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Identifier: financialgiantso00redm2 (find matches)
Title: Financial giants of America
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Redmond, George F
Subjects: Capitalists and financiers
Publisher: Boston, Mass., The Stratford company
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ent,and confines its activities to manufacturing reapers and binders.It manufactures some thirty different machines for farmers. Cyrus H. McCormick, the elder, died on May 13, 1884.Of his two brothers, who entered into business with him in1850, William S. died in 1865; Leander J. became the vice-president of the McCormick Harvesting Machine Co. of Chi-cago, which position he held a few years. In 1838 Mr. Cyrus H. McCorm.ick married a daughterof the late Melzer Fowler, of Detroit. She was a great help-mate to him, for her business sagacity greatly helped her hus-bands enterprise. TTieir family consisted of three son? andtwo daughters. The family residence was for the greater partof the year in Chicago, but he had a country seat at RichfieldSprings, New York, where the summer was usually spent. Likehis Scotch ancestors, Mr. McCormick was a Presbyterian andwas a liberal giver to that denomination, as well as many othercharities. He was large-minded and liberal in his hospitalities. (306)
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WILLIAM E. COREY William Ellis Corey grew up with Charles M.Schwab. They played together and worked to-gether. They became identified with the sameindustry—steel. Yet the make up of Corey is ex-actly opposite that of Schwab. Coreys life and success have been built on theprinciples of efficiency, production—and more pro-duction. The men in the mills were mere auto-matons to him. He thought very little of thehuman side of the business—but he got results! WILLIAM E. COREY WILLIAM ELLIS COREY, former president of thethe United States Steel Corporation and one of Car-negies forty partners, was born in 1866, at Brad-dock, Pennsylvania. He was the son of a retired coalmerchant. Corey had been a boyhood friend of Charles M.Schwab in Braddock, when Schwab was working in a grocerystore and Corey was working on a coal tipple. Both gotdollar-a-day jobs from the Carnegie Co. and worked up tobe superintendents at 2 1. Both married Braddock girls. Bothbecame armor-plate specialists. Both made

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