Talk:Robert Sanderson McCormick

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Medill connection?[edit]

Seems like a major link of the story is missing, his connection to the Joseph Medill family. W Nowicki (talk) 18:06, 18 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Am I missing something?[edit]

"He formed a parternship McCormick & Adams to invest in a grain elevator at St. Louis, Missouri in 1876, but it failed in the aftermath of the panic of 1873.[2]:39" How fortunate that he bought it after it failed, then? I think this should be clarified. Ehusman (talk) 17:49, 5 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Don't use euphemism[edit]

His and his wife's families had plantations in antebellum Virginia, which was a slave society, and they held slaves as laborers. Let's make it plain, not use euphemisms like "estate". Changed both references to "plantations". A slave, Jo Anderson, helped his uncle develop the mechanical reaper.Parkwells (talk) 22:13, 12 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]