Series II: The McClintock Family, 1841 - 1958
Series
Dates
- 1841 - 1958
Access:
All series and subseries within this collection are open for research, with the exception of a few files within the Academia series that are restricted. The Academia series contains financial and sensitive institutional records from Wilkes College, and financial report records from Princeton University that will remain restricted for 80 years upon creation.
Extent
From the Collection: 17 Cubic Feet
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
Series II: McClintock Family, 1803-1958
Series I: McClintock Family, 1803-1958 is arranged into five further subseries: Subseries I: Correspondence, 1803-1958, Subseries II: Photographs, 1863-1943, Subseries III: Deeds, 1805-1922, Subseries IV: Newspaper clippings: 1940s-1958, Subseries V: Publications, 1865-1881. Each of these subseries is arranged chronologically by creation date and contains a broad range of the family’s correspondence, photographs, documentation of deed sales and transfers, publications, and newspaper articles spanning the early-nineteenth century into the mid-twentieth century.
Many of the items in the collection concern four generations of the McClintock family during this period, specifically Andrew Todd McClintock,1810-1892, Andrew Hamilton McClintock, 1852-1919, and the creator of this collection, Gilbert Stuart McClintock, 1886-1959.
The McClintocks were a prominent family in Wilkes-Barre, PA as far back as the late eighteenth century. Record of their first generation begins in 1795, when Andrew Todd McClintock’s father, Samuel McClintock, ca. 1776-1812, emigrated to Northumberland county, Pennsylvania, from Donegal, Ireland. In 1806, Samuel married H[annah Todd] McClintock, 1787-1865, the daughter of Colonel Andrew Todd, a noted militia figure in the region. Though not a lot is known about this earliest generation by Samuel, the collection shows his material holdings (1.4 Item 5:“An Inventory of the Private Property of Samuel McClintock, (de[c]eas[e]d) taken this, 1812 Aug[us]t 28.” [removed to legal size box #1]) by way of an estate inventory following his death in 1812. Their son, Andrew Todd, would go on to build up their familial presence in the Wyoming Valley by way of business and law. He studied at Kenyon College in Ohio, later being admitted to the bar in Luzerne County in 1839, where he built a prominent professional career in the valley during his life. He also pursued many professional connections, rising to a director role for the Wyoming National Bank and a presidential seat on the Hollenback Cemetery Association. Princeton college conferred a degree of LL. D. in 1870 to McClintock.
At the time of his death in 1892, McClintock was one of the oldest members in the Luzerne Bar, where he continued to maintain the interests of many corporate entities until the time of his passing. This professional legacy was only continued and bolstered by the generations to follow, as we see with Andrew Hamilton. After graduating from the College of New Jersey, Princeton, Hamilton began studying law under his father and J. V. Darling. In 1876, Hamilton was admitted to the Luzerne Bar. He played a hand in many provincial roles in the valley, such as a director position of the Miner’s Saving Bank of Wilkes-Barre, as well as a librarian and treasurer dual role at the Osterhout Free Library. Andrew Hamilton and his wife, Eleanor LaPorte Welles McClintock, 1848-1910, have two sons, Andrew Todd McClintock, 1885-1923 and Gilbert Stuart McClintock, who both go on to continue their family’s professional and political interests in the valley. Gilbert Stuart McClintock studied both his bachelor’s and his law degree at the Lawrenceville School in New Jersey. With what many of his contemporaries dubbed a man with “one foot in the 19th century and another in the 20th,” Gilbert McClintock rose to prominence in the Wilkes-Barre region for his various professional ties in companies such as the Glen Alden Coal Company and the Wilkes University Board of Trustees in 1938, earning the nickname “Mr. Wilkes-Barre.” His style of leadership has been described as “pragmatic” and as “idealistic and theoretical”. As can be seen in the many collections he compiled, history and art played a prominent role in Gilbert’s life, as he worked to collect and curate a dynamic and rare collection we see in his donations to the college. Thus, we see how one generation's investment in their family name and influence on the valley is an inherited history and trade.
Other people included within this Series who have familial connections and relationships to the McClintocks include, on Andrew Todd’s maternal side, John Todd, 1779-1862, and on his paternal side, James McClintock, abt. 1790 - aft. 1860. Sarah Anne Hollenback Cist Butler, 1789-1851, Matthias Hollenback, 1752-1829, J[ohn] Hollenback, Jacob Cist, 1782-1825, Augusta Cist McClintock, 1817-1895, Charles Cist, 1792-1868, Chester Pierce Butler, 1798-1850, Lord Butler, 1798-1850, John Lord Butler, 1796-1858, and George H. Butler, are related to the McClintocks through marriage.
