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CABELL COUNTY WEST VIRGINIA - BIOS: McCLINTOCK, Herbert Dewitt (published 1923)
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Submitted by
Valerie Crook
vfcrook@trellis.net
September 15, 1999
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The History of West Virginia, Old and New
Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc.,
Chicago and New York, Volume III, pg. 217-218
HERBERT DEWITT McCLINTOCK, a popular citizen and
representative business man of the City of Huntington,
has developed an important industrial enterprise in the
manufacturing of lumber and cooperage stock, and con-
ducts the thriving business under the title of the H. D. Me-
Clintock Lumber Company, with offices at 420 Tenth Street.
In addition to being sole proprietor of this business he is
also president of the Tri-State Lumber & Stave Company.
Mr. McClintock was born at Dempseytown, Venango
County, Pennsylvania, on the 16th of June, 1873. His pa-
ternal grandfather, Gen. James R. McClintock, was a suc-
cessful farmer in the vicinity of Dempseytown and served
as a brigadier general in the Pennsylvania State Militia.
He was beyond the age limit for service in the Civil war,
but he recruited and trained companies that went to the
front and made gallant records in defense of the Union.
He married Jerusha Tennant, of New London, Connecticut,
a member of a family that was founded in New England
in the Colonial days. The original American progenitors
of the McClintock family came from Scotland to this coun-
try in the early Colonial period of our national history.
Charles A. McClintock, father of the subject of this re-
view, was born on the old homestead near Dempseytown,
Pennsylvania, December 7, 1846, and died at Huntington,
West Virginia, August 19, 1914. He was reared in his na-
tive county, and there his initial enterprise of independ-
ent order was in connection with farm industry. Later he
engaged in the manufacturing of lumber and barrel staves,
and in 1889 he engaged in this line of manufacturing enter-
prise at Huntington, where he passed the remainder of his
life, a successful business man and highly esteemed citi-
zen. He was a democrat in politics, was affiliated with the
Masonic fraternity and the Independent Order of Odd Fel-
lows, and both he and his wife were zealous members of
the Presbyterian Church. In his native county he married
on October 6, 1870, Miss Adeline Richey, who was the
daughter of William and Angeline Givon Richey. She
was born in the year 1847, and died in the same year as did
her husband, on July 21, 1914. James Pliny, eldest of
their children, is living retired at Los Angeles, California,
he being a veteran of the Spanish-American war; the sub-
ject of this sketch was next in order of birth; William R.,
who likewise served in the Spanish-American war, resides
at Arcola, Mississippi, and is the manager of a plantation
near that place; Miss Emma is a popular teacher in the
public schools of Huntington; Mabel is the wife of C.
Lloyd Ritter, a prominent lumber manufacturer and finan-
cier, and they reside at Huntington; Laura is the wife of
Henry C. Walburn, of this city, he being state agent for
the Bankers Life Insurance Company of Lincoln, Nebraska,
and president of the Huntington Board of Education.
Among the teachers who gave effective instruction to
Herbert D. McClintock in the public schools at Dempsey-
town, Pennsylvania, were Martin Carey, who is now vice
president of the Standard Oil Company, and P. M. Spears,
who is now chief counsel for that great corporation. After
the family removal to Huntington Mr. McClintock here at-
tended the high school until he had partially completed the
work of his senior year. Thereafter he was for somewhat
more than three years a student in Central University at
Richmond, Kentucky, from which he withdrew in his sen-
ior year to become instructor in Greek and military tactics
and science in Jackson College, in Breathitt County, that
state, where he remained one year. Within this period in
that tempestuous county he had for a time active charge
of county affairs, in command of a force of 100 men for
one week, and the aggressive work which he thus accom-
plished resulted in the hanging of Tom Smith, a leader in
the French-Eversole feud.
In 1896 Mr. McClintock returned to Huntington, and
shortly afterward assumed active management of his fa-
ther's lumber mill in Mingo County. In April, 1898, he
entered the nation's service, at the inception of the Span-
ish-American war, and was sent to Chattanooga, Tennessee,
where he was made a sergeant, his honorable discharge hav-
ing been given on the 4th of February, 1899. He had pre-
viously gained wide experience in military affairs. In 1889
he was captain of the Huntington High School Cadets;
while attending Central University he was senior captain
of its Cadet Corps; in 1895 he was promoted to the rank
of major, and his name was placed on the honor roll of
the war department of the United States. On the llth of
November, 1889, he enlisted in the West Virginia National
Guard, in which he served thirteen consecutive years and
was a member of the staff of every colonel that has com-
manded the Second Regiment. In the World war period
he was commanding officer of the Hnntington Militia Be-
serves.
>From the spring of 1899 until 1910 Mr. Clintock [sic] was
actively identified with lumbering operations in the State
of Mississippi, and he then returned to Huntington, where
he has since been successfully engaged in the manufactur-
ing of lumber and cooperage stock, under the title of the
H. D. McClintock Lumber Company.
Mr. McClintock is a democrat, is a member of the Hunt-
ington Chamber of Commerce, the West Side Country Club
and the local lodge of Elks, and he and his wife hold mem-
bership in the Presbyterian Church.
The year 1900 recorded the marriage of Mr. McClintock
and Miss Ada Stewart, who was born in Huntington, and
in their home resides her father, Isaac Foster Stewart, a
retired brick manufacturer, his wife being deceased. Mrs.
McClintock graduated from the Wesleyan Female Institute
at Staunton, Virginia, this being one of the patrician educa-
tional institutions of Virginia. Of the four children born
to Mr. and Mrs. McClintock the first, Mary, died at the
age of nine years; Mabel is, in 1922, a student in the Ens-
low School at Huntington; Grace died in early childhood;
and Charles is attending the Guyandotte school. These
children are the sixth generation of an early settler of
Huntington on the Stewart side.
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