William Taylor McCormick
A HISTORY OF KENTUCKY AND KENTUCKIANS By E.
POLK JOHNSON 1912 The Lewis Publishing Company
Transcribed by Kim Mohler
William Taylor McCormick was born 30 Nov 1814 near Philadelphia Pennsylvania. He came to Kentucky in 1837, when a young man, and located on a farm in Campbell county, near the town of California. Shortly after attaining his majority he secured a position as mate on a steamboat plying between Cincinnati and New Orleans. He was subsequently promoted to the office of captain and, as said before, followed the life of a steamboat man for over half a century in the navigation incident upon southern trade.
His record was one of the longest known to Ohio and Mississippi river men and he enjoyed a remarkably wide acquaintance. He was a vigorous, energetic man and during all his years upon the river also managed and maintained a farm with success. He retired from navigation business and retired to his country homestead only about a year previous to his death, which occurred September 14, 1890, his years at the time numbering seventy-six. He is buried in the Alexandria Cemetery.
William T. McCormick was three times married. His first union was with Mrs. Elizabeth Dunlap Cross, a native of California, Kentucky, who bore him one child, a daughter named Adelia, who is now the widow of L N Rouse, of Covington, Kentucky. A brother of the first Mrs. McCormick was Milton Dunlap, a soldier in the Mexican war who lost his life in that struggle near Monterey, in Mexico. His second marriage was with Maria Young, also a native of California, and the daughter of a pioneer Kentuckian. Five children, three daughters and two sons, blessed this union, and of the number two survive at the present day, Mr. McCormick and Mrs. J W Baldridge, of Covington, Kentucky. Mrs. Nancy (McCormick) Cormack became the third wife, whom he married 11 Sep 1852 and was the mother of four children, of whom three are living at the present day.
Nancy Bell was born 18 Sep 1824 in Campbell County, the daughter of Jonathan and Jane Carmack. She died 7 Mar 1907 and was buried in the Alexandria Cemetery.
Children of William Taylor McCormick and Nancy Bell Carmack
Charles E McCormick b-Dec 1855 in
Carthage; d-16 June 1930 in Mohave Arizona
John J McCormick b-19 Jan 1857 in Carthage; d-14 Jan 1936 in Carthage; br-Alexandria
Cemetery
Wilford McCormick b-1859 in Carthage
Ella McCormick b-1864 in Carthage