JOHN McCORMICK
               Lake Charles, Calcasieu Parish, LA


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Source: Southwest Louisiana Historical and Biographical by William Henry Perrin
published in 1891; page 179.
Typed by Margaret Rentrop Moore


JOHN McCORMICK, LAKE CHARLES.-John McCormick was born in St. Landry parish,
Louisiana, 1835. He is the son of Michael McCormick and Mary A. Lee. Both
parents are dead; the father having died in 1839, the mother in 186o.
The subject is one of a family of five children, and the only son. He spent his
school days in Opelousas. At the age of fourteen he left school and entered the
office of the St. Landry Whig, where he served three years as an apprentice,
after which he was connected with the same paper for six years. In 1877 he came
to Lake Charles, and here he engaged in a printing office until 1881, when he
founded the Commercial, which he has since conducted.
Mr. McCormick was married, in January, 1860 to Miss Mary C. David, of St. Landry
parish, Louisiana. They are the parents of ten living children, five sons and
five daughters. The eldest son, Charles M., is connected with his
father in the newspaper business.