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Show - Robert S. McCormick I Dies of Pneumonia B At Home in Chicago ' CHICAGO. April 16 Robert S. Mc- Cormick. fonurr ambasBadpi to Rus-sia Rus-sia and father of United States Se.n-i Se.n-i ator Mcdill McCormick. died of pneu- monia this afternoon. The widow, the k senator and other relatives were at his bedside when the rnd came. I Robert S. McCormick, educated at I the old Chicago university and the I University of Virginia, berame a col- l lector of books and Napoleonic bio- I graphics and etchings, I In 187S Mr. McCormick was married I to Miss Karherine M dill. daughter of Joseph Mcdill, who founded the Tribune. Tri-bune. i Mr. McCormick served three year? as first secretary of the United Stales legation in London under Mini 1 -Robert T. Lincoln. In 1901 President McKinley appointed appoint-ed him minister to Austria, to succeed Addison C. Harris, and during his srr- I vice the ministry was raised to an Ambassadorship. In 190U President Roosevelt transferred Mr. McCormick 4 lo be ambassador to Russia Mr McCormick aided in gaininj en trance to Russia for the Assoi lated Press, which made possible a lifting of the veil which had hidden events In the Russias from the rest of the world. He also succeeded in influenc-nc influenc-nc the czar's government to honor passports granted by this country to Jews. During the Russo-.Japnce war Mr. McCormick handled the interests of I Japan in Russia In 19Q5 Mr. McCormick was promoted pro-moted to be ambassador to France, ' succeeding General Horace Porter. I The Russian climate had undermined undermin-ed his health and in 1907 his condition I caused him to retire. In an address at a farewell dinner I piven in his honor by the Aim i M an : i lub at the Hotel Palais d'Orsay, Mr. McCormick advocated a world court to adjust boih military and commercial commer-cial differences between nations. In his declining health. Mr McCor- ! mick was unable to withstand pneu- I monia. Al his death the widow, his' rwp sons and a sister, Mrs. Samuel : i; jewfftl of Chicago, were beside him. A brother, William C,. McCormick of Baltimore, also survive. |