Editing Cyrus McCormick (section)

==Family relationships==
{{see also|McCormick family}}
On January 26, 1858, 49-year-old Cyrus McCormick married [[Nancy Fowler McCormick|Nancy "Nettie" Fowler]].<ref>Chaim M. Rosenberg, ''The International Harvester Company: A History of the Founding Families and Their Machines'' (McFarland, 2019)  pp.24–25.</ref> She was an orphan from New York who had graduated from the Troy Female Seminary and moved to Chicago. They had met six months earlier and shared views about business, religion and Democratic party politics.<ref name="liberty-virtue-independence.blogspot.com">{{Cite web|url=http://liberty-virtue-independence.blogspot.com/2011/11/cyrus-and-nettie-mccormick.html|title=Virtue, Liberty, and Independence: Cyrus and Nettie McCormick|website=Liberty-virtue-independence.blogspot.com|date=22 November 2011|access-date=14 December 2021}}</ref> They had seven children:
# [[Cyrus McCormick Jr.|Cyrus Hall McCormick Jr.]] was born May 16, 1859.
# [[Mary Virginia McCormick]] was born May 5, 1861.
# Robert McCormick III was born October 5, 1863, and died January 6, 1865.
# [[Anita McCormick Blaine|Anita McCormick]] was born July 4, 1866, married Emmons Blaine on September 26, 1889, and died February 12, 1954. Emmons was a son of the US. Secretary of State [[James G. Blaine]].<ref>{{cite news |title= Emmons Blaine Married; His Wedding with Miss Anita M'Cormick; Many Distinguished Guests Witnessed the Ceremony at Richfield Springs Yesterday |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1889/09/27/109322838.pdf |newspaper=The New York Times |date= September 27, 1889 | access-date= January 5, 2011 }}</ref>
# Alice McCormick was born March 15, 1870, and died less than a year later on January 25, 1871.
# [[Harold Fowler McCormick]] was born May 2, 1872, married [[Edith Rockefeller McCormick|Edith Rockefeller]], and died in 1941. Edith was the youngest daughter of Standard Oil co-founder [[John D. Rockefeller|John Davison Rockefeller]] and schoolteacher [[Laura Spelman Rockefeller|Laura Celestia "Cettie" Spelman]].
# Stanley Robert McCormick was born November 2, 1874, married [[Katharine McCormick|Katharine Dexter]] (1875–1967), and died January 19, 1947.<ref name="family">{{cite book |title= Family record and biography |publisher= L.J. McCormick |author= [[Leander J. McCormick]] |year= 1896 |pages= [https://archive.org/details/familyrecordand00mccogoog/page/n16 303]–304 |url= https://archive.org/details/familyrecordand00mccogoog }}</ref>

Mary and Stanley both had [[schizophrenia]].<ref>{{cite journal |author= Miriam Kleiman |title= Rich, famous, and questionably sane: when a wealthy heir's family sought help from a hospital for the insane |journal= Prologue: Quarterly of the National Archives and Records Administration |date= Summer 2007 |volume= 39 |number = 2 |pages= 38–47 |url= https://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2007/summer/mccormick.html }}</ref> Stanley McCormick's life inspired the 1998 novel ''[[Riven Rock]]'' by [[T. Coraghessan Boyle]].<ref>{{cite web |title= Riven Rock |author= [[T. Coraghessan Boyle]] |work= author's web page |url= http://www.tcboyle.com/page2.html?2,11 |access-date= December 29, 2010 }}</ref>

Cyrus McCormick was an uncle of [[Robert Sanderson McCormick]] (son-in-law of [[Joseph Medill]]); granduncle of [[Joseph M. McCormick|Joseph Medill McCormick]] and [[Robert R. McCormick|Robert Rutherford McCormick]]; and great-granduncle of [[William McCormick Blair Jr.]]<ref name="family"/>

 {{McCormick Chicago family tree}}