Lucas County IA Archives Biographies.....McCormick, Robert 1805 - 1877
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Author: Lewis Publishing Co. (1896)

DR. ROBERT McCORMICK, deceased, came to Chariton, Iowa, in May, 1857, from
Brimfield, Illinois, whither he removed from Carlisle, Pennsylvania. He was born
in the latter place February 5, 1805, and acquired his education in Dickinson
College and at Jefferson Medical College. He began practice as a physician and
surgeon in Sharon, where he continued for fifteen years, doing a good business.
He was married there to Miss Susan Ulp, who died in Sharon in 1847.

   After the death of his wife Dr. McCormick left his home in the Keystone State
and started for the West. He took up his residence in Illinois, locating near
Peoria, in the town of Brimfield, where he engaged in practice for a few years.
He then came to Lucas county, Iowa, and was a resident of Chariton from 1857
until his death, on the 24th of January, 1877. The family consisted of four sons
and three daughters, six of whom attained to years of maturity, namely:
Elizabeth, James Oliver, William Laughlin, Albery Ulp, Margaret and Emily. One
child, Robert, the sixth in order of birth, died in infancy. Elizabeth, and
James died in Chariton; William died in San Francisco, California; Albert was
Captain of Company H, First Iowa Cavalry, served throughout the entire war,
re-enlisted as a veteran and was in the service for nearly five years. In 1893,
on account of failing health, he went to California and died in Los Angeles,
November 20, 1894, leaving a wife and eight children. His father also was in the
hundred-days service, although long past the exemption age. Misses Margaret and
Emily constitute the family in Chariton. They have erected a beautiful home on
Woodlawn avenue, where they live in comfort. Miss Margaret was formerly matron
in the Boys' School, of Davenport, Iowa, having charge of Kemper Hall. This is a
school under the auspices of the Episcopal Church. Miss Emily was reared to
womanhood in Pennsylvania and educated in Poland, Ohio, where she was acquainted
with William McKinley, who also was a student there. She holds membership in the
Presbyterian Church, and both the sisters are talented ladies, deeply interested
in charitable and church work and untiring in all that will benefit the
community. They belong to the Chariton History Club, a literary society in which
they have. held membership for seventeen years. No family in Iowa is more highly
esteemed than the McCormick family.

   Owing to poor health the Doctor did not engage in the active practice of
medicine after coming to this State. He was elected county Judge of Lucas county
in 1865, re-elected in 1867, and for a third term in 1869, thus serving for six
consecutive years with credit to himself and satisfaction to all concerned. He
was the first County Auditor under the law authorizing the existence of that
office, the position of county judge being abandoned. In 1871 he was re-elected
County Auditor, and again in 1873. No man was more familiar with the history of
the county and certainly none stood higher in social and political circles. His
memory is cherished by the older residents of Chariton, and all speak of him as
an upright, honorable citizen,—an official fully competent to discharge the
duties of his exalted positions, and a father whose tender solicitude for the
well-being of his family, so early bereft of a mother's tender care, was the
subject of special mention among his intimate friends. He died as he had
lived,—a consistent and devout Christian.

   The estimable ladies who preside over the McCormick home in Chariton, Misses
Margaret and Emily, occupy a very exalted position, numbering among their
friends the best people of the city. Being liberally educated they naturally
take great interest in the literary societies and in the improvement of their
minds; and in church and Sunday-school work they are ever active and faithful.
Being the only survivors of their family, they inherited a fine property and
feel assured of a pleasant home provided with all the comforts of life, with
leisure to engage in any benevolent or charitable work to which they may feel
inclined.


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A MEMORIAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF IOWA

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"A people that take no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will
never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote
descendants."'—MACAULAY.

"Biography is by nature the must universally profitable, universally pleasant,
of all things."—CARLYLE

"History is only biography on a large scale"—LAMARTINE.

CHICAGO: THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
1896

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