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Records of the office which handled the interests of descendants of Chicago industrialist Cyrus H. McCormick, Sr. The McCormick Estates office dealt with business and legal matters for the family; managed their many income-producing properties; reported on all financial transactions in behalf of the two incompetent children, Mary Virginia and Stanley; did the bookkeeping for a variety of trusts and syndicates set up by the McCormicks; handled securities in the form of stocks and bonds; gave accountings of notes and loans; and frequently rendered aid to family members regarding private matters. After the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company's merger into the International Harvester Company in 1902, the McCormick Estates office took on further responsibilities. Although all manufacturing was taken over by International Harvester, the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company under its own name continued to receive payments for products previously purchased on credit (until 1910) and to administer a pension system for employees (until 1922). McCormick Estates staff served as advisors and accountants for the Company in these interests as well as for individual members of the McCormick family.
The will of Cyrus H. McCormick, Sr. provided that his estate should be treated as an entity for five years after his death in 1884. The estate of the inventor was thus distributed to his heirs on December 31, 1889; and the following year the heirs also purchased the Leander J. McCormick interest in the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company, amounting to one-fourth of the Company's capital stock.
McCormick's widow and children soon created an office to handle their individual and common interests in both his estate and his Company. It was this office that came to be known as McCormick Estates. It handled legal matters for the family; managed their many income-producing properties; reported on all financial transactions in behalf of the two incompetent children, Mary Virginia and Stanley; did the bookkeeping for a variety of trusts and syndicates set up by the McCormicks; reported on investments in other companies and in lands; handled securities in the form of stocks and bonds; gave accountings of notes and loans; and frequently rendered aid to the family members regarding private matters.
By 1902, at the time the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company merged with four other companies to form the International Harvester Company, the McCormick Estates office was well established; following consolidation it took on further responsibilities.
Although the McCormick Works became a division of International Harvester and manufacturing by the McCormick Company ceased in 1902, the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company itself, under its own name, did not go out of existence for many years. As a pioneer in marketing its products on credit, it did not relinquish its “accounts receivable” at the time of consolidation; but an agreement was made that International Harvester would collect these accounts, take out a commission, and send the net amounts on to the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company.
These collections,  and a pension system worked out for former and current employees of the McCormick Company, account for a long period, 1902-1922, during which the Company was “in liquidation.” Lawyers, bookkeepers, and clerks on the staff of McCormick Estates served as advisors and accountants for the Company as well as for individual members of the McCormick family.
The cost of operating the McCormick Estates office, and the time of its personnel, were apportioned among the Company, individual McCormicks, and matters affecting more than one member of the family as a unit. Each contributed its proportionate share. As the family prospered, the personnel and workload of the Estates office increased. For example, by 1916 the staff had grown to 27 persons: an insurance agent, the chief “agent” or overall manager, one purchasing agent, seven in the accounting department, five who handled rentals of properties and repairs needed on the various McCormick residences, three in the stenographic pool, two in sales, three in an operating department, one telephone operator, and three office boys. Because portions of estates left by family members were placed in continuing trusts, a remnant of the McCormick Estates exists even today (1976), although the one lawyer and his assistant devote only a fraction of their time to McCormick interests.
After 1902, distinctions between McCormick Company business and the business of individual members of the family were difficult to perceive, since the one office handled accounts for all. In fact, the McCormicks were the Company. In 1905 Company matters were separated from the McCormick Estates, but office space and several of the staff remained common to both offices. Even letterheads are misleading, because at times letters clearly pertaining only to matters concerning the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company were written on International Harvester Company stationery.
In general, the papers are organized by months, although there are instances where dates do overlap months, and even years. This is more common in the correspondence, where an exchange of letters had been fastened together in the office. These have been left together, and the date of the first, the top letter was used in filing.
It is difficult to separate the personal records of Cyrus H. McCormick, Sr. from the records of his early companies,  as he often used the same volume for both personal and company accounts. In organizing the papers, volumes dealing with the period prior to his death or possibly started by McCormick are filed in Series A, as the Inventor's own papers. They are particularly valuable in that they go far toward completing accounts already in the McCormick Collection, providing records not heretofore known of or available - records concerning reaper prices and sales, notes taken and due, and agency business and locations for the earliest decades of his business.
Materials dating many years after his death are due to continuing bequest funds being distributed from his estate. When settlement of his estate was made in 1889 (one-fifth to his widow and the balance to his five children) his heirs opened an account on the books of the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company under the title, Estates Bequest Fund. This fund was carried for many years, and it was from it that money was taken to finance the purchase of stock certificates as pensions for employees of the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company.
Loose manuscripts in Series B are composed of random letters, and financial reports and correspondence. One communication of note is the draft of a letter, July 21, 1902, from Nettie Fowler McCormick to John D. Rockefeller, Sr. concerning the approaching merger of the McCormick Company with four other manufacturers of agricultural implements.
Volumes dating from 1883 to the time of her death in 1923 contain records of receipts and disbursements, investments, and donations. Those subsequent to her death are concerned with the distribution of her estate, especially the creation of the “Joint Special Account,” a fund set up under the terms of her will for the purpose of continuing donations to organizations, institutions, friends, and relatives to whom she was committed.
The three folders of general correspondence, 1889-1936, in Series C contain a mixture of personal and business letters concerning family matters, investments, loans, donations, decisions regarding stock distributions for the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company (circa 1908-1910), Princeton University, and some minutes and memoranda of meetings with McCormick's brother Harold and their lawyers. Among the most frequent correspondents were Harold; John A. Chapman and Judson F. Stone when each was in charge of the McCormick Estates office; Cyrus Bentley, lawyer; John A. Ryerson, a family friend writing concerning McCormick's sister, Virginia; three of his assistants and secretaries over a period of thirty years, C. S. Stillwell, F. A. Steuert, and F. C. Riley; and his friend, Edith (Mrs. Woodrow) Wilson, 1934-1935.
