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Updated: 12-13-2019 21:12:09.


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Family
Marriage: Children:

  1. Marshal Hampton McCord: Birth: 19 MAY 1925 in Baltimore (city), Maryland, United States. Death: 13 DEC 1994 in Timonium, Baltimore, Maryland, United States

  2. Eugene Biscoe McCord: Birth: 31 OCT 1927 in Baltimore (city), Maryland, United States. Death: 23 OCT 2019 in Hockessin, New Castle, Delaware, United States

  3. Ann McCord: Birth: 2 AUG 1930 in Baltimore (city), Maryland, United States. Death: 31 JAN 2014 in Hockessin, New Castle, Delaware, United States


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Notes
a. Note:   ampton McCord]. Some of this is legend rather than fact. You will have to sort that out.
 "Marshal Hampton McCord was born November 14, 1895 as a child of the second marriage of his father, Marshal Armstrong McCord, to Sarah Ann McGahan. He had an older half brother, Will, and a half sister, Cornelia (Cora). At the age of 12 his father died and he and his mother were taken in by his uncle William McGahan. Close by or as part of the household was another aunt, Ellen Boone (Mother Boone), and a related girl, Ellen Bell, who was crippled by polio. By the time he was 16 he had graduated from high school, William McGahan had lost his job as a paperhanger, and Marshal was the breadwinner for the family.
 "His initial job was office boy and runner for Howard Schnepfe, accountant. Schnepfe took in the young man as an apprentice, allowed him to use his accounting library at night, and assisted him in getting his CPA.
 "Later Marshal became treasurer for the Davison Chemical Company. In the First World War he was a 90 day wonder at the Naval Academy, becoming an Ensign in the United States Navy, but the war ended before he served aboard ship. In December, 1941 he tried to reenlist in the Navy, but the Navy patted him on the head and told him that he was much more valuable to them running Davison Chemical than serving on active duty. As the war ended, he saw the son of the president of Davison using his father's position to gain operating control of the company. He wrote a white paper to the board of directors objecting to these shenanigans. The board accepted his resignation from the company.
 "His rejection by the Navy in 1941 still rankled him because he had been unable to actively participate in the war, so he joined the Department of Defense as part of the army of occupation of Germany. This led to many years as an economic consultant to the government and the army. His jobs included:
 - Reparations and Restitutions (returning property Germany had stolen from the occupied countries during World War II) - Import/Export Bank (rebuilding Europe) - Restructuring the accounting system of the Turkish government-owned copper mines - Restructuring the accounting system of the Army quartermaster Corps "Throughout his life Marshal McCord had a strong sense of family solidarity, pride in his Scottish heritage, and personal integrity.
 "Perhaps because the McGahans took him and his mother in when he was 12 and they had little extra to give, he felt a strong personal responsibility for other members of the extended family. He supported the McGahans after he graduated from high school. He provided financial support for Ellen Bell when it was needed, although she was a very difficult person. He provided financial assistance to his sister after she was retired by the Presbyterian Board of Missions on a tiny pension (Cora was also a proud person, although rather innocent of economic realities. She was paying $5.00 per week for room and board to a member of the church. Marshal was surreptitiously paying the people another $20.00 per week). When Ann McCord [his daughter] came home a widow with two infant children, he came out of retirement and provided a home for her.
 "The worst, most severe discipline my brother received was when I came home from school with a black eye and Mac didn't have one, too.
 "Marshal McCord believed in the progression of family fortunes. His father was an artisan, he was a professional person, and he hoped that his children would be entrepreneurs. To that effect he offered to invest his life savings in any of his children that would undertake a business. None of us took him up on the offer. I felt that the savings were hardly large enough to support his retirement and certainly did not want to risk them in any harebrained scheme that I might dream up.
 "After retirement Marshal studied Scottish history and concluded that all the good and bad things that had happened to him, his good and bad characteristics, were all a result of his Scottish heritage: stubborn, proud, responsible, thrifty, family solidarity, clan loyalty. That was your grandfather. I feel privileged to have known him."
  From a letter by Eugene Biscoe McCord to William Allen Weech dated October 22, 1992 [the former is the son of Marshal Hampton McCord; the latter, his grandson]
  * * * MEMOIRS OF MY FATHER, MARSHAL HAMPTON McCORD
 "What little is known of my father's early life is passed on by his sister Margaret [Cornelia McCord]. His father [Marshal Armstrong McCord] died when he was 12 and he and his mother [Sarah Ann McGahan], impoverished, went to live with relatives. He was allowed to finish high school at City College in Baltimore. World War I broke out and he was selected to go to the U.S. Naval Academy as a '40 day wonder' and graduated as an Ensign. He prized his Naval Academy sword, which I still have.
 "After World War I he was employed by the Davison Chemical Company. He went to night school and earned a C.P.A. Twenty five years were spent at Davison Chemical Company, where he rose in position to be the company treasurer. He resigned in 1947 at 51 years of age to protest policies put in place by the President's son. Had he stayed a very short time longer, a pension plan that he initiated would have given him a lifetime income. It was a moral decision, much like his father's protest against working on the Sabbath. In 1948 he went to Germany as the head of Reparations and Restitutions. He told us of returning holy objects to Jewish synagogues, aged race horses to France, art objects to museums, and factory parts to Russia from German warehouses. In 1950 he went to Turkey for a year to set up modern accounting systems for the mines. He ended his working career at Edgewood Arsenal in Maryland. He also taught accounting at night school for over 20 years at Johns Hopkins University.
