presbyterian Church, consulted with her regularly and advised her on other schools and missions. Using the need for Christian service as her personal motivation, she became greatly interested in aiding small schools and academies, particularly those stressing self help for students, manual training, and domestic service. These were chiefly white although some were African-American. Letters give evidence of the extent to which she advised them, influenced their curricula, and helped to maintain them. The extent of her personal involvement is illustrated by her many years of correspondence with Harold S. Clemons, whom she assisted through the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her interest in the welfare of those in the southern Appalachians led her to aid the Home Industrial School at Asheville under Florence Stephenson ; and to give encouragement to the Laurel schools and to projects in mountain crafts, out of which grew correspondence with Frances L. Goodrich. She helped support Thornwell Orphanage in South Carolina, writing to William Plumer Jacobs; and she kept in touch with James G. K. McClure Jr., of the Farmers' Federation in North Carolina. Mrs. McCormick also received numerous requests from civic groups in the Chicago area, and responded to many. Letters concerning the Presbyterian Church, its various boards of education and missions, and its publications comprise much of the correspondence; Bible work and rescue missions were also important to her. In the last thirty years of her life, foreign mission schools claimed much of her attention; and both the personnel and the institutions were her correspondents as well as recipients of her largess. The papers also document her great interest in both the Young Men's and the Young Women's Christian Association, locally, nationally, and internationally. Through numerous letters exchanged with John R. Motte she aided the World's Student Christian Movement and the work of the International Committee of the YMCA. She corresponded also with Fletcher S. Brockman, George M. Day, Sherwood Eddy, Carlisle V. Hibbard, Richard C. Morse, and Luther D. Wishard concerning the YMCA; and with Grace Dodge and Elizabeth Wilson of the YWCA.

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Businessman. From the description of Marshall Field correspondence, 1891-1893. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79450239 American merchant. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Chicago, to Mr. Schell at Harper & Brothers, 1890 Nov. 1. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270517828 ...

Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913

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Collector. From the description of John Pierpont Morgan collection of signers of the Declaration of Independence, 1761-1803. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79448959 Financier, industrial organizer, and art collector. Born in 1837 in Hartford, John Pierpont Morgan was educated in the U.S. and Europe before embarking on a career as a banker. From his first position as an unsalaried clerk at the New York banking firm of Duncan, Sherman & Company, Morgan went on to become a ...

Rice, N. L. (Nathan Lewis), 1807-1877

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Day, George Martin

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American sociologist. From the description of George Martin Day papers, 1922-1937. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754867335 Biographical/Historical Note Professor of sociology, Occidental College, Los Angeles. From the guide to the George Martin Day papers, 1922-1937, (Hoover Institution Archives) ...

Lake Forest University

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Hibbard, Carlisle V., d. 1954.

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Merick family.

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Jacobs, William Plumer, 1893-1948.

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Ackerman, Edward A. (Edward Augustus), 1911-1973

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Edward Augustus Ackerman (1911-1973), was a geographer and water resources authority. He earned a Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1939 and was a professor at Harvard from 1940-1948. Ackerman served as a technical advisor on natural resources to U.S. occupational forces in Japan from 1946- 1948 and then was a professor at the University of Chicago from 1948-1955. From 1952-1954 he served as assistant general manager of the Tennessee Valley Authority and became director of water resources program...

Barr, Norman B. (Norman Burton), 1868-1943

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Norman Burton Barr was born in Mount Palatine, IL, on January 27, 1868. He graduated from the Presbyterian Theological Seminary (now McCormick) in Chicago, in 1897. That same year he began his duties as pastor of the Olivet Presbyterian Church on Chicago's near north side. Under Barr's forty-year pastorate, Olivet Church undertook mammoth local missionary work, eventually operating a settlement house, library, medical dispensary, camp, supervised playground facilities, language classes, and even...

Freudenreich, George.

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Deering, James

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Clemens, Harold S.

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Van Dyke, Henry, 1852-1933

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American clergyman, educator and writer. From the description of Letter to Joseph LeRoy Harrison, 1916 April 25. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 51926632 From the description of Papers of Henry Van Dyke, 1895-1925. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 51926567 Clergyman, Princeton University professor of English literature, and sports writer. From the description of Letters to Eugene V. Connett, 1919-1920. (Manchester City Library)...

Hastings College

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Founded in 1882, Hastings College is a private, four-year, residential institution affiliated with the Presbyterian Church (USA). Throughout our history, Hastings College has occupied a distinguished place among colleges in the Midwest. Our commitment to academic excellence, emphasis on service and experiential learning prepare students for lives well-lived. In 1873, when the community of Hastings itself was just two years old, a small group of forward-looking civic leaders proposed establ...

Farwell, Arthur Burrage.

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Marquis, David M.