By far the largest amount of correspondence, 1896-1936, appears in connection with landscaping and remodeling plans at “Walden,” McCormick's country estate at Lake Forest, Illinois. The Massachusetts landscape architect, Warren H. Manning, was on retainer for many years to plan and supervise the layout and planting at “Walden.” There is convincing evidence that Manning, when he retired about 1934, sent his “Walden” correspondence and plans to the McCormick Estates office to be filed with other “Walden” materials. Other manuscripts in Series C deal with the Elizabeth McCormick Memorial Fund, including ten volumes of directors' minutes; a variety of financial reports from the McCormick Estates office, both before and after McCormick's death in 1936; a few accounts concerning “Elm Farm”; and several reports and accounts relating to his first wife's estate and to his sons, Gordon and Cyrus.
The fifty-five volumes of personal diaries, memoranda, and appointment books reveal many of Cyrus H. McCormick, Jr.'s activities between 1916 and 1936; including, for example, entries while he was with the Root Commission in Russia in 1917; and three executive office logs, 1916-1918, kept by or for him in his position as president of the International Harvester Company. Eighteen cashbooks, journals, and ledgers, 1890-1936, created in the office of McCormick Estates document much of his financial situation, both private and business. In addition, several volumes are filed concerning financial matters relating to his first and second wife, Harriet H. McCormick and Alice H. McCormick; his son Gordon; and his son Cyrus III and each of Cyrus's two wives.
In addition to the directors' minutes for the Elizabeth McCormick Memorial Fund, ledgers and cash journals show the Fund's accounts from its inception in 1908 to August of 1961.
Mary Virginia McCormick, who became mentally incompetent at about the age of nineteen, retained ownership of her inheritance from her father, Cyrus H. McCormick, Sr., until her death at the age of eighty. From time to time various members of her family served as conservators or trustees of her estate, but throughout her adulthood the McCormick Estates office managed all financial matters in her behalf. These included original assets; the maintenance of household reports and accounts; the employment of large household staffs; personal expenses; expenses, income, and profits relating to her chiefly Chicago income-producing properties; investments in stocks and bonds; loans; holdings in the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company and the International Harvester Company; and charitable contributions made in her name.
The papers appearing in Series D contain very little general correspondence; but offer a wealth of information concerning Virginia McCormick's care and the growth of her estate. For several decades elaborate homes were maintained for her - ”Oaklands” in Toronto, Canada (sold in 1931); the “Caravels,” a summer residence at Cohasset, Mass.; “Kildare,” a farm near Huntsville, Ala. (disposed of in 1932 by subdivision); and three homes in California, “Riven Rock” at Montecito (rented to her brother, Stanley, about 1907), a little-used town house in Pasadena, and “Quilenda” where she resided almost continuously in her last years.
Summaries, accounts, and reports by the McCormick Estates office document not only the millions of dollars spent to maintain Virginia McCormick; but also the many more millions made in her behalf and left by her at her death in 1941. Papers dating from 1941 to 1952 are concerned with the settlement of this vast estate.
Anita Blaine papers maintained by McCormick Estates are limited in quantity, probably because Mrs. Blaine withdrew most of her interests January 31, 1910 when she established an office in downtown Chicago to handle her own affairs exclusively. The period from 1890 to 1910 contains scattered correspondence; information relating to her inheritance from her father, Cyrus H. McCormick, Sr.; and other financial accounts, chiefly those concerning the care of income-producing properties. The period following 1910 contains a few reports from the Estates office including checks issued to her, and records relating to summer vacation properties she maintained in upper Michigan and at Richland Springs, N.Y.
There is evidence that the McCormick Estates office handled a much larger portion of Harold McCormick's business than it did for any other members of the McCormick family. Many papers concerning the consolidation of the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company with other companies in 1902 seem to have been in Harold's files. These have been processed into the International Harvester Company papers (Series J, boxes 3-4).
Correspondence, 1885, 1895-1935, 1941, is fragmentary, although it does include proposals for the reorganization of divisions, inter-office communications, and correspondence while McCormick was president of International Harvester, 1919-1922; and correspondence, 1931, regarding his restorations at the “Walnut Grove” farm in Virginia. A good example of a millionaire's finances is to be found in ledger sheets (Box 13) covering budgets, assets, liabilities, income, and expenditures, 1918-1931. Annual reports from the McCormick Estates office; accounts relating to his son Fowler; communications between McCormick and his second wife, Polish diva Ganna Walska; and files concerning the Doubleday breach of promise suit make up a large portion of the remaining loose manuscripts.
Volumes of financial records kept for Harold McCormick by the Estates office seem to be relatively complete for the entire period from 1890 to 1941, with one cashbook, May 1935-April 1956, extending well beyond the year of his death due to trust funds left to his heirs. Included in his papers are also financial volumes for his first wife, Edith Rockefeller McCormick; his son Fowler and Fowler's wife, Anne Stillman McCormick; his daughter Matilda's husband, Max Oser; and the Memorial Institute for Infectious Diseases, a charity set up by Harold and Edith as a memorial to their son John.
Letters in the Stanley R. McCormick papers touch on his work as comptroller for the International Harvester Company until his mental breakdown late in 1906, and on his condition thereafter; but correspondence, 1890-1929, is very sketchy. Letters written later than 1906 are filed with various reports from the conservators or trustees or from the Estates office. Loose manuscripts and volumes concerning finances comprise the greater part of his papers. These deal with personal and private expenses; donations, investments, taxes, income and disbursements, rental properties, cash statements, monthly and annual reports from McCormick Estates; communications from his California agent, Dr. N. H. Brush; and monthly reports, 1913-1946, detailing the operation of his home, “Riven Rock” at Montecito, California.
An unusual part of the papers consists of so-called “Diaries,” 1906-1927. These are notebooks of typewritten records kept by the Estates office relative to the handling of Stanley McCormick's estate - receipts and disbursements, minutes of trustee conferences and decisions, and a digest of all financial correspondence. A few records concern his “Uracca Ranch” in Arizona, owned from 1898 to about 1909. Estate information also appears in 1929 when his wife, Katharine, sued for greater control of his funds, and a decade later when the conservators were required by the Illinois Probate Court to make a long summary report, 1929-1939, of their stewardship of his affairs.
