From Searching for Isum: "I recall vividly as a ten year old going with my father to visit Grandpa McCormick at his home on Mechanic Street in Macomb, Illinois. After eating some of his wonderful Concord grapes off the vine, Grandpa wanted to show us the family bible that was 'brought over from Ireland during the potato famine.' His story was that Grandpa's grandfather Isum was an Irishman, one of 'five Irish brothers, ' who came to America escaping the potato famine. I got the impression that Grandpa was offering the bible to my father for safe keeping. I, as an audacious - or obnoxious -...