New-York tribune., 1919-04-17
Robert Mccormick,
U. S. Ex-Ambassador
To France, Is Dead
Father Of Illinois Senator
Also Was Minister TO
Austria and Served in the
St. Petersburg Embassay

CHICAGO, April 16.-Robert Sander
son Mccormick, American diplomat
and father of United States Senator
Medill Mccormick, of Illinois, and
Robert R. Mccormick, one of the edi-
tors of "The Chicago Tribune" died of
pneumonia to-day at his home in Hins-
dale, near here. III health forced him
to retire as United States Ambassador
to France in 100.
MIR. Mccormick was born July IS.
lS49, in Bockbridge County, Va, the
son of William S. Mccormick. who.
with his brothers, Cyrus H., ST.. and
Leander, shortly afterward came to
Chicago. Members of this family, the
Nirslnian grandfather and especially
his eldest son, Cyrus, developed the
reaper from crude beginnings to the
great factor it afterward Became in
farm life.
Robert S. Mccormick, educated at the
Chicago University and the University
of Virginia, became a collector of books
and Napolconic biographies and erch-
lngs.
In 1876 Mr.. Mccormick was married
to Miss Katherine Medill, daughter of
Joseph Medill, who founded "The Chi
cago Tribune"
Mr.. Mccormick served three years
as first secretary to the United States
Legation in London under Minister
Robert T. Lincoln
In 1901 President Mckinley ap-
pointed him Minister to Austria to sue
ceed Addison c. Harrison. In 1908
President Roosevelt transferred Mr.
Mccormick to the embassy in Russia
and in 1905 made him ambassador to
France.
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means could afford to represent the
United States in foreign capitals, and
the establishment which Mr. McCor-
mick set up in st. Petersburg attracted
attention even in that then opulent
city Tho esteem in which he was held
cqualled the state in which he lived
and, in return, his sentiments toward
Russia and all that was Russian were
most cordial.
He prevailed upon the Gar to adopt
course Of conservative publicity and
it was duo to his efforts that tho As
sociatcd Press and other news agencies
were admitted to Russia. During the
Russo-Japanese War, his sympathios
wero with Russia and yet he was held
in high regard also in Toxic.
Although he criticised without re-
serve American statesmen who
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ornment of Japan left its interests in
Mr.. McCormick's hands when it rep
resentativcs withdrew from st. Peter
burg and at the end of the war the
Mickado offered him a decoration which
was accepted after Mr.. Mccormick re-
tired from diplomatic life.
In 1904, he succeeded General Hor-
ace Porter as Ambassador France.
The stae in which he lived in Paris
surpassed even that which had aston
ished st. Petersburg. His home was Il
palace on the Qua de Billy, the an
nual rental of which was 100000
francs (S160,O00). III health compelled
him to resign in 1907. In his farewell
address, delivered at dinner in his
honor at the American Club, Mr.. Nc
Cormick urged the establishment of an
international tribunal, similar in many
respects to that contemplated by the
Peace Conference.
Mr.. Mccormick is survived by his
widow, two sons, a brother, William
e. Mccormick, of aBtimore, and a sis
ter, Mrs. Samuel r. levitt, Of this city.