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Mccormick, Robert Laird

lumber manufacturer, banker, legislator, was born Oct. 29, 1847, in Clinton county, Pa.

He received his education at the Saunders institute of West Philadelphia, Pa. is a successful banker and lumber manufacturer of Hayward, Wis.; and is interested in a dozen lumber corporations with an aggregate capital of five million dollars. During 1881-82 he served with distinction as a senator in the Minnesota state legislature, and was the grand commander of the Minnesota Knights Templar in 1880-81. In 1892 he was colonel of the Wisconsin division Sons of Veterans; and since 1892 has been vice-president of the State Historical society of Wisconsin.