Background
Mccormack, Thomas Joseph was born on May 28, 1865 in Brooklyn. Son of Thomas and Eleanor (Burke) M.
Mccormack, Thomas Joseph was born on May 28, 1865 in Brooklyn. Son of Thomas and Eleanor (Burke) M.
Bachelor of Arts, Princeton, 1884, A.M., 1887. Bachelor of Laws, Chicago Law School, 1890. Admitted to bar but never practiced.
Studied history and philosophy at Leipzig and Tübingen, Germany. Honorary Master of Science, Princeton, 1919. Doctor of Laws, Northwestern University, 1930.
One of editors of the Open Court and Monist, Chicago. Principal La Salle-Peru Tp. High school and director La Salle-Peru-Oglesby Junior College Editor: Series of Philosophical Classics.
Mathematical Series; Memoirs of Gustave Koerner, 2 vols., 1909. Translator: Binet’s Psychic Life of Micro-Organisms, 1889. Binet’s Double Consciousness, 1890.
Mach’s Science of Mechanics, 1893. Mach’s Popular Scientific Lectures, 1895. Weismann’s Germinal Selection, 1896.
Eimer’s Orthogenesis, 1898. La Grange’s Lectures on Elementary Mathematics, 1898. Schubert’s Mathematical Essays and Recreations, 1893.
Topinard’s Science and Faith, 1899. Delitzsch’s Babel and Bible, 1902. Cumont’s Mysteries of Mithra, 1902.
Mach’s Space and Geometry, 1907. Home: Peru, Ill.
Married Nancy Montrose Hume, July 5, 1893 (died 1928).; married second, Evelyn Keith, July 28, 1930. Children: Joseph Hume, Thomas Hume, Jessie Hume, Ned Hume.