Edith Rockefeller McCormick
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Edith Rockefeller McCormick (1872–1937) was an American socialite and opera patron. McCormick was the fourth daughter of Standard Oil tycoon John D. Rockefeller (1839–1937) and his wife Laura Celestia "Cettie" Spelman (1839–1915). She married Harold Fowler McCormick, a son of mechanical reaper inventor Cyrus McCormick, in 1895. McCormick and her father had an often stormy relationship, where her extravagance would often conflict with his known frugality.
A famous story of McCormick involves an evening in 1901 during a party at her country retreat in Lake Forest, Illinois. News arrived that McCormick's son, John Rockefeller McCormick, had died of scarlet fever. It was whispered to her at the dinner table where she proceeded to merely nod her head and allowed the party to continue without incident.
Children
- John Rockefeller McCormick (1896–1901)
- Editha McCormick (1897–1898)
- Harold Fowler McCormick, Jr. (1898–1973)
- Muriel McCormick Hubbard (1903–1959)
- Mathilde McCormick Oser (1906–1947)
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