Jack F. McIntire and Elizabeth "Bessie" McAllister

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Husband Jack F. McIntire ¹

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            AKA: Jack F. McIntyre 2
           Born: 6 Sep 1867 - near Vandergrift, Westmoreland Co, PA 3
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         Father: John Edgar McIntire (Abt 1828-Abt 1907) 1
         Mother: Susanna Jack (1829-1903) 1 2

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       Marriage: 24 Dec 1895 or 1897 - ? Venango Co, PA 3

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Wife Elizabeth "Bessie" McAllister ^{2 3}

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            AKA: Margaretta McAllister
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         Father: Col. John B. McAllister (1833-      ) 4 5
         Mother: Margaretta Elizabeth Rice (      -1870) 6

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Children

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1 M Jack F. McIntire, Jr. ⁶

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2 M Ralph W. McIntire ⁶

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3 F Lillian M. McIntire ⁶

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General Notes: Husband - Jack F. McIntire

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His educational advantages were distinctly meagre, and at the age of fifteen years he entered the employ of the Apollo Iron & Steel Works, and continued his connection therewith for seven years after its removal to Vandergrift, Pennsylvania, when it became the American Sheet & Tin Plate Company. He continued to work with the company after this move, although his residence was still maintained in Apollo, about two and a half miles distant. About 1905, however, he came to Vandergrift to live.
Mr. McIntire was the last man to turn out sheet iron in the old Apollo mill, from which the machinery was gradually removed, and the first to turn out the finished product at the new Vandergrift mill.
Mr. McIntire continued in the ore department for some years, and was finally appointed superintendent of the cold rolling department, in which capacity he had some seventy-five men under him.
For many years Mr. McIntire was a prominent man in the communities where he chose to reside. While still in Apollo he served on the City Council, and in the year 1914 he was chosen by an overwhelming majority as burgess of Vandergrift. During this period the section known as Vandergrift Heights was annexed to the city, as was also the locality known as Park Place.
Mr. McIntire always felt a keen interest in the welfare of the employees of the mill, and especially for those who worked under his direction, and advocated many measures intended to improve their condition. Many of the men who worked there were of foreign birth and not a few of them were almost totally unfamiliar with the English language, and it was his desire to give them every facility possible to learn the tongue of their adopted land with the idea of increasing and crystallizing their conception of Americanism and the duties of the American citizen. He was largely responsible for the movement looking to establish night schools for the foreign born of Vandergrift.
He was always intersted in athletics, outdoor sports and pastimes of every description. Through his personal interest in the matter the seasons of Hallowe'en and Christmas became periods of good cheer and wholesome, innocent sport for the youth of the community in general. A municipal Christmas tree, loaded with many hundreds of presents, was a fixed institution in the community, and under Mr. McIntire's supervision was a gathering place for every child, for whom he occupied the place of a veritable Santa Claus.

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General Notes: Wife - Elizabeth "Bessie" McAllister

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from Oil City, Venango Co, PA

1 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 519.

2 J. G. White, A Twentieth Century History of Mercer County Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1909), Pg 1105.

3 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 520.

4 —, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk, & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 882.

5 Addams S. McAllister, The Descendants of John Thomson, Pioneer Scotch Covenanter (Easton, PA: The Chemical Publishing Company, 1917), Pg 217.

6 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 521.