McCormick family family
also: McCormick dynasty, McCormicks
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Claims (10)
Thomas McCormick member_of
McCormick family host_asserted
“So I thought that was funny. All right, the first two to get there was a Thomas, sorry, McCormick, 1702 to 1762. And his wife, Elizabeth Carruth, would get there in the 1700s. Their first son is a Robert McCormick. Anytime you see this arro…”
▶ The Shadow State 56 The Kingmaker Mark Hanna @ 5:01
Elizabeth Carruth member_of
McCormick family host_asserted
“So I thought that was funny. All right, the first two to get there was a Thomas, sorry, McCormick, 1702 to 1762. And his wife, Elizabeth Carruth, would get there in the 1700s. Their first son is a Robert McCormick. Anytime you see this arro…”
▶ The Shadow State 56 The Kingmaker Mark Hanna @ 5:01
Robert McCormick (1738–1818) member_of
McCormick family host_asserted
“So I thought that was funny. All right, the first two to get there was a Thomas, sorry, McCormick, 1702 to 1762. And his wife, Elizabeth Carruth, would get there in the 1700s. Their first son is a Robert McCormick. Anytime you see this arro…”
▶ The Shadow State 56 The Kingmaker Mark Hanna @ 5:01
Robert McCormick (1738–1818) member_of
McCormick family host_asserted
“So that's how you decipher how I'm doing this. And I wish the lines were a little thicker, but you should be able to see them. We can see them. Okay. So next is Robert McCormick. And there'll be a lot more Roberts. There's 1738 to, I'm not …”
▶ The Shadow State 56 The Kingmaker Mark Hanna @ 5:34
Robert McCormick (1738–1818) member_of
McCormick family host_asserted
“He's about the right age, 1738. He would have been about 40 years old. And of their children, there was a George McCormick, a Martha McCormick, an Elizabeth McCormick, a William McCormick, then a James McCormick. And finally, the youngest a…”
▶ The Shadow State 56 The Kingmaker Mark Hanna @ 6:04
Cyrus McCormick member_of
McCormick family host_asserted
“So let's look at his sons. First thing we're going to do is Cyrus McCormick. Cyrus Hall McCormick took his mother's maiden name as his middle name, as was the tradition. Cyrus is a bit of a genius. He's an inventor and a businessman. He's b…”
▶ The Shadow State 56 The Kingmaker Mark Hanna @ 8:25
Leander McCormick member_of
McCormick family host_asserted
“In 1845, and he builds a factory, finds a factory in a place called Brookport, New York, so he could mass produce these. 1847, their father passes away and he moves the business to Chicago. And that's where we got the Chicago McCormick's. H…”
▶ The Shadow State 56 The Kingmaker Mark Hanna @ 9:38
Martha Sanderson McCormick member_of
McCormick family host_asserted
“5.4 billion today and i changed my mind on the order i want to do this so bear with me i just want to talk a little bit about william sanderson mccormick born in 1815 dies in 1865 a relatively young man born in virginia he's a businessman a…”
▶ The Shadow State 56 The Kingmaker Mark Hanna @ 20:27
Martha Sanderson McCormick member_of
McCormick family host_asserted
“William would travel to Europe to promote the international sales. Now, this poor gentleman suffered from what's known as nervous dyspepsia, and he would end up dying in an asylum in 1865. So he had a short life. His wife is a Marianne Grig…”
▶ The Shadow State 56 The Kingmaker Mark Hanna @ 21:28
Leander McCormick member_of
McCormick family host_asserted
“William would travel to Europe to promote the international sales. Now, this poor gentleman suffered from what's known as nervous dyspepsia, and he would end up dying in an asylum in 1865. So he had a short life. His wife is a Marianne Grig…”
▶ The Shadow State 56 The Kingmaker Mark Hanna @ 21:28
Mentions (26)
▶ 1:00:02
What can I say? I'm a Padres fan. At least he's not a Dodger. Right, Ron? We've got three members of the McCormick family. None of them are all that special. Just another family with a lot of people that went to the same school. Here's a fu…
▶ 2:56
We're going through, you know, the founders, the 1850s, 70s, 1880s, 90s, and now we're in the 1900s. And the first two guys we see are a couple of brothers from the McCormick family. You have Joseph Medill McCormick, class of 1900, and Robe…
▶ 3:24
I, yes, I ran across them a couple of times, not intimately familiar with. Yeah, you're going to be blown away with some of the connections and it's going to tie into some of our other feeds, other themes. So with no further ado, I'm going …
▶ 3:55
I use a number of different websites for this family-free stuff. And this one's from Genie Annette, as in genealogy. And even this isn't perfect because I've got this guy marrying his daughter. So that's really not cool. But anyway, good in…
▶ 5:01
So I thought that was funny. All right, the first two to get there was a Thomas, sorry, McCormick, 1702 to 1762. And his wife, Elizabeth Carruth, would get there in the 1700s. Their first son is a Robert McCormick. Anytime you see this arro…
▶ 5:34
So that's how you decipher how I'm doing this. And I wish the lines were a little thicker, but you should be able to see them. We can see them. Okay. So next is Robert McCormick. And there'll be a lot more Roberts. There's 1738 to, I'm not …
