Title: Cyrus Hall McCormick, Jr., Subject File
Inclusive Dates: 1840-1942

Creator:

• McCormick, Cyrus Hall, 1859-1936

Call Number: McCormick Mss 2C

Quantity: 55.0 c.f. (138 archives boxes and 1 package)

Repository:

Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

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Abstract:

Papers consisting of correspondence, speeches, articles, maps, telegrams, newspaper clippings, financial statements, accounts, and receipts, reports, and bulletins relating to the business and personal interests of Chicago industrialist Cyrus McCormick, Jr. The papers concern McCormick family activities and estates, the International Harvester Company, United States-Russian relations, and organizations and investments involving McCormick. Included are materials on the Elizabeth McCormick Memorial Fund and its financing of open air schools; minutes and other records from McCormick family conferences; information on the estates of Harriet Hammond McCormick and Nettie Fowler McCormick, and on the affairs of Stanley R. McCormick; correspondence, reports, and minutes of the McCormick Theological Seminary; correspondence and records on Princeton University and the Young Men's Christian Association; information on Russia in general and on the 1917 Root Commission; and records of many financial investments, especially the Beaver Cove Lumber and Pulp Company, Ltd., a major investment in the timber industry on Vancouver Island, British Columbia.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-mcc0002c

This material covers the same subjects as McCormick Mss 1C (“Correspondence”) but is arranged by headings for subjects and forms of material. A large group of Clippings is filed under “C” and thereunder by topics; a second group of Clippings can be found at the end of the other materials (in Box 128-134), also filed thereunder by topics.

Processing Information

Processed by Lata Mayer and later by Bill Paul and his assistants.

