(1854-12 May 1933), woollen mill proprietor. (Rory McCormick, Roderick J. McCormick, Rory Long John) Born: probably at his parents’ farm, on Lot 24 in the 3rd Concession of Lochiel Township, GC. Parents: John R. McCormick (1823-1902) and his first wife Maggie MacPhee. As a young man, he worked in the lumber camps of Michigan and Wisconsin. Some remarkable stories from his experiences of the wild lumbering days in those states are preserved in The McCormicks of Glengarry. In 1891, at Menomonee, Wisc., he married Annie Amanda Geelan (1863-1953), a teacher and widow. A few years later he returned to Canada, bringing with him his wife and young daughter. He farmed six miles east of Alexandria. In 1910 he bought 110 acres in Lot 35 of the 2nd Concession of Lochiel Township, near Alexandria. This property included the woollen mill founded by Col. Alexander Chisholm and operated by the Tomb family, and of which Rory McCormick now became the operator. It was at his home on this property that he died. (four children) He was the father of Frank McCormick, who was the next operator of the mill, and of the artist Stuart McCormick, and was the father-in-law of John Gelineau’s son Duncan. Roman Catholic.

Glengarry News 19 May 1933 * McCormicks: various refs. (see index), includes history of the mill, portrait * buys carding machinery from Charles McNaughton, GN 4 Feb. 1921