CHAPTER X 



CYRUS H. McCORMICK AS A MAN 



CYRUS H. McCORMICK was a great 

 commercial Thor. He was six feet tall, 

 weighed two hundred pounds, and had the 

 massive shoulders of a wrestler. His body was 

 well proportioned, with small hands and feet. 

 His hair, even in old age, was very dark and 

 waving. His bearing was erect, his manner 

 often imperious, and his general appearance 

 that of a man built on large lines and for 

 large affairs. 



Men of lesser caliber regarded him with fear, 

 not for any definite reason, but because, as 

 Seneca has said " In him that has power, all 

 men consider not what he has done, but what 

 he may do." He was so strong, so dominating, 

 so ready to crash through obstacles by sheer bulk 

 of will-power, that smaller men could never quite 

 subdue a feeling of alarm while they were in 

 his presence. He was impatient of small talk 

 and small criticisms and small objections. He 



