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McCormick was the son of Robert Hall McCormick , who invented the Reaper . He joined his brothers Cyrus and Leander in Chicago to establish a manufacturing company to produce the reaper.

McCormick was the father of Robert Sanderson McCormick (who served as U.S. Ambassador to Austria-Hungary , Russia and France ) and William Grigsby McCormick , and grandfather of U.S. Senator Joseph Medill McCormick , Robert R. McCormick (editor and publisher of the Chicago Tribune ) and William McCormick Blair (founder of William Blair and Co., a Chicago-based investment firm).