Item 79: Bookplate, Andrew T[odd]. McClintock, no date

Item — Box: 20, Folder: 79

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Bookplate, Andrew T. McClintock, no date

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Extent

1 items

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Additional Description

Type of Material:

Bookplate

Title:

Andrew T. McClintock

Description:

A bookplate created for Andrew Todd McClintock with the words, “Virtute, Et, Labore” which translates to “Power and work/” The bookplate features a family crest with shells on it. The crest is surrounded by garland and has a knight and a griffin at the top. Bookplate collector and Lawyer Andrew Todd McClintock was born on February 2, 1810 in Northumberland, Pennsylvania. His parents were Hannah Todd and Samuel McClintock. He went to public and was also homeschooled, “overcoming the obstacles and lack of advantages incident to the pursuit of the higher branches of knowledge at the time by a sturdy industry and application which manifested themselves as traits of his young character and as signs of promise for the future,” When he was young, he started going to Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio and was taught by Bishop McIlvaine, and some people he went to school with were popular including Lawyer Edwin M. Stanton, former Supreme Court justice David Davis, and lawyer Rufus King. after he was done with college, he became a law student under James Hephburn, Esquire. Later that year, he relocated to Wilkes-Barre and finished under Chief Justice Woodward, and started his law career in Luzerne County on August 8, 1836. As soon as he started, he began collaborating with Judge Woowdard, who would go on to become a member of the Constitutional Convention in 1837. After that, Woodward became sick and McClintock took over their law firm and their collaboration lasted until 1839 when he was “appointed to the office of District attorney by the attorney general. When it was dissolved in business relations, but the association thus formed served as the basis of a life-long friendship between members.” He didn’t really like his job at the District Attorney’s office, and it didn’t seem to be what he was looking for. He left after a year and started his own practice. It went through Luzerne, Lackawanna, Susquehanna, Wyoming, Bradford, Wayne, and Pike counties. “He became the legal adviser in many private estates, and held the same relations to a majority of the mining corporations and individual coal operators, as well as to the carrying companies, notably the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad Companies, the Delaware and Hudson Canal Company, the Pennsylvania Canal Company, and the Pennsylvania Coal Company.” In 1874, he was on a board to rewrite the state constitution after he was picked by the governor, and given the go-ahead by the legislature, “being associated in the responsibilities of the appointment with ex-Chief Justice Agnew, Judge Williams, of the Supreme Court, Benjamin H. Brewster, Attorney General Dimmick and others.” For several years, he was in charge of the Luzerne County Bible Society, the Wilkes-Barre Hospital, the Hollenback Cemetery Association, the Wyoming Historical Society and Geological Society, the Wilkes-Barre Institute, and the Luzerne Bar Association. He died in 1892.