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Fowler McCormick Papers, 1878-1972
Creator: McCormick, Fowler, 1898-1972 Quantity: 5.2 c.f. (14 archives boxes)
Call Number: McCormick Mss K
Abstract: Papers of McCormick, a third-generation executive of the International Harvester Company; consisting mainly of materials relating to the company and to McCormick's personal business interests, plus a few personal papers. Included are correspondence, committee reports, Executive Council minutes, financial statements, magazine and newspaper clippings, pamphlets and other printed materials, speeches, and other papers. The majority of the papers cover the years 1941-1958. Included among the International Harvester materials is information on the 1946 reorganization of the company, on their 1947 lowering of prices to help balance the national economy, on McCormick's business philosophy and influences upon its development, and on many other topics. Other files concern McCormick's involvement in various national governmental economic agencies and committees. Miscellaneous personal papers contain a Rockefeller family genealogy, and earlier family correspondence.
Summary Information
• ... Fowler McCormick Papers, ...
• ... : McCormick, Fowler, 1898-1972: : ...
• ...ck, Fowler, 1898-1972: : McCormick Mss K 5.2 c.f. (14 archives boxes) ...
• ... Papers of McCormick, a third-generation executive of the International Harvester Company; consisting mainly of ...
• ... the International Harvester Company; consisting mainly of materials relating to the company and to McCormick's personal business interests, plus a few personal papers. Included are correspondence, co ...
• ...anization of the company, on their 1947 lowering of prices to help balance the national economy, on McCormick's business philosophy and influences upon its development, and on many other topics. Other ...
• ...iness philosophy and influences upon its development, and on many other topics. Other files concern McCormick's involvement in various national governmental economic agencies and committees. Miscellan ...
Biography/History
• ... (Harold) Fowler McCormick was a member of the third generation of the McCormick family to head the International Har ...
• ... (Harold) Fowler McCormick was a member of the third generation of the McCormick family to head the International Harvester Company, which had its beginnings in the McCorm ...
• ...f the McCormick family to head the International Harvester Company, which had its beginnings in the McCormick Harvester Company founded by Fowler McCormick's grandfather, Cyrus Hall McCormick, the inv ...
• ...al Harvester Company, which had its beginnings in the McCormick Harvester Company founded by Fowler McCormick's grandfather, Cyrus Hall McCormick, the inventor of the reaper. Fowler ...
• ...beginnings in the McCormick Harvester Company founded by Fowler McCormick's grandfather, Cyrus Hall McCormick, the inventor of the reaper. Fowler McCormick was the first child born ...
• ...cCormick's grandfather, Cyrus Hall McCormick, the inventor of the reaper. Fowler McCormick was the first child born to Harold F. McCormick and Edith Rockefeller McCormick. He was bo ...
• ...e inventor of the reaper. Fowler McCormick was the first child born to Harold F. McCormick and Edith Rockefeller McCormick. He was born in Chicago on 15 November 1898, heir to two o ...
• ... Fowler McCormick was the first child born to Harold F. McCormick and Edith Rockefeller McCormick. He was born in Chicago on 15 November 1898, heir to two of the country's most notable eco ...
• ...to two of the country's most notable economic dynasties. His father was the third son of Cyrus Hall McCormick; and his mother, the daughter of John D. Rockefeller, Sr., was an heiress to the Standard ...
• ...aughter of John D. Rockefeller, Sr., was an heiress to the Standard Oil fortune. McCormick attended the Francis W. Parker School in Chicago and then Groton in Massachusetts, from wh ...
• ... in 1918 to enter Princeton University. After graduation from Princeton in 1921, McCormick organized his own brokerage firm rather than choosing a career in either Standard Oil or t ...
• .... For the next four years as student-apprentice he studied manufacturing, engineering, and selling. McCormick worked his way up in the company, becoming president of International Harvester in 1941, f ...
• ... chief executive and policy making official. As head of International Harvester, McCormick set up a research division on labor-management relations and instituted one of the foremos ...
• ...he foremost anti-discriminatory policies in American labor relations. In his dealings with the CIO, McCormick developed a new industrial relations theory, balancing the “tripod of stockholders, consum ...
• ...ns theory, balancing the “tripod of stockholders, consumers, and employees.” McCormick resigned as Harvester's Chairman of the Board in 1951, but remained a member of the Board unti ...
• ...'s Chairman of the Board in 1951, but remained a member of the Board until 1958. McCormick married Anne Potter Stillman on 4 June 1931. They had no children, but raised her four chi ...
• ...n on 4 June 1931. They had no children, but raised her four children from a previous marriage. Anne McCormick died in 1969, and Fowler McCormick on 6 January 1972 in Palm Desert, California. ...
• ...ren, but raised her four children from a previous marriage. Anne McCormick died in 1969, and Fowler McCormick on 6 January 1972 in Palm Desert, California. ...
Scope and Content Note
• ...Palm Desert, California. The Fowler McCormick papers mainly contain materials relating to the International Harvester Company and McCorm ...
• ...owler McCormick papers mainly contain materials relating to the International Harvester Company and McCormick's personal business interests. There is also one archives box of McCormick's personal pape ...
• ...al Harvester Company and McCormick's personal business interests. There is also one archives box of McCormick's personal papers. The collection includes correspondence, committee reports, financial st ...
• ...ng from the latter 19th century to 1970, the majority of the papers cover the years 1941-1958, when McCormick was an International Harvester executive. The collection is divided into six series: Inter ...
• ...executive. The collection is divided into six series: International Harvester Company, Manuscripts (McCormick's speeches and articles), National Affairs, Occasions and Events, Publications, and Person ...
