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Chauncey McCormick
Chauncey McCormick was a son of William G. and Eleanor Brooks McCormick. He was a third generation Chicagoan, grandson of William S. McCormick, one of the founders of the McCormick Reaper Company and he attended school in Chicago, the Groton School and Yale University. He served with the U.S. Army in France during World War I and, after the War, organized a food relief expedition for the starving people of Poland. He was a member of many civic organizations and was president of the Art Institute of Chicago.
This site is sponsored by the Center for Pennsylvania Cultural Studies at the Pennsylvania State University at Harrisburg, in cooperation with the Historical Society of Dauphin County, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Director of the McCormick Family Papers Project at the Center is Professor Michael Barton.Learn more about the Center, and the program that sponsors this project
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