Box   1	Cable, Jerome B. (Estate), 1897-1903
	Clippings:
Box   2	American Diplomatic Mission to Russia, 1917
Box   2	American National Red Cross, 1916-1917
Box   2	Blaine, Emmons, 1892
Box   2	Cambon, M. Jules (Fr. Ambassador), 1901
Box   3	Chicago's First Families, 1933
Box   3	Chicago Grand Opera, 1915-1918
Box   3	Child Labor, 1915
Box   3	Deering, Wm., 1913
Box   3	French Commission to Chicago, 1917
Box   3	Grand Jury, 1897
Box   3	Henning, John C. vs. Funk, Clarence S., 1911-1912
Box   3	Hubbard, Mrs. Dyer, 1931
	International Harvester Co.
Box   4	Prices, 1907
Box   4	Kansas, 1908
Box   4	Stock, 1908
Box   4	Germany, 1911
	U.S. vs. International Harvester Co.
Box   4	1911-1913
Box   4	Anti Trust Clippings, 1909-1910
Box   5	1914
Box   5	Report of L. Conant, Jr., Commissioner of Corporations, 1912-1913
Box   5	Organization, 1913
Box   5	Miscellaneous, 1913-1920
Box   5	Strike, 1916
Box   6	Miscellaneous, 1928, 1930, 1931-1936
Box   6	Legge, Alexander (Farm Board), 1931
	Lorimer Trial
Box   6-8	1911
Box   9	1911-1912
Box   10	1912
Box   10	McCormick, Cyrus H., 1909, 1930, 1936
Box   10	McCormick, Cyrus H., Jr., 1910-1936
Box   10	McCormick, Mrs. Cyrus H. , 1918
Box   11	McCormick, Cyrus, III, 1914, 1916, 1931
Box   11	McCormick, Edith Rockefeller, 1912, 1923-1924
Box   11	McCormick, Elizabeth, 1911-1912, 1920
Box   11	McCormick Family, 1906-1920, 1932-1936
Box   11	McCormick, Fowler, 1925
	McCormick, Harold F.
Box   12	1914-1928
Box   13	1926, 1933-1934
Box   13	McCormick, Mathilde, 1921-1924
Box   14	McCormick, Muriel, 1921-1926
Box   14	McCormick, Nettie F., 1915-1917
Box   14	McCormick, Price, 1900
Box   14	McCormick, Col. R. R., 1934
Box   14	McCormick, Stanley R., 1909, 1928-1932
Box   14	McCormick Theological Seminary, 1915-1920
Box   14	McCormick Trust Suit, 1925
Box   15	National Association of Manufacturers, 1913
Box   15	Orpet Trial, 1916
Box   15	Political, 1914-1917
Box   15	Princeton, 1931
Box   15	Reaper Centennial, 1931
Box   16	Reciprocity, 1907
	Russian - U.S. Relations
Box   16	1915-1919
Box   17	1919-1922
Box   18	1920-1935
Box   19	Serbian Relief, 1915
Box   19	“Short Selling”, 1932
Box   19	Stone, Rev. John Timothy, 1909
Box   19	Strikes, 1903
Box   19	Taxes, 1907
Box   19	Trusts, 1911, 1913, 1918
Box   20	Unemployment, 1931
Box   20	“When Chicago Was Young”, 1930-1935
	Wilson, Woodrow
Box   20	1902, 1912, 1913
Box   21	1912-1916
Box   22	1913-1918
Box   23	1918
Box   23	YMCA, 1908, 1910, 1915-1921
	Miscellaneous
Box   24	ca. 1915-1930
Box   25	ca. 1915-1938
Box   26	Columbian Exposition (Chicago) , 1890-1892
Box   27	Condolences re: death of Cyrus H. McCormick, Jr., 1936-1937(Vol. 1)
Box   27	Davis, Edward Parker, Poems
Box   28	Hoagland, John R., 1898-1901
Box   28	Hutchinson, William T., 1926-1930
	International Harvester
	Consolidation
Box   29	1879-1907
Box   30	1893-1908
Box   31	1902-1917
Box   32	1903
Box   33	1903-1920
	Correspondence
Box   34	B-E
Box   35	L-M
Box   36	N-O
Box   37	O-R
Box   38	S-W
Box   38A	Miscellaneous
	Welfare
Box   39	1901-1904
Box   40	1904-1905
Box   41	1904-1907
Box   42	1904-1910
	Investments
Box   43	A-Ba
Box   44-54	Beaver Cove Project
Package   1	Beaver Cove Project [continued]
Box   55	Br-Ca
Box   56	Ch-De
Box   57	D-I
Box   58	J-N
Box   59	N-T
Box   60	T-Y
Box   60A	McCormick employees and dealers, 1931
	McCormick Family Affairs
	Lake Forest
Box   61	1882-1894
Box   62	1895-1896
Box   63	1896-1899
Box   64	McCormick, Cyrus H., 1928-1932
Box   64	McCormick, Cyrus H., Jr. (will), 1902
Box   64	McCormick, Cyrus, III
	McCormick, Elizabeth
Box   65-66	Death, 1905
	Memorial Fund-Open Air Schools
Box   67	1908-1924
Box   68	1915-1935
Box   69	Miscellaneous
Box   69	“Open Air Schools” Department of Interior Bulletin , 1917 (Vol. 2)
