Not long after the company had begun to succeed financially and gain traction, Sturm died from viral hepatitis.

[2] Kit's brother Alexander Agnew McCormick Jr. was a World War I officer and pilot.

[3][4] As a writer and artist, he was known for his two illustrated children's books—The Problem Fox, and From Ambush to Zig-zag—both published before he graduated from Yale; and for his lavish playboy lifestyle.

Alex was a voracious collector: guns, canes, swords, heraldry.Although Sturm preferred to stay indoors, he was an accomplished polo player.

We invited Warren Page of Field & Stream magazine to join us for lunch so we could tell him about the pistol.

He had a beard, wore green suits with all sorts of bells and whistles on them — cuffed sleeves and so on — and he had a marvelous manner.

[8] The couple lived in Sturm's home in Westport, which was situated near his parents' house on property the family owned.