Cyrus Hall McCormick

MCCORMICK

Posted By: Volunteer: Roxanne Riggan
Date: 5/25/2012 at 20:19:44

M’CORMICK TO BE BURIED THURSDAY

Chicago.- (AP) - Funeral services will be held tomorrow for Cyrus Hall McCormick, millionaire industrialist whose life spanned an agricultural renaissance occasioned by the reaper his father invented.

Dr. John Timothy Stone and Dr. Harrison Ray Anderson will conduct the rites at 2:30 p.m. at the Fourth Presbyterian church of Chicago. Private services will follow in Graceland cemetery, where the parent and first wife of the former head of the International Harvester Co. were buried.

McCormick, 77 died yesterday at his estate in suburban Lake Forest.

Source: Van Buren Co. Genealogical Society Scrapbook A, page 378, Keosauqua Public Library; Keosauqua, IA