 "I remember my father well. My early memories are that he arose singing and left the house by streetcar for work in downtown Baltimore. He was always home for a formal dinner cooked daily by the maid, Ida, and served on a linen tablecloth. When I was a child, he was The Boss: strict, held in awe, and respected. I did not get to know and really love my father until World War II took my brothers from our home. Then my father and I sailed together and we discussed my studies.
 "Skipper [Marshal Hampton McCord]'s first financial goal was to see that his children received the college degree that he never got. He read, learned, and grew throughout his life. I am awed as I look back, recall, and read what he wrote of family history and economic conditions.
 "When I went to live with my father and mother in 1951 as a widow with two babies, I became more aware of his wisdom, humor and love. He wrote to me and said: "You were my girl first. Come home! I want you and your children here bad!" Once he sat all night long rocking baby Paul [Norris Weech] and holding his hands so that Paul would not scratch his chicken pox. He read and recited stories of Sherlock Holmes and Rudyard Kipling to his grandchildren endlessly. He loved to take the whole crew (seven grandchildren at times) out on a track field and run out their energy. He was the children's Pied Piper.
 "In 1960 he retired, having seen me remarried and in good hands. The small house that he and my mother chose to live in allowed him to walk to the YMCA to swim and to the library for books. He told my mother that he'd never been happier and that there was no other woman that he could have possibly lived with during those years at home. His devotion to and love of Dorothy were always evident.
 "The last four years of his life he was confined to his home due to bladder cancer. He was remained cheerful and interested in me and my children when we visited. I loved him so much. I treasure my memories of his honesty, integrity, humor, and good counsel."
  By Ann McCord Weech - September, 1992
  * * * "In the summer of 1940 Dad [Marshal Hampton McCord, Sr.] bought an eastern shore dead riser, a 29 foot centerboard ketch with 28 and 38 foot masts and 500 pounds ballast in the centerboard. On the maiden voyage in mid-May with experienced skipper John Krantz at the helm, the Ann McCord turned over and partially sank in the Chesapeake Bay off Annapolis. Ann [McCord], age 10, was credited with attracting the rescue boat by standing on the only part of the ketch that was above water and waving a life preserver. The Ann McCord was more boat than we could handle, so it was sold that fall and replaced by a Comet in 1941 and a Lightning in 1942...
 "Our first sailboat was an ordinary canoe with a lateen rig and lee boards. The first summer I turned it over five times learning how to sail. Dad bought the boat and put us in it. We learned to sail by doing.
 "The canoe wasn't that ordinary. It was an 18 foot canvas covered Sponson built by Oldtown. It weighed about 125 pounds. Dad bought it for $25. It had been in a garage for 20 years. The paint on the canvas was old and peeling. We spent the whole winter removing the paint and varnish and repainting. Dad used a blowtorch to get the paint off of the canvas. At ten years of age even I knew that was not a good idea. Come spring the boat was a beauty to behold. The bright work was bright and the hull was a marvelous green. After the boat was in the water the first time the paint all blistered off the canvas and Dad had to pay $35 to get the canoe recanvassed...
 "The Lightening and the Comet were kept on moorings in front of the house. The locations of the moorings were triangulated with wooden arrows nailed to the top of the stumps on the bank. At the end of the season the floats were taken in and the chains were dropped to the bottom to be recovered in the spring with a grapnel. One season the river iced over before we got the moorings ashore. We were afraid that the ice would lift them and carry them away. Dad and I went down to the river to retrieve the moorings. We got into the dinghy with the idea of breaking a path through the ice to the moorings. When we got to the edge of the ice, the ice was too strong to break but we found that it would hold our weight. So, we climbed onto the ice and pulled the dinghy after us with the idea of launching it again in the open water around the moorings.
 "Halfway out to the moorings the ice gave way and we both found ourselves in the water. The ice was too weak to allow climbing back on it from the water. We thrashed around and formed a hole large enough to float the dinghy. We then climbed from the water into the dinghy and from there stepped out onto the ice and proceeded shore ward. We relaunched the dinghy and made it to shore. We went up to the cottage, stripped off the wet clothes, wrapped up in blankets and built a fire in the fireplace. The only time I was cold was during the period it took the fire to get roaring hot. When we got home, my mother [Dorothy Royston Biscoe] took me severely to task. She knew my father didn't have enough sense to avoid such a stunt, but she expected better of me..."
  From a letter by Eugene Biscoe McCord to William Allen Weech, December 1992
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  "I met Mac at this party. That was in July. In September I knew I was going to marry him..."
 "He [my husband Marshal McCoord] was just so wonderful. He was the most wonderful person I ever met. When I read these letters, and I’m reading these letters over that he wrote, I just realize that I don’t think I ever realized half how wonderful he really was, and how much he planned and schemed. He was an awfully poor boy, and he made up his mind that… He didn’t get to college, but he was one of the best educated people that I ever knew. He read and read. He loved historical novels. He loved history. And he was very poor. When his father died, when he was about 12 years old, he and his mother went to live with an aunt and uncle. And he felt when the time came to go to college, Dr. Camel, who was the minister at Faith Church, and who married us, wanted to send Mac to Princeton. And Mac felt that in the first place, he said Dr. Camel couldn’t afford it. Dr Camel did have a wealthy wife but he wanted to send him whether or not, and Mac said he couldn’t accept it. And he also felt that he needed get out to be out earning some money for his, to support his mother. So he didn’t go, but he went to work for Mr. Schnepfle. Mr. Schnepfle urged him to help him to pay school, urged him on to go to school and he got his CPA from Pace. He got his CPA from the state of course. He passed his examination and he got his CPA from the state. And he read a great deal. He read all the time. He was a smart person."
 - From a tape recorded interview with Dorothy Royston Biscoe (Mrs. Marshal Hampton McCord) March 1986
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