Talk:Robert McCormick (Virginia inventor)

Middle name?
I think there is a confusion between people with similar names. The family patriarch who lived from 1780 to 1846 in Virginia did not use a middle name (as usual in the 18th century) acording to my sources. "Hall" was his wife's maiden name. He had a son Robert Hall McCormick who died as a teenager, 1810-1826. There was also another Robert Hall who was the son of Leander (grandson of the patriarch) who lived 1847–1917. Perhaps another descendant I think had that name who lived 1915-1997. Might want to clarify at least, or move to something like Robert McCormick (Virginia)? Robert McCormick is already a disambig page. W Nowicki (talk) 23:13, 28 December 2010 (UTC)

Hall
As mentioned in the above thread, I also think there is confusion and the result is that the photo is tagged as Robert HALL when, in fact, it is the patriarch of the family, Robert "no middle name" Hall. I hope to investigate further at the Newberry library and will advise. ```Buster Seven   Talk  15:21, 15 March 2013 (UTC)

Regarding the Legacy section- there is no way Robert Jr (1780-1846) has sons still surviving.

Perhaps the legacy section might be clearer if it were written like this: "In 2002, a variety of wheat was named after Robert McCormick and his sons, for "inventing,. . . ."Writethisway (talk) 23:38, 23 June 2020 (UTC)