McCORMICK 



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McCUTCHEON 



not until after he had completed his college 

 education that he learned he was gifted with a 

 voice of unusual quality. One eventful day he 

 won first prize at a Dublin musical festival, and 

 then he awakened to a realization of the pos- 

 sible career before him. The success of a few 

 concerts enabled 

 him to begin his 

 studies in Italy. 

 Later he appeared 

 in concerts in 

 many Italian 

 cities. Returning 

 to London in 

 1907, he made his 

 debut at Covent 

 Garden, where he 

 scored a triumph 

 with Mme. Tet- JOHN McCfORMACK 



razzini in Rigoletto. He has since appeared in 

 leading roles in many noted operas, and has 

 also won fame in Irish songs. 



McCORMICK, makor'mik, CYRUS HALL 

 (1809-1884), an American whose genius devel- 

 oped the first of the great labor-saving ma- 

 chines which gave cereal growing a remarkable 

 impetus. It has been said that owing to the 

 invention of the 

 reaping machine, 

 which he pro- 

 duced in 1831, 

 the line of civili- 

 zation moved 

 westward thirty 

 miles each year. 

 He was born in 

 Walnut Grove, 

 Va., and the 

 small country 



school was the ' CYRUS H " McCORMICK 

 only formal educational advantage he ever en- 

 joyed. In 1845 he removed to Cincinnati, and 

 two years later to Chicago, where extensive 

 works for building his reapers were established. 

 By that time the machines were being sent to 

 all parts of the world. 



The McCormick factories perfected the reap- 

 ing machine step by step, keeping pace with 

 the active competition which inevitably devel- 

 oped, and in 1902 they were included in the 

 consolidation of leading reaping and binding 

 machine companies which became known as 

 the International Harvester Company. 



Many prizes and medals were awarded this 

 pioneer inventor, and the French Academy of 

 Science made him a member when he was 

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nearly seventy years old. He founded the 

 McCormick Theological Seminary of the Pres- 

 byterian Church in Chicago, endowed a pro- 

 fessorship in Washington and Lee University 

 and gave liberally to charitable and religious 

 institutions. See REAPING MACHINE; INVEN- 

 TION. 



McCUTCHEON, makutch'en, GEORGE BARR 

 (1866- ), a popular American author whose 

 stories, most of them adventurous romances, 

 have been among the most widely read vol- 

 umes of modern American fiction. He comes 

 of a talented family, and was born and spent 

 his boyhood on a farm in Tippecanoe County, 

 Ind.; his brother John is a famed cartoonist 

 (see below). After attending Purdue Univer- 

 sity, he became, in 1889, a reporter on the La- 

 fayette Journal, and four years later was made 

 city editor of the Lafayette Courier. Between 

 the years 1901 and 1913 he published more than 

 twenty books, all of which had an immense 

 sale. Among them are Graustark, Castle Cra- 

 neycrow, Brewster's Millions, Nedra, The Pur- 

 ple Parasol, Cowardice Court, Truxton King, 

 The Rose in the Ring, Mary Midthorne, A 

 Fool and His Money, The Prince of Graustark 

 and Mr. Bingle. He has also contributed a 

 number of short stories to magazines. 



McCUTCHEON, JOHN TINNEY (1870- ), an 

 American newspaper artist and correspondent, 

 famous as a cartoonist for the Chicago Tribune 

 since 1903. Earlier in his career he was em- 

 ployed by the Chicago Record and the Chicago 

 Record-Herald. His work is very popular, and 

 his cartoons have been called "pen-and-ink ser- 

 mons." He takes his topics mainly from the 

 commonplace incidents of life, instead of por- 

 traying solely political issues and unkindly 

 caricaturing public men. He has the rare 

 genius of aiming his cartoons at human foibles 

 and weaknesses. His popular series of Bird 

 Centre cartoons added much to his fame as a 

 caricaturist of human nature. His cartoon, 

 Indian Summer, was so well received that it 

 has been reprinted in the Tribune several times 

 by request. Among his most famous sketches 

 are The Cartoons That Made Prince Henry 

 Famous. Mr. McCutcheon was sent to Europe 

 as war correspondent for the Tribune in 1914 

 and again in 1915. In 1917 he purchased a 

 small island among the Bahamas, named Salt 

 Cay, realizing in this transaction a boyhood 

 dream. Early in the same year he married 

 Miss Evelyn Shaw, of Chicago. He is a 

 brother of George Barr McCutcheon (see 

 above). 



