Where did Cyrus McCormick and his wife and his seven children live?

Answer 1

The McCormick family lived in various places and owned several homes. When Cyrus McCormick first married Nancy "Nettie" Fowler, they lived in Washington, D.C. while Cyrus worked on a controversy regarding the patent of his reaper. They lived in Chicago, Illinois for most of their married years. They also lived in New York, New York.

Their son, Cyrus Hall McCormick, Jr. (1859), was born in Washington, D.C. Their sons, Harold Fowler McCormick (1872), and Stanley Robert McCormick (1874) were born in Chicago. Their daughter, Anita Eugenie McCormick, was born in Manchester, Vermont in 1866. Their daughter, Mary Virginia McCormick (1861) was born in Illinois. Birth places for Robert McCormick (1863) and Alice McCormick (1870) are not listed, but both were buried in Chicago, Illinois at a young age.

One of their homes was the Riven Rock estate near Montecito, California, where their son, Stanley McCormick, was confined for much of his life due to mental illness. They also had a vacation home near Iron River, Wisconsin.

The Great Chicago Fire took place while they were living in New York. The fire destroyed the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company. Nettie convinced Cyrus that they should sell their New York home and return to Chicago to rebuild the company. They moved to a home on the near west side at Fulton and Sheldon (now Loomis) streets. A few months after Stanley was born, the Cyrus McCormick family moved into their new mansion, at Superior and Rush streets in Chicago.