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1. Juni 2013 · Villa Turicum, Lake Forest, IL. 50 likes. The lost estate of Edith Rockefeller McCormick; designed by Charles A. Platt in Lake Forest, IL
23. Juli 2021 · Enter Edith Rockefeller McCormick, a daughter of John D. Rockefeller Sr., philanthropist and the founder of Standard Oil. Edith was also the daughter-in-law of mechanical reaper inventor Cyrus Hall McCormick. She was born on Aug. 31, 1872 at her family’s home on Euclid Avenue in Cleveland, Ohio, an area then-known as “Millionaire’s Row.”
4. März 2016 · Edith McCormick was the fourth daughter of John D. Rockefeller, who in 1895 married Henry Fowler McCormick, the son of the mechanical reaper magnate, Cyrus McCormick. She divorced him in 1926 and spent much of her last years in the 41-room mansion on Lake Shore Drive until she died in 1932. She is buried in Graceland Cemetery. The photos above ...
24. Aug. 2020 · Edith Rockefeller McCormick might have been an intellectual lion, as the author argues. But far above that, she was the world's richest woman, a product of her having joined two dynastic fortunes by marriage. She didn't actually make any of her money (her opportunities being limited by sexism) and when she did try to engage in business, all but one venture failed. What she was good at was ...
Although it was commonly referred to as the Mrs. Edith Rockefeller McCormick residence, this house located at 1000 N. Lake Shore Drive was built in 1883 for Nathaniel Jones, a prosperous member of the Board of Trade. He was described as “one of the wealthiest and most successful businessmen in Chicago.” It was later sold to Joseph T. Torrence, a pioneer in the development of belt-line ...
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 ...
Once upon a time, there was a princess named Edith and a prince named Harold. They were married in 1895 and that was the beginning of an unhappy tale. Edith was from the kingdom of Rockefeller, the daughter of oil king John D. Harold sprang from the McCormick empire, his father, Cyrus, had devised a thing called the reaper.