This group of papers has been organized as a separate series because so many records and reports involved two or more members of the McCormick family, and thus could not be filed under individual names. A great many real estate properties were held jointly; stocks and other investments were made in the names of more than one McCormick; two, or all three, of the brothers shared ownership of several companies, such as the Belle City Malleable Iron Co. of Racine, Wis., and the Chicago Hardware Company and its successor the North Chicago Iron Company.
Accountants at McCormick Estates took care of rental properties and household expenditures for more than one McCormick but sometimes recorded such information in one volume; bank deposits and withdrawals covered more than one person's account; settlements and agreements often affected two or more; and the Estates office was responsible for various funds, syndicates, and special accounts set up by the McCormicks. For all of these, the office kept detailed records and provided reports.
“Voucher Records” in Series H (Volumes 18-27) illustrate the extent to which financial information relating to one McCormick overlapped that of another. In any one book, a voucher shows not only the amount of the check, the recipient and address, date, and purpose, but also shows on which individual McCormick account the check was drawn. Material in packages 1 and 2 represents the family's thinking on how best to refinance their New York loans with a view to liquidating the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company, 1908-1916.
Of all the material in the McCormick Estates papers, correspondence filed in Series I is greatest in both volume and quality. Prior to consolidation in 1902, letters concern foreign and domestic operations of the McCormick Company, and the Paris Exposition of 1900. Throughout the years immediately preceding and during the merger negotiations in 1902 letters and memoranda among the brothers deal with Company personnel, policies, production, efficiency, dividends, taxes, and advertising.
These maneuvers also account for a digest of letters from Cyrus H. McCormick, Jr. to John D. Rockefeller, Sr., between Nov. 26, 1902 and June 1, 1912 (Box 21, Folder 1). The correspondence in Series I also contains communications with George H. Sullivan and Paul D. Cravath, New York lawyers and trustees for International Harvester funds held by the McCormicks; letters of William C. Keefer, W. S. Krebs, Hiram B. Prentice, G. A. Ranney, and Judson F. Stone, officers in the McCormick Company; and one letter from Jane Addams, Aug. 28, 1899, pleading for a job for a juvenile once employed by the Company.
The McCormicks' early recognition of the need to provide pensions for employees is shown in this series, since it was in the office of McCormick Estates that the plans were worked out. A wealth of information appears here concerning the process by which pension amounts were determined (Box 11-13 and Volumes 10-19); and the system by which employees and former employees were given certificates of purchase or exchange for stock in International Harvester.
In addition to correspondence, finances, agreements, and pension plans (found in both loose manuscripts and volumes), the series contains other materials of special value in any study of the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company; e.g., production and sales of machines by kinds and quantity, 1841-1902 (Box 18 and Folders 4-5); minutes of Board of Directors meetings, 1882-1918 (Boxes 3-4 and Volumes 34-35); and McCormick ownership of stock in the Company (Boxes 20-21 and Volume 36).
Series K deals with the operation of the McCormick Estates office itself - organization of the staff, assignment of workloads, and budgets. In addition to general correspondence of various office personnel, it contains personal files of John A. Chapman and Judson F. Stone (the latter having followed Chapman as chief agent in 1917), including their participation in several companies in which the McCormicks had investments.
As manager of the many McCormick-owned properties this office, located in the Stock Exchange Building from about 1908 on, was responsible for rental accounts, buildings maintenance and employees, property acquisitions, and taxes. In 1933, for instance, it handled six office buildings - Stock Exchange, Reaper Block, Bedford Building, Hobbs, U.S. Express, and Temple Court - in addition to McCormick investments, mercantile buildings, warehouses, subdivisions, vacation properties, and many private matters for members of the McCormick family. The office records of William O. Melcher concerning insurance transactions are among the latest dates appearing in any of the McCormick Estates papers.
Early in the 1970s, when the Stock Exchange Building in Chicago was to be demolished, a room-size vault in the building was discovered to contain many decades of manuscripts and financial volumes generated by the work of the McCormick Estates office. These were acquired by the State Historical Society of Wisconsin in 1974.
Processed by Margaret Hafstad, February 10, 1977.
Scope and Content Note: Working papers re the estate of Cyrus H. McCormick, Sr., including all related financial accounts.
Scope and Content Note: Including securities, bills receivable, loans, expense accounts, cash, inventory, income, and the C. H. and L. J. McCormick account.
Scope and Content Note: Agency records, with remarks on notes taken and due for reapers. Indexed by name.
Scope and Content Note: Notes given by salesmen and others for reaper purchases, listed by name.
Scope and Content Note: Reaper sales, prices, notes taken and due. Arranged by county and state.
Scope and Content Note: Mower sales, to whom, notes taken and due. Bound index inside.
Scope and Content Note: Agency records, with remarks on notes taken and due, and prices. Reaper shipments by number and destination, 1850-1851 (pp. 76-79).
Scope and Content Note: Personal(?) daily records by McCormick re reaper notes due, income, expenses, profit and loss.
Scope and Content Note: Daily disbursements of the Company (?).
Scope and Content Note: Daily transactions by McCormick, including income, disbursements, and personal accounts.
Scope and Content Note: Cash payments with running balance.
Note: See also volume 30.
Scope and Content Note: Property locations, original costs, expenses, taxes, rentals, and sales. Bound index inside.
Note: See also volumes 28 and 29. See Vol. 21 for kinds of accounts.
Scope and Content Note: Summary of financial transactions re operation of McCormick companies and McCormick's personal affairs. Bound index inside.
Note: See Vol. 21 for kinds of accounts.
Scope and Content Note: Summary of financial transactions re the McCormick Harvesting Machine Co., individuals, and McCormick's personal affairs. Bound index inside.
Scope and Content Note: Diary by the U.S. Director of Agriculture at the Paris Exposition, 1878. (Name not shown.) Frequent references to McCormick, who donated money for the U.S. buildings, salaries, and expenses.
Scope and Content Note: Typewritten excerpts from random issues, 1823-1864; illustration of McCormick's reaper in July-Dec. 1851 issue; with reference to McCormick in other excerpts.
Scope and Content Note: Daily expenditures for the estate, with monthly balances.
Scope and Content Note: Receipts and disbursements for the estate, with daily balances.
Scope and Content Note: Receipts and disbursements for the estate.
