McCormick, Katherine Medill (d. 1932)
McCormick, Katherine Medill (d. 1932)
American socialite and leading stockholder in the Chicago Tribune . Name variations: Kate Medill; Kate McCormick; Catherine Medill McCormick. Born Katherine Van Etta Medill; died in 1932; daughter of Joseph Medill (1823–1899, proprietor and editor of the Chicago Tribune ); sister of Elinor (Nellie) Medill Patterson (d. 1933, mother of Eleanor Medill "Cissy" Patterson ); married Robert Sanderson McCormick (1849–1919, an American diplomat and ambassador to Austria, Russia, and France); children: Joseph Medill McCormick (1877–1925, a journalist and politician who married Ruth Hanna McCormick ); Robert (Bertie) Rutherford McCormick (1880–1955, editor of the Chicago Tribune , who married Amie Irwin Adams ).
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