When Leander McCormick in 1890 ceased to be vice president of the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company, his successor was Eldridge Fowler. This must have been a deep satisfaction to his sister. It was a climaxing point in the new relation between the two that had developed after the death of Mr. McCormick. Brother and sister had always been devoted and in sympathetic touch throughout the varied experiences each had suffered. But there had been something less than congeniality between Mr. McCormick and Mr. Fowler, and the brother had not come freely to his sister's home. There had been business dealings: Mrs. McCormick had early enlisted her husband's interest in her brother, when he was not yet on a firm basis financially, and there is a tradition that she induced Mr. McCormick to lend Eldridge the money that he had been about to spend on a set of emeralds for his young wife. However that may be, Mr. McCormick did offer employment at times and backed business ventures of Eldridge Fowler's with a loan. But though the amenities were observed, the imperious temperament of the master of 135 Rush Street was not agreeable to Eldridge Fowler — whether to endure or to observe.
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After his death brother and sister were able to enter more easily into each other's lives, and Eldridge Fowler was soon able to give Mrs. McCormick and her son Cyrus helpful advice in their problems, personal and business. By the late eighties he had moved from Detroit to Chicago in order to help more. (Source)
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