John Gordon McCormick, Richland Parish, Louisiana
Contributed by Jan Craven.




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S ource: The History of Louisiana by Henry Chambers, vol 2 p.315.


John Gordon McCormick is a Louisiana business man who has made his
own way since early boyhood and has achieved a substantial position
as a merchant and planter in Richland Parish.

He was born in Jefferson County, Mississippi, August 12, 1870, son of
Dougal and Kathleen (Gordon) McCormick, both of Scotch ancestry.  His
parents lived out their lives in Mississippi, where his father died in
1882 and his mother in 1887. Dougal McCormick was sheriff of Jefferson
County during the Civil War times.   John G. McCormick has a brother,
Hugh, engaged in farming near Mangham.

John G. McCormick attended school in Jefferson County and lived for some
years with his uncle, Judge Gordon.  At the age of fourteen at Wesson,
Mississippi, he worked as a spindle boy in cotton mills, and in 1888,
when a youth of eighteen, came to Louisiana and at Alto in Richland
Parish became clerk for Capt. J. W. Guill.   Four years later he entered
the firm of Humble & Hardesty at Alton and two years later became a
member of the mercantile firm of Hardesty & McCormick.   He was in business
there five years, when he moved to Mangham and reorganized under the firm
name of the Mangham Mercantile Company.   He was active in that business
giving particular attention to the firm's planting interests until he
retired in 1921.  since that year he has concentrated his energies on 
farming and planting, and has extensive interests in Richland Parish.

Mr. McCormick married Miss Laura hardesty, daughter of Samuel R. Hardesty,
of Kentucky.  They have one daughter, Kathleen.   Mr. McCormick is a 
Methodist and his wife, a Baptist, and he is affiliated with the Royal
Arch Chapter of Masons, the Woodmen of the World and Knights of
Pythisa at Rayville.