Scope and Content Note: Transactions grouped by receipts and disbursements, bank balances, real estate, loans, interest, bills receivable, rental records, and accounts re McCormick Harvesting Machine Co., C. H. and L. J. McCormick accounts, and personal loans and gifts. Bound index inside.
Scope and Content Note: Income and disbursements for the estate from capital accounts, properties, and securities.
Scope and Content Note: Record of transactions begun by McCormick and continued thru the liquidation of his estate. Examples of headings: Reaper sales and notes, 1854-1858; individual accounts, 1872-1891; collecting commissions, 1898-1905; properties including Illinois and other states; 1902-1919; McCormick Harvesting Machine Co. expenditures, 1879-1919; C. H. McCormick, 1872-1873; C. H. and L. J. McCormick, 1879-1886; accounts re many of the McCormicks and some Co. officers; and IHC entries after 1902. Indexed. (Vol. 21 is marked “C.H. McCormick and Bro.”, the Co. name only between 1859-1866.).
Scope and Content Note: Daily record of donations from estate funds, amount, and recipient.
Scope and Content Note: Donations grouped by recipients. Bound index inside.
Scope and Content Note: Accounts recorded as cashbook entries, journal, and bills receivable and payable.
Note: Bequest Fund name changed to “McCormick Estate Special Account” Feb. 23, 1917.
Scope and Content Note: Daily cashbook receipts and disbursements, and journal.
Note: Fund financed purchase of IHC stock certificates for employees of the McCormick Harvesting Machine Co. and IHC.
Scope and Content Note: Bills receivable from sales of shares to IHC employees.
Scope and Content Note: Loan and expense accounts, bills receivable, interest, profit and loss.
Note: Volumes 28, 29, and 30 were presented by Mr. and Mrs. Mel Dee Bartelmey in 1976, and added to the McCormick Estates Records.
Scope and Content Note: C. H. McCormick's record of transactions grouped by individuals; receipts and disbursements, stock, cash and bank accounts; reaper notes, 1849-1859; C.H. McCormick and Bro., 1863; real estate and rentals, Importers and Traders Bank accounts; interest; and bills receivable and payable. Bound index inside.
Scope and Content Note: Daily transactions by McCormick including income, disbursements, and personal accounts.
Scope and Content Note: Properties: daily record of rental accounts.
Scope and Content Note: Including correspondence with the IRS to 1924.
Note: Late 1923 period is re Mrs. McCormick's estate.
Scope and Content Note: Daily record of income and all expenditures.
Scope and Content Note: Daily record of gifts and expenditures, chiefly donations to individuals, churches, schools, etc.
Scope and Content Note: Continuation of Vol. 11. After June 1923, accounts are for Mrs. McCormick's estate in the “Joint Special Account”.
Scope and Content Note: Donations record kept by Mrs. McCormick.
Scope and Content Note: Donations record kept for Mrs. McCormick. Bound index inside.
Scope and Content Note: Investments in securities, railroads, and loans.
Scope and Content Note: Daily cash disbursements; donations, daily expenses; interest received; taxes, insurance, store purchases; bills receivable and payable; expenses on properties; stocks and bonds. Bound index inside.
Scope and Content Note: Daily receipts and disbursements, with running balances. Bound index inside.
Scope and Content Note: Same as Vol. 15 except for dates.
Scope and Content Note: Personal property assets at time of appraisal, July, 6, 1923; and distribution of assets, June 29, 1935 (pp. 1-21).
Scope and Content Note: Daily cash receipts (interest and rentals) and disbursements (rental properties).
Scope and Content Note: Accounts for various funds, income, and expenditures. Indexed.
Scope and Content Note: Cash received and disbursed, including Mrs. McCormick's real estate holdings. Source and recipient shown.
Scope and Content Note: Account book for Fowler and Chapman, timber and lumber company, Bay City, Mich., in which Mrs. McCormick's uncle, Eldridge M. Fowler, was a partner.
Scope and Content Note: Estate of Mrs. McCormick: Daily cash receipts by transfer of funds, rentals, or interest; donations; bills receivable and payable; accounting by T. B. Gorton, Anita McC. Blaine, Cyrus H. McCormick, Jr., and Harold F. McCormick (1923-1936); and final transfer from accounts, Mar. 29, 1937.
Note: See also clipping attached.
Note: See also clipping on McCormick Forest, attached.
Scope and Content Note: Daily personal disbursements by McCormick.
Scope and Content Note: Daily receipts (chiefly from rentals) and personal disbursements by McCormick.
Scope and Content Note: Daily receipts and disbursements (business and pleasure) by McCormick.
Scope and Content Note: Distribution of daily receipts and disbursements, grouped by sources and uses.
Scope and Content Note: Daily receipts and disbursements handled by McCormick acting as trustee for: (1) the estates of various members of his wife's family, Nov. 1898-July 1916; (2) his daughter Elizabeth and her estate, Nov. 1898-June 1908; (3) the Elizabeth McCormick Memorial Fund, June 1908-Jan. 1909; and (4) the estate of his wife, Harriet Hammond McCormick, Feb.-Dec. 1922.
Scope and Content Note: Monthly capital income and expenses handled by McCormick acting as trustee for: (1) the estates of various members of his wife's family, July 1898-June 1916; (2) his daughter Elizabeth and her estate, July 1898-Dec. 1908; and (3) the estate of his wife, Harriet Hammond McCormick, Feb.-Dec. 1922.
Scope and Content Note: Monthly summaries of all financial resources and disbursements (business and pleasure). Bound index inside.
Scope and Content Note: Daily record of donations, in chronological order.
Scope and Content Note: Donations entries recorded under recipient, pages 1 and 2; and monthly dollar totals, 1891-1931. Bound index inside.
Scope and Content Note: Daily receipts and disbursements of a trust created by McCormick for payment of donations pledges. (William Jenkins and Judson F. Stone, trustees.) Booklet of pledges attached inside.
Scope and Content Note: Summary accounts of trust shown in Volume 81.
Scope and Content Note: Monthly receipts and disbursements for McCormick's farm near Chicago.
Scope and Content Note: Stocks, bonds, and minor investments in clubs. Indexed.
Scope and Content Note: Fund resources, receipts, and disbursements, including donations. Indexed.
