Memoranda books, diaries, scrapbooks, 1850-1912.

  1. Resources
  2. View Resource

ArchivalResource

Memoranda books, diaries, scrapbooks, 1850-1912.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/173702185

Diaries, memoranda, and scrapbooks of McCormick, Chicago philanthropist and wife of the inventor of the reaper, Cyrus Hall McCormick. The diaries cover her three years in female seminaries in New York state, the period from 1856 through 1877, and a trip to Egypt for her son Stanley's health in 1896. In addition, there are two notebooks, 1852-1853, kept while a student at Troy Female Academy in New York; six very small books noting shopping lists and personal expenditures, especially while on trips abroad; and two volumes of diaries, 1851-1860, by her cousin, Ermina G. Merick, making frequent reference to Nettie. Of the scrapbooks, one records the success of the McCormick reaper at the London exhibition in 1862; one contains clippings of letters by McCormick published in church papers, 1868-1869, concerning a dispute with Willis Lord involving the McCormick Theological Seminary; and two consist of clippings, programs, and photographs, 1909-1912, regarding admission of Cyrus H. McCormick, Sr., to the Illinois Farmers' Hall of Fame.

1.8 c.f. (4 archives boxes and 1 package)

Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 6926170

Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

Related Entities

There are 10 Entities related to this resource.

Illinois Farmers' Hall of Fame.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6bk6mw5 (corporateBody)

McCormick family.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w61560m6 (person)

New York Ladies' Southern Relief Association.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6vb3hr7 (corporateBody)

McCormick, Nettie Fowler, 1835-1923

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6183t0z (person)

Lord, Willis, 1809-1888

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6k661hk (person)

McCormick Theological Seminary

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6s50sbp (corporateBody)

Emma Willard School (Troy, N.Y.)

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6s51254 (corporateBody)

Merick, Ermina G.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6sj33j1 (person)

McCormick, Stanley R., 1874-1947.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6rz0vz6 (person)

McCormick, Cyrus Hall, 1809-1884

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w63n29s3 (person)

American inventor. From the description of Autograph signature clipped from the register of Brown's Hotel : Washington, D. C., [n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270608834 Cyrus H. McCormick, inventor of the reaper, was, at the time of this letter, engaged in his fruitless efforts to renew the patent for his invention. From the description of My faithful servant, Joseph, 1854 December 2. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122700825 Inventor, from Chicago...