McCOOK, Henry Christopher, American clergyman and entomologist: b. New Lisbon, Ohio, 3 July 1837; d. 1911. He was graduated at Jefferson College (now Washington and Jefferson) in 1859, at the Western The ological Seminary, and in the Civil War he served as first lieutenant and chaplain in the 41st Illinois regiment, 1861-62. In 1862-63 he was minister of a church at Clinton, Ill.; from 1863 to 1870 labored in Saint Louis as a home missionary; and subsequently became pastor of the Tabernacle Presbyterian Church in Phila delphia, a charge he long retained. He served as chaplain of the 2d regiment of Pennsyl vania volunteers in the Spanish-American War, and was chaplain of the Pennsylvania Com mandery of the Loyal Legion,. president of the American Entomological Society, vice-president of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadel phia, and president of the American Presby terian Historical Association. His writings in clude 'The Gospel in Nature" 'The Mound Making Ants of the Alleghanies> (1877) ; 'The Agricultural Ants of Texas> (1879) ; 'Honey Ants and Occident Ants' (1882) ; 'Tenants of an Old Farm) (1884) ; 'The Women Friends of Jesus> (1885) ; Spiders and Their Spinning-Work' (1889-93) ; 'The Latimers, a Scotch-Irish Historic Ro mance of the Western Insurrection) (1898) ; 'Martial Graves of Our Fellow Heroes in Santiago de Cuba) ; Craftsmen: Popular Studies of Ants and Other Insects' (1907) ; 'Ant Communities and how they are Governed' (1909).
McCOOK, Neb., city, county-seat of Red Willow County, on the Republican River, and on the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Rail road, about 230 miles west by south of Lincoln, the capital of the State. It is in a rich agri cultural region. McCook owes much of its prosperity to the fact that it is the headquarters of a railroad division and has railroad shops. The sugar beet, alfalfa, wheat and corn are the principal productions of the surrounding farms. A number of cattle are raised and a large number of livestock from Willow County and vicinity is shipped from McCook. The city has a Carnegie library and a Federal court house and owns the waterworks. Pop. 3,765.
McCORMACK, John, Irish operatic tenor: b. Athlone, 14 June 1884. ' He was educated at Summer Hill College, County Sligo, Ireland, where he received a large share of his vocal training, finishing under Sabatini at Milan. He was awarded first prize at the Dublin Musical Festival in 1904, and in 1907 made his London debut as Turiddu in
came captain in 1892. Since the Civil War he has performed various sea duties, and has served in the department of mathematics and in that of astronomy and navigation at the Naval Academy. He was inspector of ordnance, 1876 81; made a cruise around the world, 1881-85; was assigned to the ordnance department, 1::5 92 ; to the Asiatic station, 1892-94; was captain of the Norfolk navy yard, 1894-97; member of the armor and personnel board, 1897-98; and commandant of the Washington navy yard in 1898. In 1899 he was raised to the rank of rear-admiral, and was retired 26 March 1900.
McCORMICK, Cyrus Hall, American in ventor and manufacturer: b. in Virginia. 1809; d. Chicago, 13 May 1884. He removed from his native State to Cincinnati in 1845, and two years later went to Chicago. In 1831 he in vented an improved reaping-machine, which was patented and further improved, and which brought him great wealth and world-wide fame, with many decorations, medals, etc. He con tributed liberally in 1859 to the establishment of the Presbyterian Theological Seminary of the Northwest, in Chicago, later called McCor mick Seminary. He also endowed a chair in Washington and Lee University, Virginia.
McCORMICK, Joseph Medill, American journalist and legislator: b. Chicago, 16 May 1877. In 1900 he was graduated at Yale University. He became vice-president and publisher of the Chicago Daily Tribune and also served as president of the City Press Associa tion. He opposed William Lorimer and was one of the leaders in the movement to oust the latter from his seat in the United States Senate. In 1912-14 he served as vice-chairman of the Progressive National committee and supported Roosevelt's candidacy for the Presidency at the Chicago Convention of 1912. In the same year Mr. McCormick was member of a committee of his party which went abroad to study 'social legislation. He was twice elected to the gen eral assembly of Illinois and was a member of the 65th Congress, 1917-19, as Congressman at-large from Illinois. In 1918 he was elected to the United States Senate.
McCORMICK, Leander James, American inventor: b. in Virginia, 1819; d. Chicago, 20 Feb. 1900. In early life he worked with his father in manufacturing reaping-machines; removed to Chicago in 1848, and entered into partnership with his brother, Cyrus Hall Mc Cormick (q.v.), and superintended the manu facturing department of their reaping-machine plant until 1879, when the firm was incorporated as the McCormick Harvesting-Machine Com pany. Ten years later he retired from active business. Many of the improvements in the famous McCormick reaping-machine were made by him. In 1871 he gave an observatory with a powerful telescope to the University of Vir ginia.
McCORMICK, Robert Sanderson, Amer ican diplomat, father of Joseph Medi11 Mc Cormick and Robert Rutherford McCormick: b. Rockbridge County, Va., 26 July 1849; d. Chicago, 16 April 1919. He was educated at the University of Virginia and entered the diplomatic service as secretary of the American. legation at London in 1889-92. He was ap pointed first Ambassador to Austria-Hungary in July 1902; was Ambassador to Russia from December 1902 to 1905; and Ambassador to France in 1905-07. He was decorated with the Order of the Rising Sun, Japan, 1907. ing the Russo-Japanese War Mr. McCormick represented the interests of Japan in Russia.
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