Charles Perry McCormick
American businessman
Charles Perry McCormick (June 9, 1896 – June 16, 1970) was an American businessman and civic leader active in Baltimore, Maryland. At age 36, he became president of McCormick & Company, which he led for 23 years, building it into an international spices and flavorings company. He became known for his progressive Multiple Management system and his civic involvement in the city of Baltimore and the state of Maryland at large.
Biography
Born in Morelia, Mexico in 1896, McCormick was the son of the Baptist missionary Hugh Pendleton McCormick and Anne Pauline (Perry) McCormick. He lived with his family in Mexico, Puerto Rico, Birmingham, Alabama, Paris and back in the States in Baltimore. After regular education in those places, he finished his secondary schooling in the Class of 1915 at The Baltimore City College, an all-boys institution, the nation's third oldest public high school, founded in 1839, and then located in its second building on the site at North Howard and West Centre Streets. He later graduated from The Johns Hopkins University in 1919, when in its first years at its new campus at Homewood in north Baltimore.
After graduation, McCormick started a regular four-year apprenticeship in a factory and the offices of McCormick & Company, his uncle's spice firm. McCormick had already earlier started part-time in the summer of 1912 as a shipping department clerk. After gaining sales experience in the Middle West and the Pacific Coast section, McCormick was appointed head of the import-export department in Baltimore.
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