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[[File:Edith%20Rockefeller%20and%20Harold%20Fowler%20McCormick%2C%201895.jpg|right|]]]]'''Born: '''1872

'''Died: '''1932

'''Married:''' Harold Fowler McCormick

'''Children: '''John Rockefeller McCormick, Editha McCormick, Harold Fowler McCormick Jr, Muriel McCormick, Mathilde McCormick

Edith Rockefeller was the youngest daughter of John D., Sr., and Laura Spelman Rockefeller. (William Rockefeller (1841-1922) who owned [[Bay%20Pond|Bay Pond]] was her father's younger brother.) 

As a young single woman, ''''''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_Rockefeller_McCormick|Edith Rockefeller]] spent some time in Saranac Lake for her health in either 1894 or 1895. According to ''Titan: the life of ''''John D. Rockefeller, Sr''. by Ron Chernow (pages 414-415), in 1893 she and her sister had gone to Philadelphia for a rest cure at the Hospital for Orthopedic and Nervous Diseases, run by [[S.%20Weir%20Mitchell|S. Weir Mitchell]]. Edith "required an extended follow-up rest in a cottage at Saranac Lake in upstate New York."