Andrew Todd’s marriage to Augusta Bordley Cist is an important factor for a portion of the collection, for their union connects the McClintock line to three other prominent families in the valley, the Hollenbacks, the Cists, and the Butlers, by way of her mother, Sarah Anne Hollenback Cist Butler, 1789-1851, daughter of Matthias Hollenback, widow of Jacob Cist, and wife to Chester Pierce Butler in her second marriage. There are a great deal of materials that would only have been collected by way of her inclusion in the family, such as deeds of Butler men or correspondence between the Cist brothers, alongside her own correspondence.
Other names of importance that appear in the Series but do not have a familiar connection to the McClintocks include Benj[ami]n Tilghman, Dennis Barnum, Henry L. Southard, S[ameuel] J[ones]. Tilden, Jay Gould, Charles Devens, Henry Foster Sewall, Mr. Kochler, Ray Chapman Andrews, Arthur Reader, Joseph Kohler, and Charles Gély.
Topics mentioned within this series include professional character, religion, law, familial issues, marriage, divorce, civil rights, the Civil War, architecture, land investments, historical societies, art curation, art collection, donation and support of studies at the American Museum of Natural History, politics and printmaking.
An important note to mention regarding this subseries is that there are materials within Series I that provide insight into the provenance of other series within the Gilbert Stuart McClintock Special Collection; for example, there are financial receipts of art that he bought that can be found in Series XIV; Art and Prints, 1700-1969. This documentation may provide insight into the provenance of the entire collection as there is a lack of documentation as to how Gilbert Stuart McClintock and the McClintock family collected and preserved these incredibly rare and unique American and international manuscripts, maps, arts and prints, bookplates, and photographs over the centuries. The collection was initially thought to have been collected by his family over the generations and may have actually been purchases made by later McClintock generations and therefore the materials represented were intentionally curated. These can be seen in collections that relate specifically to the Wyoming Valley (with the collecting of manuscripts that deal with Wilkes-Barre and the conflict surrounding the Susquehanna Claim), to Wilkes College (with the collecting of John Wilkes manuscripts, prints, and ephemera), and to Northeastern Pennsylvania by way of paintings, engravings, photographs, and other artwork that depict valley views of this region.
Additionally, there are many photographs that provide a glimpse into the different family homes that the McClintocks owned in Bear Creek and Wilkes-Barre.
The family tree of Gilbert Stuart McClintock offers an understanding of how the various creators of these items are related. Many of the items in the collection have been created by people in the second, third, and fourth branches of the family tree, excepting the inclusion of Lord Butler from the first generation, who also appears. They appear predominantly in the first subseries, Subseries I: Correspondence.
These secondary family trees indicate the immediate family members from each of the major creators in the collection.
Many of the items in the collection concern four generations of the McClintock family during this period, specifically Andrew Todd McClintock,1810-1892, Andrew Hamilton McClintock, 1852-1919, and the creator of this collection, Gilbert Stuart McClintock, 1886-1959.
The McClintocks were a prominent family in Wilkes-Barre, PA as far back as the late eighteenth century. Record of their first generation begins in 1795, when Andrew Todd McClintock’s father, Samuel McClintock, ca. 1776-1812, emigrated to Northumberland county, Pennsylvania, from Donegal, Ireland. In 1806, Samuel married H[annah Todd] McClintock, 1787-1865, the daughter of Colonel Andrew Todd, a noted militia figure in the region. Though not a lot is known about this earliest generation by Samuel, the collection shows his material holdings (1.4 Item 5:“An Inventory of the Private Property of Samuel McClintock, (de[c]eas[e]d) taken this, 1812 Aug[us]t 28.” [removed to legal size box #1]) by way of an estate inventory following his death in 1812. Their son, Andrew Todd, would go on to build up their familial presence in the Wyoming Valley by way of business and law. He studied at Kenyon College in Ohio, later being admitted to the bar in Luzerne County in 1839, where he built a prominent professional career in the valley during his life. He also pursued many professional connections, rising to a director role for the Wyoming National Bank and a presidential seat on the Hollenback Cemetery Association. Princeton college conferred a degree of LL. D. in 1870 to McClintock.
