Editing Cyrus McCormick (section)

==Later life and death==
During the last four years of his life, McCormick became an invalid, after a stroke paralyzed his legs; he was unable to walk during his final two years. He died at home in Chicago on May 13, 1884.<ref>{{cite news |title= Cyrus H. McCormick Dead |url= https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1884/05/14/106278925.pdf | newspaper=The New York Times | date= May 14, 1884 | access-date= 2007-08-21 }}</ref> He was buried in [[Graceland Cemetery]].<ref name="Hutchinson_1935">{{Citation |last=Hutchinson |first=William Thomas |year=1935 |title=Cyrus Hall McCormick: Harvest, 1856-1884 |volume=2 |location=New York |publisher=D. Appleton, The Century Company |url=https://archive.org/details/cyrushallmccormi000264mbp |postscript=.}}</ref> He was survived by his widow, Nettie, who continued his Christian and charitable activities, within the United States and abroad, between 1890 and her death in 1923, donating $8 million (over $160 million in modern equivalents) to hospitals, disaster and relief agencies, churches, youth activities and educational institutions, and becoming the leading benefactress of Presbyterian Church activities in that era.<ref name="liberty-virtue-independence.blogspot.com"/>

Official leadership of the company passed to his eldest son [[Cyrus McCormick Jr.|Cyrus Hall McCormick Jr.]], but his grandson Cyrus McCormick III ran the company. Four years later, the company's labor practices (paying workers $9 per week) led to the [[Haymarket riots]]. Ultimately Cyrus Jr. teamed with J.P. Morgan to create the International Harvester Corporation in 1902. After Cyrus Hall McCormick Jr., [[Harold Fowler McCormick]] ran International Harvester. Various members of the [[McCormick family]] continued involvement with the corporation until [[Brooks McCormick]], who died in 2006.