Scope and Content Note: Cashbook - distribution to expenses and charities; journal - summaries of resources and disbursements.
Scope and Content Note: Daily receipts and disbursements in the same, section, grouped as to purpose for disbursement.
Scope and Content Note: Partly securities but chiefly real estate holdings of Mrs. McCormick. Indexed.
Scope and Content Note: Records re securities, income taxes, and business expenses of Mrs. McCormick. Indexed.
Scope and Content Note: Cashbook, 1905-Feb. 23, 1921; journal, 1905-Jan. 17, 1921 re stocks, donations, and business expenses of Mrs. McCormick.
Scope and Content Note: Income trust accounts by Cyrus H. McCormick, Jr., trustee for beneficiaries of Mrs. McCormick's will (Emma M. Hammond, James Y. Hammond, and Edward A. Hammond). Indexed.
Scope and Content Note: Receipts and disbursements re Vol. 95.
Scope and Content Note: Record of receipts and disbursements by Bradley B. Hammond, nephew of Mrs. McCormick.
Scope and Content Note: Resources and expenditures, estate of Mrs. McCormick, Jan. 1924-Sept. 1936; securities records of Mr. McCormick as trustee, concerning stocks and bonds re Mrs. McCormick's trusts.
Scope and Content Note: Daily receipts and disbursements of Mrs. McCormick as residual legatee of her aunt, Elizabeth H. Stickney.
Scope and Content Note: Daily and monthly receipts and disbursements of Mrs. McCormick as her aunt's residual legatee; and estate entries beyond Mrs. McCormick's death, Jan. 17, 1921.
Scope and Content Note: Resources, investments, and expenditures of Mrs. McCormick as her aunt's residual legatee; and estate entries beyond Mrs. McCormick's death, Jan. 17, 1921. Indexed.
Scope and Content Note: Daily receipts and disbursements by Mrs. McCormick; and estate entries beyond her death, Jan. 17, 1921.
Scope and Content Note: Inventory of estate of Elizabeth H. Stickney (d. July 11, 1897), and Mrs. McCormick's share.
Scope and Content Note: Financial accounting of all expenditures by Mrs. McCormick, second wife of Cyrus H. McCormick, Jr.
Scope and Content Note: Distribution of daily receipts and disbursements by Mrs. McCormick.
Scope and Content Note: Distribution of daily personal expenses of Alice H. (McCormick Brown), grouped by purpose for disbursement. (Remarried in 1938.).
Scope and Content Note: Distribution of daily household expenses of Alice H. (McCormick) Brown, grouped by purpose for disbursement.
Scope and Content Note: Accounts re trust, income, and disbursements for McCormick, son of Cyrus H. McCormick, Jr.
Scope and Content Note: Accounts for Gordon McCormick.
Scope and Content Note: Stocks, bonds, and other investments of Mr. and Mrs. Cyrus McCormick, III.
Scope and Content Note: Receipts and disbursements by and for Dorothy L. McCormick, first wife of Cyrus McCormick, III.
Scope and Content Note: Personal account book for Mrs. McCormick.
Scope and Content Note: Distribution of daily disbursements for house and living expenses of Florence Davey McCormick, second wife of Cyrus McCormick, III.
Scope and Content Note: Miscellaneous worksheets.
Note: All volumes in this series were kept by McCormick Estates personnel in behalf of the trustees and conservators for Mary Virginia McCormick. Therefore, many volumes are stamped or titled “Trustees,” but they concern only Miss McCormick, her care, and her estate. Exception: Five diaries of her farm manager at “Kildare” are filed in Box 11.
Scope and Content Note: Daily cash disbursements for personal and living expenses, July 1905-Mar. 1910. Daily cash receipts and disbursements, Apr. 1910-1933.
Scope and Content Note: Bills receivable, 1889, 1898-1923. Bills payable, 1908-1920. Loans, 1893-1914.
Scope and Content Note: Stocks and bonds transactions for M. V. McCormick. Indexed.
Scope and Content Note: Daily record of receipts and disbursements re securities, real estate, investments, taxes, and insurance; incl. accounts re M. V. McCormick's share of the estate of her father, Cyrus H. McCormick, Sr., and stock in the McCormick Harvesting Machine Co.
Scope and Content Note: Yearly summaries of financial accounts for stocks and bonds, bills receivable and payable, real estate transactions, loans, expenses, profit and loss, inventories. Typewritten, 1890-1899; handwritten, 1900-1902.
Scope and Content Note: Record of receipts and disbursements, real estate, investments, taxes, and insurance; incl. accounts re her share of the estate of her father, Cyrus H. McCormick, Sr., and stock in the McCormick Harvesting Machine Co. Bound index inside.
Scope and Content Note: Accounts for all phases of M. V. McCormick's financial affairs from 1923 to her death in 1941, and for her estate, 1941-1949.
Scope and Content Note: Distribution of personal and living expenses grouped as to purpose for disbursements. Indexed.
Scope and Content Note: “Private accounts” - distribution of daily disbursements for M. V. McCormick.
Scope and Content Note: Record of sales of lots and installment payments in “McCormick Subdivision”; incl. the Walker Block Calif. Ave., Rockwell St., W. 22nd, and W. 25th, Chicago.
Scope and Content Note: Distribution of all expenses on buildings owned in whole or in part by M. V. McCormick. Indexed.
Scope and Content Note: Distribution of all expenses on buildings owned in whole or in part by M. V. McCormick.
Scope and Content Note: Daily maintenance and alteration expenditures on M. V. McCormick's properties in Santa Monica and Pasadena, Calif.
Scope and Content Note: Distribution of monthly household expenses by numbered accounts; from the Grace T. Walker reports in loose manuscripts in Boxes 5 to 8.
Scope and Content Note: Distribution of accounts by purpose for disbursements for M. V. McCormick's homes: “Kildare” in Alabama; “Oaklands” in Toronto, Canada; “Caravels” in Massachusetts, and “Riven Rock” in California.
Scope and Content Note: Distribution of monthly household expense accounts, Montecita, Calif.
Scope and Content Note: Labor account for erection of house, and maintenance of house and grounds; general expenses, Montecita, Calif.
