Byron Lowell McCormick
Kentucky Post, Tuesday, 7 January 1930, page 1
Byron L McCormick, new mayor of Dayton, presided over his first meeting of Dayton Council Monday night. McCormick was sworn into office before the meeting opened by Oscar Forester, outgoing city attorney and presented with a new gavel. Besides the five recommendations to Council, Mayor McCormick promised to conduct the city's business to the best of his ability and asked that politics be forgotten and the city business be conducted to the best interests of the taxpayers.
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Kentucky Post, Thursday, 20 November 1930, page 2
Through a misunderstanding it was printed in Tuesday's paper that Dayton had moved to aid its jobless by passing a resolution for the immediate purchase of tar, stone and other materials for the repairs of Dayton streets. Mayor Byron McCormick of Dayton denied this. He said the city has purchased tar to repair cracks in the streets, but the city's own employees will do the work.
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Kentucky Post, Tuesday, 2 December 1930, page 3
Formation of a Dayton Welfare and Relief Association was approved by members of Dayton Council at their meeting Monday night. Mayor Byron L McCormick, temporary chairman of the association, gave a report to Council on a meeting held Saturday night. Funds raised by the organization will be used to aid the unemployed and need in Dayton throughout the winter. Mayor McCormick stated another meeting of the relief association will be held Thursday night at Eagles Hall, Dayton.
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Kentucky Post, Tuesday, 21 April 1931, page 3
Mayor Byron McCormick was authorized to confer with the Campbell co Health Board for the placing of guards at four Dayton homes where smallpox exists.
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Kentucky Post, Tuesday, 7 July 1931, page 3
Pointing out that territory lying south and east of Dayton Ky. and extending to Ft Thomas would add thousands of dollars annually in tax revenue, Mayor Byron McCormick urged the annexation of this property at a meeting of members of the Dayton Council Monday night.
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Kentucky Post, Tuesday, 6 October 1931, page 1
Allegations hinting that certain of the city officials and city employees of Dayton Ky. were purchasing "bootleg coal" thrown from railroad cars by thieves and then peddled, brought the Dayton City Council into a turmoil at their meeting Monday night when Ed A Gorman, coal merchant appeared before the body. Irked by Gorman's statements, Mayor Byron McCormick and fellow members demanded Gorman be more explicit.
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Kentucky Post, Tuesday, 5 January 1932, page 1
Reading of a resolution which charged that open gambling and slot machines are flourishing in Dayton and demanded that Mayor L McCormick instruct police to "get busy and stop it" almost precipitated a free for all battle Monday night during the regular meeting of Dayton Council. Mayor McCormick and Councilman Isaac Skelton Hall were the principals in the bitter debate.
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Kentucky Post, Saturday, 27 February 1932, page 1
Services for Mrs. Carmella McCormick, 33, wife of Byron L McCormick, mayor of Dayton, will be held 8:30 am Monday at the Vonderhaar & Stetter funeral home, followed by requiem high mass at 9 am at St Bernard Church, Dayton.
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Kentucky Post, Saturday, 17 December 1932, page 3
Mayor Byron L McCormick, Dayton, issued an urgent appeal Saturday to the residents of Dayton for donations of discarded clothing, shoes and stoves. The cold weather has increased suffering among families of Dayton, and the need for articles is great.
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Kentucky Post, Thursday, 19 January 1933, page 1
Forty-five men enrolled Wednesday night as members of the proposed Dayton Volunteer Fire Department at a mass meeting held under the sponsorship of Mayor McCormick and the Dayton City Council.
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Kentucky Post, Thursday, 10 August 1933, page 1
Fred Mader was the winner Thursday in the race for the Democratic nomination for mayor of Dayton, while William H Thomas annexed the Republican nomination. Thomas easily defeated Byron L McCormick, present mayor of Dayton, polling a vote of 588, against his opponent's 354.
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Kentucky Post, Tuesday, 17 March 1953, page 1
Services will be held at 10:30 am Wednesday at the T P White funeral home, Mt Washington, for Byron McCormick, 64, who had been mayor of Dayton two decades ago. Mr. McCormick died Monday at the Ft Thomas Veterans Hospital, where he had been a patient for three years. Burial will be Evergreen Cemetery.
He leaves no immediate survivors. McCormick served as the first president of the Dayton Volunteer Fire Department 33 years ago.