James McClintock

JAMES McClintock, farmer and minister, is a native of Ireland, and the third of five children born to Robert and Nancy McClintock, also natives of Ireland. His mother died in 1848, and in 1850 his father emigrated to America, where he died in 1878. James McClintock was brought up to linen making, which he abandoned after coming to this country. In 1855, he married Miss Margaret G., daughter of Simeon and Nancy Avrett. Simeon Avrett was an Illinois pioneer, and is supposed to have shot Joseph Smith.

Mr. and Mrs. McClintock were parents of six children: Robert S. (deceased), William H., James B. (deceased), Sarah E. (deceased), Ida M. and Cecil J. (deceased). Mr. McClintock is a minister of the M.P. Church and was an itinerant for fourteen years. He afterward rented a farm for five years in Iroquois County, Illinois, and removed to his present farm in this township in August, 1870, where he had purchased eighty acres in 1869, since which period he has purchased and inherited 160, making 240 in all--a very good and desirable farm. President Arthur's father and Mr. McClintock were reared within five miles of each other.

Source: Newton Co., IN Bio Newton County, Iroquois Township. From A History of Warren, Benton, Jasper & Newton Counties, 1883.

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