Scope and Content Note: Audit report and account record for M. V. McCormick's farm at Huntsville, Ala.
Scope and Content Note: Special report on M. V. McCormick's farm at Huntsville, Ala.
Scope and Content Note: Preliminary engineering report on landslides at M. V. McCormick's Santa Monica, Calif. property.
Scope and Content Note: Geologic report on Santa Monica, Calif. property following landslides, Sept. and Oct. 1932; Potrero Fault.
Scope and Content Note: Geologic study of landslides, Nov. 1932.
Scope and Content Note: Re settlement of M. V. McCormick's estate, and meetings between Mrs. Blaine and lawyers.
Scope and Content Note: Complete accounting, with letter of transmittal dated May 1, 1901, to Anita McCormick Blaine recording the stewardship of Anita's estate from her father, until her 25th birthday, July 4, 1891; submitted by Nettie F. McCormick and Cyrus H. McCormick, Jr., trustees. With inventory.
Scope and Content Note: Distribution of expenses on property and buildings in which Anita McCormick Blaine had a financial interest.
Scope and Content Note: Deposition: Doubleday vs. Doubleday, 1931.
Scope and Content Note: Complete accounting, with letter of transmittal May 1, 1901, to Harold F. McCormick recording the stewardship of Harold's estate from his father until his 25th birthday in May 1897; submitted by Nettie F. McCormick and Cyrus H. McCormick, Jr., trustees. With inventory.
Scope and Content Note: Daily cash receipts and disbursements.
Scope and Content Note: Daily cash receipts and disbursements. Aug. 1904 rent collections start being recorded also.
Scope and Content Note: Daily cash receipts, disbursements, and rent collections.
Scope and Content Note: Daily cash receipts and disbursements. July 1907 ceased to record rent collections.
Note: Cashbook for 1928-Apr. 1935 is missing.
Scope and Content Note: Daily cash receipts and disbursements under two headings: “H.F.McCormick” and”Misc.”.
Scope and Content Note: Distribution of cash receipts and disbursements, grouped according to purpose for disbursements; running long after Harold F. McCormick's death. By the trustees, for his heirs.
Scope and Content Note: Bills receivable, Dec. 1896-Feb. 1923. Bills payable, Apr. 1905-June 1922.
Scope and Content Note: Bonds, 1890-Feb. 1922. Stocks, 1890-1921. Indexed.
Scope and Content Note: Daily record of McCormick's expenditures and gifts.
Scope and Content Note: Daily record of disbursements, grouped as to amounts spent, recipients, and investments. Bound index inside.
Scope and Content Note: Monthly receipts; disbursements chiefly to individuals Owner unidentified. Possibly Harold F. McCormick. Indexed.
Scope and Content Note: Cost and expense accounts for automobiles.
Scope and Content Note: Donations to individuals and organizations. Bound index inside.
Scope and Content Note: Distribution of monthly personal and household expenses, grouped as to purpose.
Scope and Content Note: Record of expenses re the publication in Switzerland of McCormick's book, Via Pacis.
Scope and Content Note: Newspaper clippings re Harold F. McCormick and his family.
Note: Subject headings used as guides for filing McCormick's papers in the McCormick Estates office. (When the papers arrived at the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, any integrity indicated by this index had been destroyed due to several moves and storage. New subject headings as shown in this register were created, with no reference to this index or that in Vol. 21.).
Note: Slightly different from Vol. 20.
Note: Originally called the John McCormick Institute for Infectious Diseases.
Scope and Content Note: Accounts for Edith (Rockefeller) McCormick, first wife of Harold F. McCormick.
Scope and Content Note: Distribution of daily receipts and disbursements of Fowler, son of Harold F. McCormick.
Scope and Content Note: Check stubs by Anne Stillman McCormick, wife of Fowler, showing purposes for expenditures at the McCormick ranch in Arizona Scottsdale area.
Note: Same as Vol. 26.
Note: Same as Vol. 26 and 27.
Scope and Content Note: Bank accounts re the operation of the Arizona ranch and the Phoenix house.
Scope and Content Note: Receipts and disbursements in the “Max Oser Acct. #2”, Apr.-Oct. 1942. Indexed ledger for the account, June 1941-Oct. 1942 on page one, second section.
Scope and Content Note: Reports from McCormick Estates office re estate of the father-in-law of Stanley R. McCormick.
Scope and Content Note: Receipts and disbursements, 1905-1907; Financial estimates, 1907-1909.
Scope and Content Note: A “diary”, as it was called, was kept in loose-leaf book form at the office of McCormick Estates in Chicago, and copies were sent to each of the Trustees for Stanley R. McCormick: i.e. his wife, Katharine, and his two brothers, Cyrus H., Jr. and Harold F.; and also to his estate legal advisor, Cyrus Bentley. This is a complete record, 1906-1927, showing receipts and disbursements of monies, memoranda of conferences held and decisions made, and a digest of all letters written and received concerning Stanley R. McCormick and matters relating to his financial estate.
Scope and Content Note: A complete accounting, with letter of transmittal May 1, 1901, to Stanley R. McCormick, recording the stewardship of Stanley's estate from his father, until Stanley's 25th birthday, Nov. 2, 1899; submitted by Nettie F. McCormick and Cyrus H. McCormick, Jr., trustees. Including an inventory.
Scope and Content Note: Audit of general books and accounts for the year ending Jan. 31, 1909.
Scope and Content Note: Monthly accounts, chiefly re sources of income but also information as to profit and loss, capital, insurance, and transfer of money.
Scope and Content Note: Daily receipts and disbursements - business according to purpose, and personal.
Scope and Content Note: Business expenses paid by McCormick on his European trips.
Scope and Content Note: Personal living and travel expenses (recorded by McCormick?).
Scope and Content Note: McCormick's charges at Messrs Munroe, Paris.
Scope and Content Note: Trial balances, 1902-1922; Closing entries, 1921-Jan. 1922; Profit and loss, 1922-1924; Personal accounts, Jan. 31, 1907-1924.
Scope and Content Note: Temporary cash book, journal and ledger. Indexed.
Scope and Content Note: Cash book of receipts and disbursements, Feb. 1905-Feb. 1929. Journal Feb. 1905-1927.
