Item 56: Photograph of A[ndrew] H[amilton]. McClintock and associates of the Westmoreland Club, [ca. 1900].

Item — Box: 1, Folder: 56

Staff Only

Photograph of A[ndrew] H[amilton]. McClintock and associates of the Westmoreland Club, [ca. 1900]

Dates

Created: [ca. 1900].

Disclaimer for Name and Subject Authorities

Some of the name and subject authority tags have been assigned by educated guessing and estimation of persons and subjects by region, age, profession, and familial relationships. They have been thoroughly researched by using primary and secondary sources available digitally, and named in each description, or in some cases linked directly to the person tag.

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

1 items

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Additional Description

Type of Material:

Photograph

Condition Note:

Good.

Measurements:

Backing: 8 ½ in. x 7 ⅛ in.; Photograph: 4 ½ x 7 ½ in.

Description:

The following item depicts a black-and-white photograph of fourteen men, Andrew Hamilton McClintock and associate club members, sitting on the steps of a grand entryway. The men are attired in three-piece suits, many of them holding a top hat they have likely removed for the photograph. The men are believed to be members of the Westmoreland Club from a similar photograph, members list, and dates in a photograph of the club’s history included on the Westmoreland Club’s website. The Westmoreland Club is a private club celebrating leading members of the arts, business, education, government, and industry, within the valley. Established in 1873, the club has grown to an impressive preservation and celebration of the rich history that shaped the valley, including much of the Connecticut roots and experience in the valley. The men include Andrew Hamilton McClintock, beginning on the left, followed by John B. Reynolds, George Reynolds Bedford, Joseph David Coons, Theodore Frelinghuysen Ryman, Benjamin Reynolds, John M. Crane, E. C. Franck, Henry A. Fuller, Charles D. Foster, Charles E. Rice, Albert Lewis, Abram Hoyt, and H. Harrison Harvey. They are standing before a dark clapboard home with shuttered windows. There is ivy growing along the posts and railings of the porch behind them. There is an accompanying inscription, numbering the men 1-14, under which they inscribe their names below. Andrew Hamilton McClintock was born on December 12, 1852 to Andrew Todd McClintock and Augusta Bordley Cist McClintock. 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. 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. The Westmoreland Club House website has a similar photograph of the members at a meeting at Bear Lake, 1900, which contains many of the figures' names. However, their image is excluding some of those in our item, including McClintock and E. C. Franck

Transcription:

Front: The text is a mix of black marker and pencil

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 9 8 10 [The numbers indicate where the man named below stands]

1 A. H. McClintock 2 J. B. Reynolds 3 G. R. Bedford 4 J Coons 5 J. F. Ryman 6 Benj[amin] Reynolds 7 J. Crane

8 E. C. Franck 9 H. A. Fuller 10 C. D. Foster 11 C. E. Rice 12 Albert Lewis 13 Abe [Abraham] Hoyt 14 H. H. Harvey

c[irca] 1900 Reverse:

A sticker is attached, labeled #3