	McCormick Family Conferences
Box   70	Organization and work of “The Three” and Conference Dockets, 1905-1936
Box   71	Minutes and memoranda, 1919-1935
	Notes
Box   72	, 1911-1931 (Vol. 3)
Box   72	, 1932 (Vol. 4)
Box   73-75	McCormick Family: Miscellaneous
Box   75	McCormick, Harold, Correspondence, 1916-1918
Box   76-78	McCormick, Harriet Hammond: Estate
Box   79-83	McCormick, Nettie Fowler: Estate
	McCormick, Stanley R. (business, personal, legal)
Box   84	1874-1910
Box   85	1901-1926
Box   86	1906-1911
Box   87	1907-1910
Box   88	1907-1929
Box   89	1926-1928
Box   90	1927-1930
Box   91	1927-1931
Box   92	1928-1929
Box   93	1928-1930
Box   94	1928-1931
Box   95	1929-1931
Box   96	1930-1934
Box   97	1932-1936
Box   97	Extracts from Diary of Cyrus H. McCormick, Jr., referring to Stanley McCormick, 1874-1906 (Vol. 5)
Box   97	Financial Statements Covering Trusteeship of Cyrus Bentley, ca. 1909-1926 (Vol. 6)
Box   98	McCormick, Stanley R. Special Legal File, 1928-1931 Scope and Content Note: Containing Briefs and Printed Judicial Decisions Regarding Conflict Between Katharine McCormick and Harold McCormick, Cyrus H. McCormick, Jr., and Anita McCormick Blaine, over Estate of Stanley R. McCormick
	McCormick Theological Seminary
Box   99	Annual Meeting of the Alumni Assn., 1932 April 28
Box   99	Minutes of Executive Committee, 1891-1905
Box   99	Faculty Reports to Board of Directors, 1897-1908
	Board of Directors
	Annual Meetings
Box   99	1886-1928
Box   100	1928-1929, 1932
	Minutes of Annual Meetings
Box   100	1894-1920
Box   101	1931-1936
Box   101	Annual Reports, 1897-1913
	Board of Trustees
Box   101	Treasurers Reports, 1892-1913
Box   102	Meetings, 1891-1899
Box   102	Annual Reports, 1892-1926
Box   103	General Correspondence, 1888-1894
	Miscellaneous
Box   103	1891-1895
Box   104	1886-1928
Box   105	1928-1929, n.d.
Box   106	Treas. Annual Report, 1915-1928 (Vol. 7-20)
	Letterpress Copy Book
Box   106	Presbyterian Theological Seminary of the Northwest, Correspondence, 1884 Feb. 7 - 1887 May 12 (Vol. 21)
	McCormick Theological Seminary
Box   106	Correspondence, 1887 May 11 - 1893 April 25 (Vol. 22)
Box   107	Correspondence and Minutes, 1896 May 6 - 1897 June 15 (Vol. 23)
Box   107	Minutes, 1898 May 4 - 1902 March 4 (Vol. 24)
Box   107	Correspondence, 1898 Dec. 20 - 1909 May 28 (Vol. 25)
Box   108-109	McCormick Theological Seminary: Record of Theological Dispute, 1868-1869
Box   110	McCormick, William S.: Testimony in “Extension Case” of 1848
	Princeton, Correspondence re: “Class of 1879” and General Correspondence
Box   110	1885-1892
Box   111	1893-1896
Box   112	Reaper Sales in Europe, [McCormick Harvesting Machine Company] Correspondence, 1887-1888
Box   113-114	Russia - Special Diplomatic Mission (Root Commission), ca. 1917-1918
Box   115-118	Russia (General), ca. 1917-1924
Box   119-120	Speeches and Articles - Cyrus H. McCormick, Jr.
Box   120A	Speeches and Articles - Cyrus McCormick III
Box   120A	Stickney Estate
Box   120A	World Exposition - Paris, 1900
	YMCA
	Correspondence
Box   121	1888-1894, n.d.
Box   122	1895-1898, n.d.
	Committee of 21
Box   123	1901-1904
Box   124	1900-1904
Box   125	1900-1903
	General
Box   126	1919
Box   127	1919-1923
Box   127A	American Expeditionary Forces, Report of the Construction Department, 1919 May 1
	Clippings
Box   128	American Harvester Co., 1890
	McCormick Family, personal and business
Box   128	1840-1928
Box   129	1929-1932
Box   130	1932-1935
Box   131	1936-1939
Box   132	1939-1941
Box   133	1942-1943; undated
Box   133	Harvester history (Typewritten extracts from the London Times), 1851-1852(Vol. 26)
	Harvester history
Box   134	, 1878-1898(Vol. 27 and 29-31)
Box   134	Patents and royalties
Box   134	McCormick Harvesting Machine Co. Strike, 1886(Vol. 28)