William Grigsby McCormick
| William Grigsby McCormick | |
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About 1896
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| Born |
June 3, 1851 Chicago, Illinois |
| Died | November 29, 1941 (aged 90) |
| Occupation | Businessman |
| Known for | Kappa Sigma Fraternity |
| Parent(s) |
William Sanderson McCormick Mary Ann Grigsby |
William Grigsby McCormick (June 3, 1851 – November 29, 1941) was an American businessman of the influential McCormick family in Chicago, who was a co-founder of Kappa Sigma Fraternity.
William Grigsby McCormick was born June 3, 1851 in Chicago. His father was William Sanderson McCormick (1815–1865) and mother was Mary Ann Grigsby (1828–1878) of the Hickory Hill estate in Virginia. His father managed finances for the family agricultural machinery business which became International Harvester until he died in an insane asylum in 1865. His mother then moved the family back to Baltimore, Maryland near her Virginia family estate. After she was widowed, his mother had sold her share of the family business to his better-known uncle Cyrus McCormick.
McCormick's brother Robert Sanderson McCormick (1849–1919) married the daughter of the founder of the Chicago Tribune. Their son Chauncey Brooks McCormick with their nephew Robert R. McCormick purchased the Hickory Hill estate of Reuben Grigsby in 1929.
He attended the University of Virginia in 1868 and 1869, where he founded the Kappa Sigma Fraternity with four other friends on December 10, 1869. A plaque was later affixed to his 1869 room, which was numbered 46 East Lawn, where the first Kappa Sigma meeting was held.
Mccormick's favorite drink was scotch whiskey. He was a guest at the fraternity house named for the family in 1916. The area is now a complex known as the McCormick Road Residence Area. He died on November 29, 1941 at the family estate known as St. James Farm near Wheaton, Illinois. At the time Kappa Sigma was the fourth largest fraternity in the country.
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