Edgar Hammond McCormick, Rapides Parish Louisiana
Submitted by: Suzanne Shoemaker

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Source: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northwest Louisiana
The Southern Publishing Company, Chicago & Nashville,  1890

EDGAR HAMMOND MCCORMICK, editor and proprietor of Town Talk of Alexandria,
La., was born near St. Louis, Mo., October 6, 1856, to Augustus G. and Jane
E. (Hammond) McCormick, the former of whom was born in Ohio and became an
editor by calling.  He was a son of John McCormick, a native of
Pennsylvania.  The early history of the McCormick family in America dates
back prior to the Revolutionary War.  The male members of the family were
noted for their large stature, hardy constitutions and longevity.  Jane E.
(Hammond) McCormick was a daughter of Joseph K. Hammond, a Pennsylvanian
and a resident of Mauch Chunk, where he was actively engaged in the lumber
business.  Edgar H. McCormick spent his youth and early manhood in St.
Louis, and at an early day adopted the printing business as his calling
through life, graduating from the case in the office of Barnes and Beynon,
of that city, after which he worked as a compositor for several years in
St. Louis, and was also proprietor of a printing office there for two
years.  He remained in that city until 1882, at which time he came to
Alexandria and started the "Town Talk," which is a breezy, spicy and
interesting journal, the editorials especially commanding universal
attention.  He is vice dictator of Alexandria Lodge No. 410, of the K. of
H., and is looked upon as one of the most enterprising citizens of Rapides
Parish.  He was married in New Orleans in May, 1879, to Mrs. Sophie Carnal.