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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McCormack_%28tenor%29
"In 1917, McCormack became a naturalised citizen of the United States. In June 1918, he donated $11,458 towards the USA's world war effort. By then, his career was a huge financial success, earning millions in his lifetime from record sales and appearances."
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The children are presumably Cyril and Gwen, as mentioned in Wikipedia entry.
From www.mccormacksociety.co.uk/history.html/Bwhite.html -- Cyril Count McCormack and his sister Gwen McCormack-Pyke. His wife is Lily Foley McCormack.

NYT of September 16, 1917 query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9406E2DC103AE433A... reports that he was Treasurer of the Musicians Unit, formed as a unit of the American Red Cross as an umbrella organization for benefit concerts, etc.

"The legacy of two Irish tenors to Connecticut: John McCormack and Peter Dolan" -- digitalcommons.sacredheart.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?articl... suggests a likely location for this batch of McCormack photos. The article suggests that in 1917, he and Lily bought Rocklea in Noroton (a section of Darien), CT. There is also mention of a farm that he called Lilydale and a 40-foot boat Macushla. However, I'm not sure that the boat here would be as long as 40 feet.

I'm channeling pennylrichardsca (now at ipernity) by adding tags to these McCormack photos based on the research of swanq on these photos as well as the earlier McCormack photos swanq has referenced.

swanq, The New York Times reported the sale of Lilidale on February 26, 1922. I don’t yet know if that’s what’s shown in this LOC photograph, although I would think it likely. “John McCormack, the well-known tenor, sold the estate known as Lillydale [sic] Farm, at Noroton, Conn., consisting of 163 acres of farm and woodland, to the Highland Farm Company of Darien, Conn. who, in turn, has leased it to the Ox Ridge Hunt Club for a long terms of years.” – The New York Times (This information is also included in the reference swanq provided above: digitalcommons.sacredheart.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?articl... ) The Ox Ridge Hunt Club exists to this day, and the link is to a “history page” referencing John McCormack. (albeit they misspell the name as McCormick – pleasing neither the McCormacks' or the McCormicks'  ;)

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Thanks swanq: We will add more details when we update the description.

John McCormack (1884-1945), popular Irish tenor; wife is the former Lily Foley: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McCormack

Full name John Francis McCormack. Lily Foley McCormack was herself a singer and, like her husband, a Feis Ceoil gold medalist. The couple were married on July 2, 1906. She wrote a biography of her husband titled "I hear You Calling Me." John McCormack's 1918 autobiography, "John McCormack: His Own Life Story" is available for download from Google Books (includes many photos.) Many of McCormack's early recordings can be streamed or downloaded at the Internet Archive. Here is the web site of The John McCormack Society, with much more information about McCormack and his career, and more photos.

A companion Bain/LOC photo of the McCormacks (with nanny) is dated 5/6/13:

Hi, Didn't his wife write a book about him shortly after he died? My Great Aunt joined the Ziegfeld Follies just to see him. No luck. She gave me music lessons using 'I Hear You Calling Me' as my first song. We were both first suprano's. My father also liked his voice, as do I. I still collect CD's by him and sheet music. He wasn't just good, he was GREAT. Once at the library I got a book on him. I believe it was by his wife. Was he a tenor or a first tenor? God Bless, Kathy Donohue

The "50 Great Voices" series by National Public Radio (NPR) includes McCormack, www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=128538000. "McCormack biographer Gordon T. Ledbetter says McCormack was the greatest musician among singers, with his voice peaking from 1910 to 1920. He sang from the heart and the head, both spontaneously and cerebrally, and could sing anything, from opera to German lieder to Irish folk songs." A digital version of Lily McCormack's biography "I Hear You Calling Me" is at the Hathi Trust, catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/007836331 -- Helena (LOC)