Henry McCormick and Annie Criswell

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Husband Henry McCormick ^{1 2 3}

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           Born: 10 Mar 1831 - Harrisburg, Dauphin Co, PA 2
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         Father: James McCormick (1801-1870) 4 5
         Mother: Eliza Buehler (1806-1877) 4 5

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       Marriage: 29 Jan 1866 6

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Wife Annie Criswell ^{1 6}

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         Father: John Vance Criswell (      -      ) 3
         Mother: Hannah Dull (      -      ) 3

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Children

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1 M Henry Buehler McCormick ⁷

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           Born: 12 Jun 1869 7
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         Spouse: Mary Laetitia Boyd (      -      ) 7
           Marr: 12 Jun 1895 7

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2 M Vance Criswell McCormick ⁷

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           Born: 19 Jun 1872 7
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3 F Mary Cameron McCormick ⁷

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           Born: 18 Dec 1873 7
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         Spouse: Did Not Marry

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4 F Isabel McCormick ⁷

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           Born: 12 Jan 1876 7
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           Died: 23 Nov 1876 7
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         Spouse: Did Not Marry

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5 M Hugh McCormick ⁷

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           Born: 1 Mar 1878 7
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           Died: 3 Jun 1879 7
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         Spouse: Did Not Marry

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6 F Anne McCormick ⁷

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           Born: 2 Mar 1879 7
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General Notes: Husband - Henry McCormick

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After an early education received at the public schools, Harrisburg Academy, and Partridge's Military Institute, he entered Yale College, graduating from there in 1852. The study of law, to which he early gave his attention, was not a sufficiently stirring occupation, and he accordingly gave it up, choosing instead the iron business at Reading Furnace. In 1857, he took the management of Paxtang Furnace, and nine years later that of the nail works at Fairview, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, which he conducted successfully for twenty-five years. Long before the time when railroads crossed the continent, he traveled over the great plains and mountain ranges to the Pacific, and returned via the Isthmus.
On the outbreak of the Civil War, he gathered together a company of volunteers, Company F, 25th Regiment P. V., of whom more than half served later as commissioned officers. Having been made colonel of the First Regiment, Pennsylvania Militia, he was later appointed to the command of the First Brigade by Major General John F. Reynolds, and after the Battle of Antietam brought home the whole division, Penna. Militia.
Governor Hartranft appointed him a Commissioner in the new Geological Survey of Pennsylvania, and he was later elected as its treasurer.

He had his education at the Harrisburg Academy, Partridge's Military Institute, and graduated at Yale College in 1852. Upon his return from college he commenced the study of the law with his father. His taste being for a more stirring pursuit, he gave it up and learned the iron business at Reading furnace (later Robesonia), at the first opportunity purchasing an interest in the Henry Clay and Eagle furnaces, near Marietta, Lancaster County. In 1857 Paxtang furnace came under his management, and in 1866 the nail-works at Fairview, in Cumberland County, at the mouth of the Conedoguinit Creek. In 1865, before a railway spanned the continent, he crossed the great plain and mountain range to the Pacific coast, returning by the Isthmus of Panama. In 1877 he visited Europe. Long before these journeys he had shown his devotion to his country. At the opening of the Rebellion he offered his life and services to the cause of patriotism, gathering a company of volunteers, Company F, Lochiel Grays, of the Twenty-fifth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, in the three months' service. When this organization was disbanded he was at once chosen colonel of the First Regiment Pennsylvania militia, under Maj.-Gen. John F. Reynolds, by whom he was assigned to the command of the First Brigade. The object of forming this division being accomplished by the contest at Antietam, it was mustered out of service.
Under the act relative to a new geological survey of Pennsylvania, he was appointed by Governor Hartranft a commissioner, and by his colleagues its treasurer. As a co-trustee of his father's estate he showed tact and judgment, and in the pursuit of all the business in which he was engaged great energy and success. To all benevolent objects he was a most generous giver, without ostentation or publicity. As an evidence of the esteem in which he was held it may be stated that when a candidate for Congress, in 1882, his majority in his native county was one hundred and fifty-nine, while his party was in a minority of nearly fifteen hundred on the vote for other offices.

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Notes: Marriage

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They were married June 29, 1867. [HDC 1883, 584]

1 William Henry Egle, History of the County of Dauphin in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Everts & Peck, 1883), Pg 584.

2 Leander James McCormick, McCormick Family Record and Biography (Chicago, IL: Publisher Unknown, 1896), Pg 171.

3 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of the Juniata Valley (Chambersburg, PA: J. M. Runk & Co., 1897), Pg 490.

4 William Henry Egle, History of the County of Dauphin in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Everts & Peck, 1883), Pg 518, 584.

5 Leander James McCormick, McCormick Family Record and Biography (Chicago, IL: Publisher Unknown, 1896), Pg 170.

6 Leander James McCormick, McCormick Family Record and Biography (Chicago, IL: Publisher Unknown, 1896), Pg 172.

7 Leander James McCormick, McCormick Family Record and Biography (Chicago, IL: Publisher Unknown, 1896), Pg 173.