Harold Fowler McCormick


Harold Fowler McCormick was an American businessman. He was chairman of the board of International Harvester Company and a member of the McCormick family.

Harold Fowler McCormick was born in Chicago May 2, 1872, to inventor Cyrus Hall McCormick and philanthropist Nancy Fowler . During the 1890s he competed in the US National Tennis Championships. In 1895 he married Edith Rockefeller , the youngest daughter of Standard Oil cofounder 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 Rockefellercreated University of Chicago. He and Edith had five children before divorcing in December 1921

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