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In 1904, Dr. McCormick was invited to become chancellor of the
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university (from
Western University of Pennsylvania) and moving it from Allegheny City (currently Pittsburgh's Northside neighborhood) to its current location in
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American Biography. Vol. VI, pages 613–614. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.
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system, and moving the university to the
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In 1897, Dr. McCormick agreed to become the third president of Coe
College, a struggling Presbyterian-affiliated institution located in
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Jordan, John W. (ed). 1908. A Century and a Half of
Pittsburg and Her People. Vol. III. Pittsburgh: The Lewis Publishing Company.
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Vicary, Elizabeth Zoe. 1999. “McCormick, Samuel Black.” American
National Biography. Vol. 15, page 925. Oxford University Press.
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He was the second child of Rachel (Black) and James Irwin McCormick and was named after his maternal grandfather. His father was a
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and also at the nearby Canonsburg Academy. During this period, Dr. McCormick read the law with his uncle Henry H. McCormick, the
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On September 29, 1882, he married Ida May Steep; they had four children. After a year in Pittsburgh, the couple moved to
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