Anita McCormick Blaine
Anita McCormick Blaine | |
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| Born | Anita Eugenie McCormick July 4, 1866 Manchester, Bennington County, Vermont, USA |
| Died | 1954 (aged 87–88) Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, USA |
| Parent(s) | Cyrus Hall McCormick Nancy Fowler McCormick |
| Relatives | See McCormick family |
Anita Eugenie McCormick Blaine (1866-1954) was an American philanthropist and political activist. An heir to the McCormick Reaping Machine Works fortune built by her father, Cyrus McCormick (1809–1884), Blaine funded the launch of Chicago's Francis W. Parker Elementary School, the New World Foundation, the Progressive Party (1948), and the radical New York newspaper, the National Guardian.