At the time of his death in 1892, McClintock was one of the oldest members in the Luzerne Bar, where he continued to maintain the interests of many corporate entities until the time of his passing. This professional legacy was only continued and bolstered by the generations to follow, as we see with Andrew Hamilton. After graduating from the College of New Jersey, Princeton, Hamilton began studying law under his father and J. V. Darling. In 1876, Hamilton was admitted to the Luzerne Bar. He played a hand in many provincial roles in the valley, such as a director position of the Miner’s Saving Bank of Wilkes-Barre, as well as a librarian and treasurer dual role at the Osterhout Free Library. Andrew Hamilton and his wife, Eleanor LaPorte Welles McClintock, 1848-1910, have two sons, Andrew Todd McClintock, 1885-1923 and Gilbert Stuart McClintock, who both go on to continue their family’s professional and political interests in the valley. Gilbert Stuart McClintock studied both his bachelor’s and his law degree at the Lawrenceville School in New Jersey. With what many of his contemporaries dubbed a man with “one foot in the 19th century and another in the 20th,” Gilbert McClintock rose to prominence in the Wilkes-Barre region for his various professional ties in companies such as the Glen Alden Coal Company and the Wilkes University Board of Trustees in 1938, earning the nickname “Mr. Wilkes-Barre.” His style of leadership has been described as “pragmatic” and as “idealistic and theoretical”. As can be seen in the many collections he compiled, history and art played a prominent role in Gilbert’s life, as he worked to collect and curate a dynamic and rare collection we see in his donations to the college. Thus, we see how one generation's investment in their family name and influence on the valley is an inherited history and trade.
Other people included within this Series who have familial connections and relationships to the McClintocks include, on Andrew Todd’s maternal side, John Todd, 1779-1862, and on his paternal side, James McClintock, abt. 1790 - aft. 1860. Sarah Anne Hollenback Cist Butler, 1789-1851, Matthias Hollenback, 1752-1829, J[ohn] Hollenback, Jacob Cist, 1782-1825, Augusta Cist McClintock, 1817-1895, Charles Cist, 1792-1868, Chester Pierce Butler, 1798-1850, Lord Butler, 1798-1850, John Lord Butler, 1796-1858, and George H. Butler, are related to the McClintocks through marriage.
Andrew Todd’s marriage to Augusta Bordley Cist is an important factor for a portion of the collection, for their union connects the McClintock line to three other prominent families in the valley, the Hollenbacks, the Cists, and the Butlers, by way of her mother, Sarah Anne Hollenback Cist Butler, 1789-1851, daughter of Matthias Hollenback, widow of Jacob Cist, and wife to Chester Pierce Butler in her second marriage. There are a great deal of materials that would only have been collected by way of her inclusion in the family, such as deeds of Butler men or correspondence between the Cist brothers, alongside her own correspondence.
Other names of importance that appear in the Series but do not have a familiar connection to the McClintocks include Benj[ami]n Tilghman, Dennis Barnum, Henry L. Southard, S[ameuel] J[ones]. Tilden, Jay Gould, Charles Devens, Henry Foster Sewall, Mr. Kochler, Ray Chapman Andrews, Arthur Reader, Joseph Kohler, and Charles Gély.
Topics mentioned within this series include professional character, religion, law, familial issues, marriage, divorce, civil rights, the Civil War, architecture, land investments, historical societies, art curation, art collection, donation and support of studies at the American Museum of Natural History, politics and printmaking.
An important note to mention regarding this subseries is that there are materials within Series I that provide insight into the provenance of other series within the Gilbert Stuart McClintock Special Collection; for example, there are financial receipts of art that he bought that can be found in Series XIV; Art and Prints, 1700-1969. This documentation may provide insight into the provenance of the entire collection as there is a lack of documentation as to how Gilbert Stuart McClintock and the McClintock family collected and preserved these incredibly rare and unique American and international manuscripts, maps, arts and prints, bookplates, and photographs over the centuries. The collection was initially thought to have been collected by his family over the generations and may have actually been purchases made by later McClintock generations and therefore the materials represented were intentionally curated. These can be seen in collections that relate specifically to the Wyoming Valley (with the collecting of manuscripts that deal with Wilkes-Barre and the conflict surrounding the Susquehanna Claim), to Wilkes College (with the collecting of John Wilkes manuscripts, prints, and ephemera), and to Northeastern Pennsylvania by way of paintings, engravings, photographs, and other artwork that depict valley views of this region.
Additionally, there are many photographs that provide a glimpse into the different family homes that the McClintocks owned in Bear Creek and Wilkes-Barre.
The family tree of Gilbert Stuart McClintock offers an understanding of how the various creators of these items are related. Many of the items in the collection have been created by people in the second, third, and fourth branches of the family tree, excepting the inclusion of Lord Butler from the first generation, who also appears. They appear predominantly in the first subseries, Subseries I: Correspondence.
These secondary family trees indicate the immediate family members from each of the major creators in the collection.
Processed by:
Jessica Van Orden, Graduate Student, in Fall 2024, edited and supervised by Suzanna Calev, Wilkes University Archivist.
Repository Details
Part of the Wilkes University Archives Repository
Contact:
84 W South St.
Wilkes-Barre PA 18701 US
570-408-2000
570-408-7823 (Fax)
ask.archives@wilkes.edu
84 W South St.
Wilkes-Barre PA 18701 US
570-408-2000
570-408-7823 (Fax)
ask.archives@wilkes.edu