▶ 6:04
He's about the right age, 1738. He would have been about 40 years old. And of their children, there was a George McCormick, a Martha McCormick, an Elizabeth McCormick, a William McCormick, then a James McCormick. And finally, the youngest a…
▶ 7:49
Yeah. So remember, this is 1830. We're about ready to expand west. And a lot of new states and territories are farming territory. So this is, his invention is a big opportunity. So, oh, it's interesting enough. In 2002, Robert Jr. and three…
▶ 8:25
So let's look at his sons. First thing we're going to do is Cyrus McCormick. Cyrus Hall McCormick took his mother's maiden name as his middle name, as was the tradition. Cyrus is a bit of a genius. He's an inventor and a businessman. He's b…
▶ 9:38
In 1845, and he builds a factory, finds a factory in a place called Brookport, New York, so he could mass produce these. 1847, their father passes away and he moves the business to Chicago. And that's where we got the Chicago McCormick's. H…
▶ 11:19
And there were legal issues over who had the right patent. This goes back to 1831. They've been going back and forth in and out of courts. So the famous trial in 1855, the McCormicks go to trial with John Henry Manny, a guy from Rockford, I…
▶ 11:48
went over to the Paris Exposition of 1855 and actually beat the McCormick Reaper as a better performing Reaper. So McCormick sees this, files a suit for patent infringement. So Cyrus McCormick, who is now running the family business, this i…
▶ 12:23
Because these guys are from out of state. They decide to hire a local lawyer from Illinois. You might have heard of his name is Abraham Lincoln. This court goes all the way to the Supreme Court and Manny wins. That may have been political, …
▶ 12:55
probably has something to do with the fact that McCormick was very outspoken in his opposition to a guy by the name of Abraham Lincoln, and his criticism of the Republican Party probably hurt his cause. Now, what's going on in the 1850s and…
▶ 15:26
And they're very vindictive and vengeful politically. So McCormick's been a lifelong Democrat and decides he goes to Congress to try to protect his patent, but nothing is done due to the politics. And basically, Cyrus is of the opinion the …
▶ 17:39
farther obviously than we normally do but it's the exact same they're looking for markets to put their industrial um uh capability in in order to enrich themselves and they don't care about the people that they displace to do it you have an…
▶ 19:14
The Great Chicago Fire burns the factory down. They build it right back up by 1873. By 1879, his brother Leander would change the company's name from Cyrus H. McCormick and Brothers to the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company. And Cyrus is …
▶ 19:55
First one, very important. Actually, you know what? Let's do the brothers first. And now go in the order I have it. Cyrus McCormick Jr., handsome lad. 1859 to 1936, he became the president of the McCormick harvesting machine from 1884 to 19…
▶ 20:27
5.4 billion today and i changed my mind on the order i want to do this so bear with me i just want to talk a little bit about william sanderson mccormick born in 1815 dies in 1865 a relatively young man born in virginia he's a businessman a…
▶ 20:57
Of 1837, the farm had a lot of trouble, and he jumps in and makes the company profitable again. So he's a good business head. When the two brothers left for Chicago, Cyrus stays home to take care of the estate. That was in 1846. In 1850, he…
▶ 21:28
William would travel to Europe to promote the international sales. Now, this poor gentleman suffered from what's known as nervous dyspepsia, and he would end up dying in an asylum in 1865. So he had a short life. His wife is a Marianne Grig…
▶ 22:15
And basically, he was the business side of things. A few other McCormick's been worth mentioning. So, we'll go back up to Cyrus. Okay. Cyrus and Nettie. They have, how many children do they have? They have seven children. And we start with …
▶ 23:00
would be sold to Dresser Industries in 1984. That was the payline construction division. Dresser Industries, of course, was the employer of George H.W. Bush and would eventually become Halliburton. And that payline construction company is t…
▶ 23:35
inherited a huge business. What do we know about him? He was a member of the Jekyll Island Club. Of course he was. I believe it was Senator Aldrich stayed at his cabin when they created the Federal Reserve. Cyrus McCormick Jr., his picture …
▶ 24:45
Cyrus was famous for his bitter fights with union workers. And there's a famous event called the Haymarket Massacre. Yep. You heard of it? Yes. It was a peaceful rally. They were trying to strike for an eight-hour workday, heaven forbid. An…
▶ 25:50
This event became one of the rallying points for global labor and happened on May 4th, which turned into May Day, which is the International Communist Day or what have you. Interestingly, that eight anarchists were wrongly accused and hung.…