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Macalester College

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University of Dubuque. Theological Seminary

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Perkins, George W. (George Walbridge), 1862-1920

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Financier, industrialist. Perkins was a vice president of the New York Life Insurance Company, and a partner in the financial firm of J.P. Morgan. He also took an active part in the formation of the International Harvester Company, and the Northern Securities Company, and in the management of the U.S. Steel Corporation. From the description of George W. Perkins papers, 1871-1920. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 298686852 ...

Bowen, Louisa Haddock de Koven.

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Cothran, J. S. (James Sproull), 1830-1897

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McAfee, John A., -1890

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McCosh, James, 1811-1894

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Scottish philosophical writer, born in Ayrshire; became president and professor of philosophy of the college of New Jersey, at Princeton in 1868; resigned the presidency in 1888 but continued as lecturer on philosophy until his death in 1894. From the description of Letter to Rev. W.F. Farr, 1875 December 3. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 54752223 ...

McAfee, Cleland Boyd, 1866-1944

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Stephenson, Florence.

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Gordon, James F.

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Blanton, L. H. (Lindsay Hughes), 1832-1914

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McClanaghan, S. J.

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Glessner, John Jacob, 1843-1936

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Jamestown College

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McAfee, Lowell Mason.

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Medill, Joseph, 1823-1899

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American journalist. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Chicago, to J.M. dalzell, 1881 Aug. 15. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270636685 Journalist & major stockholder/director of the Chicago Tribune. Active participant in the formation of a "compact" Republican party and personal friend of Abraham Lincoln's. From the description of Joseph Medill letter to S. S. McClure [manuscript], 1893 Sep 8. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 317...

Sullivan, Algernon Sydney, 1826-1887

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Day, Henry, 1820-1893

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Keep, Harriet S.

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Esselstyn family.

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Stanley McCormick School (Burnsville, N.C.)

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Osborne, David Munson, 1822-1886.

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College of the Ozarks (Clarksville, Ark.)

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Coile, S. A.

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McDonald, Bertha L. Roach.

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Palmer, Potter

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Jewett, John N. (John Nelson), 1827-1904

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Fowler family.

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Steuert, Frank A.

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Carse, Matilda B.

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Pryor, Roger A. (Roger Atkinson), 1828-1919

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Roger Atkinson Pryor (1828-1919) was a newspaper editor, lawyer, judge, Confederate general, and member of the U.S. and the Confederate Houses of Representatives. From the description of Letter : Richmond, to H. A. Wise, 1854 January 6. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122647320 U.S. Congressman, Confederate soldier, and jurist. From the description of Letters, 1838-1912. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 154270855 From the description of Lett...

Thornwell Orphanage (Clinton, S.C.)

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Hoge, Mrs. (Jane Currie Blaikie), 1811-1890

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Robinson, George L. (George Livingston), 1864-1958

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George H. Robinson (1868-1950) was a resident of Laketown in Rich County, Utah where he owned and operated a mercantile store. He was a missionary to England in 1896 and 1897 and he served as Laketown's ward bishop from 1905 to 1934. He also served as the Rich County Superintendent of Education from 1903 to 1905, and as a member of the school board from 1917 to 1935. From the description of George H. Robinson photograph collection, 1896-1916. (Utah State University). WorldCat record ...

Edmunds, Charles K. (Charles Keyser), 1876-

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Smith, B. M. (Benjamin Mosby), 1811-1893

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Patterson, Elinor Medill.

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Salvation Army

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Information about this individual or organization may be available in the Special Collections Research Center Wiki: <a href="http://scrc.swem.wm.edu/wiki/index.php/Salvation Army">http://scrc.swem.wm.edu/wiki/index.php/Salvation Army</a>. From the guide to the Salvation Army Combined Corps Roll and Ledger, 1926-1980, 1928-1969, (Special Collections Research Center) ...

Jenkins, William.

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Eddy, Sherwood, 1871-1963

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YMCA secretary for Asia, evangelist and author. From the description of Letter of Sherwood Eddy, 1932. (Wheaton College). WorldCat record id: 31743372 George Sherwood Eddy was born in Leavenworth, Kansas on January 19, 1871. He prepared at Phillips-Andover Academy in Massachusetts from 1887-1888 and earned a Ph.B. degree from Sheffield Scientific School, Yale University in 1891. He attended Union Theological Seminary and graduated from Princeton Theological Seminary, 1891-18...

Grenfell, Wilfred T.

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McCormick Theological Seminary

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Hall, Thomas Cuming, 1858-1936

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Hall was a former slave living in North Carolina. From the description of Interview, 1937. (Brigham Young University). WorldCat record id: 54793100 ...

Dodge, Grace H. (Grace Hoadley), 1856-1914

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Social welfare worker; Philanthropist; Educator From the description of Grace Hoadley Dodge papers, 1882-1995 (bulk 1882-1915) (Smith College). WorldCat record id: 460740016 Grace Hoadley Dodge was born on May 21, 1856 in New York City into a wealthy family with a strong tradition of philanthropic and evangelical activity. She was the oldest of six children born to Sarah Hoadley and William Earl Dodge, Jr. Dodge received most of her education at home from privat...