Talk:Robert Sanderson McCormick

Medill connection?
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)

Am I missing something?
"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)

Don't use euphemism
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)