Husband Duncan McIntosh 1 2
Born: 25 Oct 1852 - Cleveland, Cuyahoga Co, OH 2
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Died: 3 Jul 1914 - near Franklin, Venango Co, PA 3
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Father: William McIntosh ( - ) 2
Mother: Ann Dight ( - ) 2
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Wife Alice Gray 2
AKA: Alice [Unk] 1
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Died: Mar 1915 3
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Father: Benjamin James Gray ( - ) 2
Mother: Charlotte Bailey ( - ) 2
Children
1 F Margaret Ella McIntosh 1
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Spouse: Henry Walter Smith (1884- ) 1
Marr: 8 Apr 1908 - ? Venango Co, PA 1
2 M Franklin Gray McIntosh 2
AKA: Franklin G. Mackintosh
Born: 30 Sep 1875 - Oil City, Venango Co, PA 2
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Spouse: Mary Echols ( - ) 4
Marr: 1897 - ? Venango Co, PA 4
Spouse: Jean Myler ( - ) 4
Marr: 30 Sep 1908 4
General Notes: Husband - Duncan McIntosh
As a young man he received his first business experience in the office of John D. Rockefeller. Having attracted the attention of the future world's richest man when he joined the latter's Bible class, as many of the young men of the city were doing at that time, Duncan McIntosh became a member of the office force of the man who afterwards became the founder of the world's greatest enterprise, when that force could be counted on the fingers of one hand. As the great consolidation of oil refineries began to take shape the young man, Duncan, was sent to the Cleveland plant to learn the mysteries of the refining of petroleum, and in 1874, when only twenty-two years of age, he was sent to Oil City, Pennsylvania, then a typical oil town in the pioneer oil region of western Pennsylvania, to take charge of the recently acquired Imperial Refinery and Barrel Works. This was possibly the largest of the Standard Oil plants at that date, but as time went on and other plants were acquired, a policy of consolidation commenced to take place, and it was decided to enlarge the works at Franklin, Pennsylvania, at the expense of the Oil City plant. Accordingly in the autumn of 1884, Duncan McIntosh moved to Franklin and became secretary and treasurer of the Eclipse Lubricating Oil Works.
At that time this was not much of a plant, but under the management of Duncan McIntosh it soon grew to be the largest lubricating oil works in the world, with branches at Erie, Pennsylvania, and Olean, New York. At the time of the retirement of Mr. McIntosh, in 1912, the Eclipse Works was making every product obtainable from crude petroleum and had an area of more than a mile in length and three-quarters of a mile in width. Every building in the plant had been built under the direct supervision of Mr. McIntosh, and many of the most successful processes had been developed by him, he being recognized throughout the entire industry as one of the greatest authorities on the manufacture of lubricating oils. For many years and until the dissolution of the Standard Oil Trust and the segregation of its subsidiaries, Mr. McIntosh also held the position of secretary of the Galena-Signal Oil Works of Franklin. Mr. McIntosh was a director of the First National Bank, the Public Library, and of a number of local industries. He had no desire for public life and refused to accept a number of political offices that were offered to him. He was an active and valued member of the Franklin Presbyterian Church and was a member of its Board of Trustees. He died at his beautiful suburban estate, Glen May, near Franklin, where during the last ten years of his life he lived the life of a real country esquire, and thus realized the ambition and dreams of his early manhood.