Harold Fowler
McCormick
Male
United States of America
1872-05-02
Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
1941-10-16
Los Angeles, California, United States of America
From Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Fowler_McCormick
Harold Fowler McCormick was born in Chicago on May 2, 1872, to inventor Cyrus Hall McCormick (1809-1884) and philanthropist Nancy Fowler (1835-1923). During the 1890s, he competed in the US National Tennis Championships. As an officer of the Aero Club of Illinois, founded on February 10, 1910, McCormick became the third president in 1912, following Octave Chanute and James E. Plew.
In 1914, McCormick, Plew, and Bion J. Arnold attempted to form a commuter airline which they announced would begin service in May, “using seaplanes to ferry passengers between various North Shore suburbs and Grant Park and the South Shore Country Club”, of which he was a founder. Lake Shore Airline, which had two seaplanes, was intended to be a profit-making venture charging a steep twenty-eight-dollar round-trip fare between Lake Forest and downtown Chicago on four daily scheduled circuits. However, Chicago’s irregular weather, especially the crosswinds, made a shamble of schedules, and the airline disappeared before the end of the year.
McCormick became chairman of the board of International Harvester Company in 1935, replacing his older brother Cyrus Jr. (1859-1936). On November 26, 1895, he married Edith Rockefeller (1872-1932), the youngest daughter of Standard Oil co-founder John D. Rockefeller and schoolteacher Laura Celestia “Cettie” Spelman.
McCormick became the third inaugural trustee of the Rockefeller Foundation. He was also a trustee of the Rockefeller-created University of Chicago. He and Edith resided at 1000 Lake Shore Drive in Chicago and were the parents of five children before their divorce in December 1921.
After his divorce from Edith, and before his second marriage, McCormick sought to fortify himself by undergoing an operation by Serge Voronoff, a surgeon who specialized in transplanting animal glands into ageing men with impotency. In 1922, McCormick married Polish opera singer Ganna Walska. They divorced in 1931.
McCormick died on October 16, 1941, of a cerebral hemorrhage, at his home in Beverly Hills, California. He was buried at Graceland Cemetery in Chicago.
1891 - 1926
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33
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1891 - US Open Consolation (Open)
Round 2
Harold Fowler McCormick 1 *
George E. Lyttleton-Rogers
6-3
6-2
Round 3
Harold Fowler McCormick 1 *
Robert B. Pope
6-1
6-0
Quarterfinals
Charles Aeschlimann 1 *
Harold Fowler McCormick
6-1
7-5
Round 1
Ward C. Burton 1 *
Harold Fowler McCormick
6-4
6-4
Preliminary Round
Harold Fowler McCormick 1 *
J.W. Gerard
6-1
6-3
Round 1
Valentine Gill Hall 1 *
Harold Fowler McCormick
2-6
6-2
6-1
Round 1
Richard W. Stevens 1 *
Harold Fowler McCormick
6-1
3-6
6-4
7-5
Round 1
Harold Fowler McCormick 1 *
Robert Duffield (Bob) Wrenn
w.o.
Round 2
Deane B. Miller 1 *
Harold Fowler McCormick
6-4
2-6
6-2
Round 1
William Edwards Milne 1 *
Harold Fowler McCormick
4-6
6-4
9-7
Round 1
Harold Fowler McCormick 1 *
E.K. Rowland
6-2
6-1
6-3
Round 2
Richard W. Stevens 1 *
Harold Fowler McCormick
6-0
4-6
7-5
6-1
Preliminary Round
Harold Fowler McCormick 1 *
L.S. Tyler
6-0
6-0
6-2
Round 1
Henry Mortimer Billings Jr. 1 *
Harold Fowler McCormick
6-3
6-2
4-6
6-4
Preliminary Round
Harold Fowler McCormick 1 *
L.C. Sanford
4-6
6-3
6-2
Round 1
Richard W. Stevens 1 *
Harold Fowler McCormick
6-0
6-1
Preliminary Round
Henry Mortimer Billings Jr. 1 *
Harold Fowler McCormick
6-2
14-12
Preliminary Round
Harold Fowler McCormick 1 *
Edward Peale MacMullen
w.o.
Round 2
Clinton R. Wyckoff 1 *
Harold Fowler McCormick
6-3
6-3
Quarterfinals
Harold Fowler McCormick 1 *
William K. Fowler
4-6
6-4
6-2
Semifinals
Samuel Thompson Chase 1 *
Harold Fowler McCormick
9-7
6-2
Round 1
Bill Larned 1 *
Harold Fowler McCormick
8-6
6-4
8-6
Preliminary Round
Bill Larned 1 *
Harold Fowler McCormick
6-4
4-6
6-1
6-3
Round 1
L.C. Sanford 1 *
Harold Fowler McCormick
w.o.
Round 2
Harold Fowler McCormick 1 *
A.A. McKelvey
6-0
6-0
Quarterfinals
Harold Fowler McCormick 1 *
W.H. Cluett
6-2
6-4
Semifinals
Frederick Howard (Fred) Hovey 1 *
Harold Fowler McCormick
6-1
3-6
6-1
Preliminary Round
Charles T. Lee 1 *
Harold Fowler McCormick
6-0
6-4
Round 1
Harold Fowler McCormick 1 *
B.J. Carroll
7-5
6-4
Round 2
Harold Fowler McCormick 1 *
Wilmot Ernest Lane
7-5
5-7
6-1
Quarterfinals
Harold Fowler McCormick 1 *
E.C. Rushmore
6-4
6-3
Semifinals
Harold Fowler McCormick 1 *
Mantle Fielding jr.
9-7
7-5
Final
Harold Fowler McCormick 1 *
Duncan William Candler
8-6
6-4
6-4