Business & Finance: Marshall Field

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Curiously enough, both Mr. Simpson and Mr. McKinlay were born in Scotland in 1874, Mr. Simpson at Glasgow, Mr. McKinlay some 20 miles away, at Greenock. But Scot McKinlay did not meet Scot Simpson until, in 1891, the latter came to work as an office boy for Founder Field in the then small Chicago store, where the other had already been working for three years. Since 1917 Scot McKinlay has followed close on the heels of his brother Scotsman: he was made second vice president when Mr. Simpson was made first vice president; he was made first vice president when Mr. Simpson was made president (1923). Scot McKinlay, true to tradition, likes to play golf. He lives in the southwestern part of Chicago, keeps remarkably young-looking for a man who is no longer young in years, has a married son, a married daughter. Scot Simpson lives not south but north of Chicago, in the fashionable and rich suburb of Glencoe where he has an estate on which his favorite diversion, un-traditionally, is tennis. He is by far the largest individual stockholder in Marshall Field & Co.