Scope and Content Note: Personal expenses, grouped as to purpose for disbursements.
Scope and Content Note: Receipts and disbursements by and for McCormick. Indexed.
Scope and Content Note: Monthly disbursements in behalf of McCormick, grouped as to purpose, incl. capital available. Indexed.
Scope and Content Note: Donations by and for McCormick, grouped by recipients. Bound index inside.
Scope and Content Note: Donations by and for McCormick.
Scope and Content Note: Bills receivable, 1893-1918; Bills payable, Oct. 1902-Jan. 1919.
Scope and Content Note: Bonds, 1890-Nov. 1921; Stocks, 1890-Apr. 1922. Indexed.
Scope and Content Note: Distribution of all expenses on McCormick's properties. Index tabs.
Scope and Content Note: Distribution of monthly household expenses, grouped as to purpose for disbursements, at McCormick's estate, Montecito, Calif.
Scope and Content Note: Sales, and profit and loss for production at McCormick's ranch, Cimarron, New Mexico.
Scope and Content Note: Trustee's ledger for operation of “Uracca” ranch, Cimarron, New Mexico.
Scope and Content Note: Petty cash expense book by [George H. Webster?] in managing [“Uracca” ranch?].
Note: Papers include two or more members of the family.
Note: Racine Steel Casting Company included after 1917.
Note: Successor: North Chicago Iron Company.
Scope and Content Note: Notes, financial accounting and settlement, 1904.
Scope and Content Note: Plans “A”, “B”, and “C”: (1) Income and disbursements; (2) Anticipated earnings; (3) Comparisons of plans, and summaries.
Scope and Content Note: Working papers.
Scope and Content Note: Loose ledger sheets showing distribution of daily cash balances and disbursements to and for McCormick family members, their various funds, and special accounts.
Scope and Content Note: Cashbook, receipts, and disbursements, Apr. 1921-May 1929; Journal, purchase accounts, Jan. 1927-Apr. 1929; Ledger, income account, Apr. 1921-May 1929, all relating to various McCormicks.
Scope and Content Note: Rental accounts for Fifth Ave. & Quincy St (Sheppard Bldg.), and Adams St. & Fifth Ave. in Chicago.
Scope and Content Note: Expense accounts for Fifth Ave. & Quincy St. (Sheppard Bldg.) and Adams St. & Fifth Ave.
Scope and Content Note: Blue prints of size and location of McCormick-owned properties, in alphabetical order by descriptive name. Often the ownership is shown.
Scope and Content Note: Tenants occupying properties owned by Mary Virginia McCormick, Anita McCormick Blaine, Stanley R. McCormick, Eldridge M. Fowler, or the McCormick Harvesting Machine Co.
Scope and Content Note: Agency, expiration date, and cost.
Scope and Content Note: Daily receipts and disbursements of the “McCormick Estates Special Account” re properties inherited by Cyrus H., Jr., Anita, and Harold from their mother, Nettie Fowler McCormick.
Scope and Content Note: Assessed valuation, July 6, 1923, receipts, disbursements, profit or loss, and sale or transfer of properties inherited by Cyrus H. Jr., Anita, and Harold from their mother, Nettie Fowler McCormick.
Scope and Content Note: Stocks and bonds bought and traded by family members.
Scope and Content Note: Payrolls, taxes, and water charges for McCormick properties.
Scope and Content Note: Payrolls for employees working in McCormick rental buildings and Chicago homes, vacation cottages, and foreign houses. Taxes and water (1920-1921 are loose sheets).
Scope and Content Note: Payrolls for employees (I-M) in McCormick rental buildings and homes, showing period of employment, where, amount of compensation, and to which owner's account the payment was charged; taxes and water.
Scope and Content Note: Accounts kept by McCormick Estates office for Stanley R. McCormick, including entries for personal expenses. Feb. 2, 1903-Apr. 18, 1907; Harriet H. McCormick, Feb. 3, 1903-Feb. 1, 1912; and Edith Rockefeller McCormick, Feb. 4, 1903-Feb. 8, 1905.
Scope and Content Note: Record of monies given from a McCormick fund called the “Family Gift Syndicate”, chiefly to relatives in need.
Scope and Content Note: Accounts re settlement with Kohlsaat, Jan.-Mar. 1906; and ground rent on the Fort Dearborn building in Chicago, Feb. 1906-Apr. 1908.
Scope and Content Note: Receipts and disbursements re the H. H. Kohlsaat settlement and ground rent on the Fort Dearborn building in Chicago.
Scope and Content Note: Vouchers for checks showing date, amount, payee and address, purpose, and which McCormick account was the payer. Alphabetical, A-C only.
Scope and Content Note: Vouchers for checks showing date, amount, payee and address, purpose, and which McCormick account was payer. Alphabetical, A-Z.
Scope and Content Note: Vouchers for checks showing date, amount, payee and address, purpose, and which McCormick account was payer. Alphabetical, A-Pouly.
Scope and Content Note: Bank deposits in behalf of various members of the McCormick family, their trusteeships, and other funds.
Scope and Content Note: Record of ground rent and interest on the McCormick-owned Fort Dearborn building, Chicago.
Scope and Content Note: “Modern Methods in an Old Industry”, Belle City Malleable Iron Company.
Scope and Content Note: Preliminary report, June 30, 1904; report March 31, 1905.
Scope and Content Note: Including the “Steele Plan”, Dec. 1903-1904.
Scope and Content Note: Recapitulation, 1902, 1904, and 1905.
Scope and Content Note: Tables showing owners, amounts, distribution, 1904-1911.
Scope and Content Note: (1) Reaper notes and sales made, 1873-1879; interest; expense; commissions. (2) Accounts affecting: C. H. McCormick & Bro; McCormick Harvesting Machine Co.; and Cyrus H. McCormick, Sr. and L. J. McCormick and their estates. Indexed.
Scope and Content Note: Daily disbursements by the Company.
Scope and Content Note: Reaper notes and daily income.
Scope and Content Note: Assets of two McCormick companies predating the McCormick Harvesting Machine Co., but which were in liquidation many years: C. H. McCormick & Bro.; and C. H. and L. J. McCormick.
