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...husband, Harold Fowler McCormick, their three living children, and her brother John. They had all come to her after years of an estrangement that was more of her making than theirs. A chief cause of the estrangement was also in devoted attendance?the plump little Swiss named Edwin D. Krenn with whom she had shared her last eleven years. Her brother John did not wait for the end. Itching painfully with an attack of shingles, he rejoined their father, John Davison Rockefeller, in the East. Long estranged too, and querulously jealous of his own health at 93, Father Rockefeller...
...McCormick's obligations which led her into her stringency. They began to arise in 1921 when she and the plumpish little man began doing business. He is Edwin D. Krenn, reputedly 37 years old, a Swiss architect. He and his future patroness met while they were studying at Dr. Jung's clinic of psychology in Zurich in 1913. He was with Mrs. McCormick when she returned to the U. S. in 1921. That year he formed the real estate firm of Krenn & Dato, in which Mrs. McCormick is thought to have invested $13,000,000. Although...
...must often muse over the scenes behind the foreboding Romanesque walls of grey stone when she was Chicago's No. 1 Hostess, serving meals off gold plates, discussing her favorite subjects of art, astrology, numerology, "synthetic psychology." Mrs. McCormick is not left lonely in her adversity. Mr. Krenn is as constant a companion as ever although until Mrs. McCormick recovers her health they will not be seen as of old in the neighborhood cinema, where they sat always in the back row, or at the theatre, chatting in German. Mrs. McCormick's brother, John D. Jr., recently rushed...
Edith Rockefeller-McCormick, mother of the groom, an extraordinary lady who eats from gold plates and indulges a fancy for advanced psychology and a faith in the real estate operations of two friends, Krenn & Dato. From her castle-home on Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, she sent word through her secretary that "she had nothing...
...time wife of Harold Fowler McCormick, lion huntress, psychoanalyst, philanthropist, social arbiter. Her method of using her money was to incorporate herself. In 1923 she organized the Edith Rockefeller McCormick Trust, capitalized with a five-million-dollar contribution from her and $1,500 apiece from Chicago realtors Edwin D. Krenn and Edward A. Dato. Last week the E. R. M. Trust announced a new financing of eleven million dollars in five year 6% gold notes, "unconditionally guaranteed as to payment of principal and interest by Edith Rockefeller McCormick." The notes are secured by Edith Rockefeller McCormick's holdings...