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Robert Rutherford " Colonel " McCormick (July 30, 1880 – April 1, 1955) was an American lawyer, businessman and anti-war activist. A member of the McCormick family of Chicago, McCormick became a lawyer, Republican Chicago alderman, distinguished U.S. Army officer in World War I, and eventually owner and publisher of the Chicago Tribune newspaper.
Nov 5, 2009 · For the Tribune’s imperious editor and publisher, Colonel Robert R. McCormick, the Lingle murder remained a lifelong embarrassment and concern.References to the case show up over and over again ...
The Colonel: The Life and Legend of Robert R. McCormick, 1880-1955. Richard Norton Smith. Drawing on McCormick’s personal papers and years of research, Richard Norton Smith has written the definitive life of the towering figure known as The Colonel.
Robert McCormick Jr.(1780–1846) was an American inventor who lived in rural Virginia.[1] His maternal grandparents were Scottish immigrants, George Sanderson and Catharine (née Ross) Sanderson, and paternal grandparents were Thomas (1702–1762) and Elizabeth (néeCarruth) McCormick, Presbyterian immigrantsborn in County Londonderryand ...
Robert Hall McCormick (June 8, 1780 – July 4, 1846) was an American inventor who invented numerous devices including a version of the reaper which his eldest son Cyrus McCormick patented in 1834 and became the foundation of the International Harvester Company. Although he lived his life in rural Virginia, he was patriarch of the McCormick ...
Colonel Robert R. McCormick was born on July 30, 1880, in Chicago, Illinois, to Robert Sanderson McCormick and Katherine Medill McCormick. His father had been US ambassador to Austria-Hungary, Russia and France. His mother was the daughter of Joseph Medill, the driving force behind the Chicago Tribune newspaper in the second half of the ...
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Apr 16, 2020 · Formerly housed at Cantigny Park, McCormick’s estate in Wheaton, Illinois, the archive was a gift of the Chicago Tribune Company, the Robert R. McCormick Foundation, and Nexstar Media Group. Its voluminous contents include personal, family, and Tribune business papers. Preliminary measurements suggest it will fill 600 linear feet of space ...
