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Cantigny (Wheaton, Ill.)

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Biography

Former estate of Colonel Robert R. McCormick; approximately 50 acres in Wheaton, Ill.; includes Robert E. McCormick Museum.

Found in 1 Collection or Record:

Robert R. McCormick. Cantigny Farm correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: I-162
Abstract Correspondence, clippings and other material concerning Cantigny Farm near Wheaton, Illinois, and the farm on the Fox River west of Yorkville in Kendall County, Illinois (sometimes called the "experimental farm"), both owned by Col. Robert R. McCormick (owner and editor of the Chicago tribune). The correspondence is chiefly between McCormick on the one hand and Homer Neisz, Gail W. Compton or Richard T. Orr on the other. (Neisz, Compton and Orr...
Dates: 1939 - 1954