• ...nd “stockholder relations.” The “Board of Directors” sub-series includes McCormick's 1946-1959 correspondence to Board members and others concerning Board activities, and an article ...
• ...r World in 1950 about the Board of Directors of International Harvester. McCormick's tripod business philosophy was not fully developed until his ascension to Chairman of th ...
• ...ess philosophy.” The correspondence file is of business correspondence between McCormick and his employees and associates, the majority of which was written during the 1950's. The a ...
• ...alphabetical by name. The “Directors' file” sub-series is basically the file McCormick kept while a member of the Executive Committee of Harvester's Board of Directors from 1951 to ...
• ...cutive Council minutes (1951-1959); reports of the operations' review committee (1952-1958); Fowler McCormick's exchanges with or about the president of International Harvester (1946-1959); data gathe ...
• ... correspondence pertaining to Board meetings, travel expenses and Directors' compensation; and McCormick's general and miscellaneous correspondence (1951-1962). The “foreign op ...
• ...“foreign operations” material includes correspondence and miscellaneous printed materials about McCormick's 1950 European trip. The “industrial relations” file contains materials co ...
• ...lated material. The “major news releases” are those made during the years of McCormick's presidency of International Harvester and during the period he presided as Chairman of the B ...
• ... The sub-series titled “organization” contains “change” letters written by McCormick (1941-1950) re changes in the International Harvester organization. T ...
• ...rd of the basic thoughts and arguments leading up to this decision, and printed material drafted by McCormick and others about the reorganization and its purpose. The “resignation” ...
• ...bout the reorganization and its purpose. The “resignation” material includes McCormick's notes on the company's position (1951-1954), his personal correspondence, and newspaper clip ...
• ...lders. Manuscripts was the title McCormick chose for the file of his speeches and articles, or the outline notes or transcripts there ...
• ... The National Affairs file deals with different aspects of McCormick's involvement in or with various national government agencies or committees. Thirteen sub- ...
• ...ude correspondence, articles, clippings, pamphlets, reports, and miscellaneous materials concerning McCormick's membership on the Committee for Economic Development, the Economic Stabilization Advisor ...
• ... the U.S. War Department's Manpower Board, and the U.S. War Department's Industrial Advisory staff; McCormick's February 1951 foreign policy memoranda; articles, clippings and correspondence concernin ...
• ...1 foreign policy memoranda; articles, clippings and correspondence concerning national politics and McCormick's involvement therein (1943-1950); and McCormick's correspondence with the U.S. State Depa ...
• ...nd correspondence concerning national politics and McCormick's involvement therein (1943-1950); and McCormick's correspondence with the U.S. State Department's Secretary of State, George Marshall (194 ...
• ... Occasions and Events chronicles the various awards and honors bestowed on McCormick (1947-1949). Each of the six sub-series is re an individual a ...
• ... Publications series contains articles and pamphlets written about the McCormick's and/or International Harvester (1933-1962). Each of the ten items is in an individual fo ...
• ... Personal Miscellaneous includes scattered material relating to McCormick personally, including his 9th grade English notebook, his father's publications, a Rockefe ...
• ...notebook, his father's publications, a Rockefeller genealogy, and correspondence from Nettie Fowler McCormick to Miss H.M. Hammond (1878-1901). The original order of the Fowler McCo ...
• ...ler McCormick to Miss H.M. Hammond (1878-1901). The original order of the Fowler McCormick Papers has been maintained. In the last (fourteenth) box of the collection there is a “she ...
Administrative/Restriction Information
• ...inistrative/Restriction Information Presented by the McCormick Estates, Chicago, Illinois, August 7, 1973. M73-227 ...
Contents List
International Harvester Company
series
Director's file
subseries • ...McCormick exchanges with I.H.C. president, 1946 - 1959. ... Organization
subseries • ... “Change letters” written by McCormick.: ... Reorganization of I.H.C., 1944
subseries • ...McCormick, Fowler. “Harvester Adopts `Division' Type of Organization,” ... National Affairs
series
• ... Committee for Economic Development (McCormick a member and honorary trustee): Correspondence, articles, and pamphlets, ... Occasions and Events (Awards and Honors)
series
• ...elations,” Feb. 25, 1947 : (an address by Fowler McCormick): 11 ... • ...ture,” November 22, 1949 : (an address by Fowler McCormick): 12 ... Publications
series
• ... Benson, Nathaniel. “Men of Achievement: Fowler McCormick,” Forbes, ... • ... “Fowler McCormick: Self-Made Man,” Fortune, ... • ... “Fowler McCormick Sparks the Reorganization of Harvester,” Finance, ... • ... Vol. 8, No. 2 (August 1933) : (with notes on McCormick): 12 ... Personal Miscellaneous
series
• ... Rich, Daniel Catton. “Chauncey McCormick: Some Recollections,” Art Institute of Chicago Quar ... • ... Miscellaneous correspondence of Fowler McCormick, his parents and grandparents: ... • ... Cyrus McCormick: Fishwick, Marshall W. “Walnut Grove--Where Farm Merchandise Began,” ... • ... Employee's Record Cards of Cyrus, Cyrus Jr., Harold F., and Fowler McCormick: 13 ... • ...McCormick, Harold F. Development of the Study of Human Rela ... • ...McCormick, Harold F. How Terms of Peace Can be Automaticall ... • ... Leander McCormick: Genealogical line of, through June 1 1946 ... • ... Memorial Resolution of Harold F. McCormick, Adopted by Board of Directors of I.H.C., November ... |