Scope and Content Note: Containing (1) Accounts in settlement of invoices, and other adjustments between the McCormick Harvesting Machine Co., and the McCormick Division of IHC. (2) Stock investments in International Harvester. (3) Collection costs to IHC in behalf of the former McCormick Company for the McCormick Harvesting Machine Co.'s accounts receivable. (4) Syndicate Gift and Pension Fund stock purchases in behalf of Company employees. (5) McCormick Harvesting Machine Co. dividends and interest to McCormick family members.
Scope and Content Note: Various McCormick Company accounts; e.g., cash, collections, expenses, pensions, stock investments in IHC, and bills receivable. Indexed.
Scope and Content Note: Daily receipts and disbursements re all facets of McCormick Company business.
Scope and Content Note: Daily Company disbursements, and general expenses.
Scope and Content Note: Cashbook, May 11, 1910-1922; Journal, July 19, 1912-1922; Ledger, individual accounts, May 11, 1910-1922; Memorandum dated Aug. 25, 1924; Cyrus H. McCormick, Jr. and Harold F. McCormick, trustees.
Scope and Content Note: Original calculations re type of work, time and length of service, salary, and pension fund applicable; “Class” and “Group” divisions created.
Scope and Content Note: Records according to type of work, time and length of service, salary, and pension fund applicable; “Class B” and “Groups”; Agents and collectors, names and addresses.
Scope and Content Note: Records for agents as well as employees, according to type of work, time and length of service, salary, and pension fund applicable; All “Classes” and “Groups”.
Scope and Content Note: Stock allotments, certificates issued, and pension accounts; “Class A” and “Group I”.
Scope and Content Note: Stock certificates issued to McCormick Harvesting Machine Co. employees.
Scope and Content Note: Stock certificates issued to Company employees; Interest, dividends, purchases, loan accounts, and bills receivable begin on p. 240; All “Classes” and “Groups”. Indexed.
Scope and Content Note: International Harvester Company stock certificates purchased by the McCormick Company for employee pensions; statements of other amounts disbursed in cash in lieu of certificates, 1904; “Class A” and “Group I”.
Scope and Content Note: Monthly pension payments to McCormick Harvesting Machine Co. employees.
Scope and Content Note: Donor and expense accounts for employee recipients of stock certificates in the Company pension plan.
Scope and Content Note: Donor accounts, pensions, salaries; stock certificates purchased and redeemed; and employee pension benefits. Indexed.
“International Harvester Co. of America Special Account”, showing daily disbursements for that account and “general expenses” of the McCormick Harvesting Machine Co.
Scope and Content Note: List of all papers signed officially in the name of the McCormick Harvesting Machine Co. - by which officer or employee.
Scope and Content Note: McCormick Company letters, chiefly from John V. A. Hasbrook, treasurer. Indexed.
Scope and Content Note: Letters from John R. Hoagland, sec., to Cyrus H. McCormick, Jr., re Company business, with some personal correspondence re McCormick's personal affairs. Indexed.
Scope and Content Note: Re the estate of Cyrus H. McCormick, Sr., for the 1912 investigation of early transactions to determine whether an adjustment in equity in the Company should be made.
Scope and Content Note: Study requested by Cyrus H. McCormick, Jr., and Harold F. McCormick to analyze the formation of the McCormick Harvesting Machine Co., purchase of Leander J. McCormick's shares, and rights of each member of the McCormick family.
Scope and Content Note: Stockholders of the McCormick Co.; shares.
Scope and Content Note: Daily record of donations from the Company to individuals, agencies, and institutions.
Scope and Content Note: Deposits in “Special Account”.
Scope and Content Note: Loose-leaf volume of typewritten copy.
Scope and Content Note: Loose-leaf volume of typewritten copy. A variation of the first part of Vol. 34 above.
Physical Description: Volume of typewritten copy.
Scope and Content Note: With agreements and decisions made when the Company was organized in 1879, minutes of meetings thereafter, and by-laws.
Scope and Content Note: McCormick Company monthly accounts, p. 1-136, Oct. 1879-Dec. 1890; McCormick Company annual accounts, p. 272-276, Oct. 1879-July 1883; C. H. McCormick (Sr.) private accounts, p. 142-263, Oct. 1879-Nov. 1889.
Reports of Bates Expanded Steel Corp.
Note: Copies sent to Estates office.
Scope and Content Note: Random notes (circa 1908); and 9 receipt books, Nov. 1905-May 1906, not numbered and labeled as volumes.
Scope and Content Note: Letters from John A. Chapman, 1907-1916, and Judson F. Stone, 1916-1922, each as head of the McCormick Estates office. Indexed.
Scope and Content Note: Accounts for John A. Chapman and Judson F. Stone - daily cashbook and monthly journal.
Scope and Content Note: Estates office bank deposit record.
Scope and Content Note: McCormick Estates operating account and payroll information.
Scope and Content Note: Daily receipts and disbursements for personal and property insurance for the McCormicks.
Scope and Content Note: Insurance transactions for members of the McCormick family.
Scope and Content Note: Daily insurance transactions for members of the McCormick family, McCormick Estates, personnel, and others.
Scope and Content Note: William O. Melcher's (?) record of daily insurance transactions for members of the McCormick family, McCormick Estates personnel, and others.
Scope and Content Note: William O. Melcher's personal insurance accounts as agent for other companies (?), as well as for the McCormicks. Indexed.
Scope and Content Note: William 0. Melcher's personal insurance accounts as agent for other companies (?), as well as for the McCormicks.
Scope and Content Note: William 0. Melcher's (and his successor's?) insurance records; including entries relating to McCormick Estates matters, 1928-1962.
This arrangement ceased about 1910, when International Harvester paid the McCormick Company more than $300,000 in settlement of unpaid notes, and took over those still to be collected.
For companies see printed Guide to the McCormick Collection, page 2.
How and why these particular volumes came to be in the McCormick Estates storage vault in the Stock Exchange Building is not clear. Mrs. Lucile Kellar, long-time curator of the McCormick Collection, believes that they were once with the McCormick Historical Association collections, and at some time in the 1920s or 1930s were moved to the Estates offices to relieve crowding at the Association rooms.

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