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Vor 3 Tagen · Edith Rockefeller McCormick (August 31, 1872 – August 25, 1932) was an American socialite, daughter of Standard Oil co-founder John D. Rockefeller . She and her husband Harold Fowler McCormick were prominent in Chicago society, supporting many causes, including the city’s first opera company.
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Vor 2 Tagen · Together, McCormick and her husband would have five children: John Rockefeller, Fowler, Muriel, Editha, and Mathilde (both John and Editha died young). McCormick became Chicago's premier hostess and most formidable grand dame, throwing opulent soirées at the McCormick mansion at 1000 Lake Shore Drive. She was known as much for the orthodoxy that guided her entertaining as for the headstrong ...
American socialite and opera patron. Born the 4th daughter of the Standard Oil tycoon, John D.Rockefeller, she showed from an early age she was a true original. She played the cello, and learned to speak several languages. At 23, she married Harold Fowler McCormick, heir to the McCormick fortune. Edith spent her money...
Vor 3 Tagen · Eventually, Joyce received large regular sums from the editor Harriet Shaw Weaver, who operated The Egoist, and the psychotherapist Edith Rockefeller McCormick, who lived in Zürich studying under Carl Jung.
Born in 1872, Edith soon developed artistic and intellectual inclinations. She played the cello, learned to speak several languages, and was an avid reader of scholarly works. At 23, she married ...
Vor 6 Tagen · Cyrus McCormick Mansion 1879 Second Empire: Chicago: Demolished in 1954. Edith Rockefeller McCormick Mansion 1883 Romanesque: Solon Spencer Beman: Chicago: Originally built for Nathaniel Jones, Demolished in 1955 for an apartment building. Ferdinand Peck Mansion 1889 Romanesque: William LeBaron Jenney: Chicago: Demolished in 1969 ...
26. Sept. 2012 · Edith Rockefeller was the daughter of Standard Oil tycoon John D Rockefeller, and older sister of John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Her relationship with her father was tempestuous at best, as her extravagance and exuberance were at odds with his own, frugal, abstemious ways. Edith married Harold Fowler McCormick, a son of mechanical reaper inventor ...
