Detailed Information
Personal details and public facts.
- Profession
- Inventor
- Died
- Oct 10, 1929
- Zodiac
- Taurus
- Born in
- Canada
- About
- Best known as the inventor of mechanical lubrication for steam engines, he also had 57 other U.S. patents to his name. His name, McCoy, is a likely origin of the expression "The real McCoy." The world was reminded of him in May of 2022 when a Google Doodle appeared recalling his birthday.
- Family
- He was first married to Ann Elizabeth Stewart who died four short years after they married. He then married Mary Eleanor Delaney.
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