Oliver McClintock and Clara C. Childs

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Husband Oliver McClintock ¹

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           Born: 20 Oct 1839 - Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co, PA 2
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         Father: Washington McClintock (Abt 1814-1870) 2
         Mother: Eliza Thompson (      -      ) 2

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       Marriage: 7 Jun 1866 3

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Wife Clara C. Childs ³

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         Father: Harvey Childs (      -      ) 3
         Mother: Jane B. Lowrie (      -      ) 4

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1 M Norman McClintock ⁴

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2 M Walter McClintock ⁴

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3 F [Unk] McClintock

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         Spouse: Thomas Darling (      -      ) 4

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4 M Harvey C. McClintock ⁴

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5 F Elsie McClintock ⁴

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         Spouse: Frank D. Nicol (      -      ) 5

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6 F Jeanette McClintock ⁴

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General Notes: Husband - Oliver McClintock

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He was born on Pitt (later Fifth) street, near Liberty street, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the eldest of seven children. He received his early education in the academies conducted by Rev. Joseph S. Travelli, in Sewickley, and Professor Lewis T. Bradley, in Allegheny (later the Northside, Pittsburgh), graduating from Yale College in 1861. He entered his father's business the following year and continued in carpets and interior decorations thereafter, for a period of over half a century. Although devoting himself closely to his business, healso gave much attention and important service in behalf of the municipal, religious and educational interests of his native city. At the time of the organization of the Young Men's Association in Pittsburgh, in 1866, Mr. McClintock was elected president, continuing until 1868. He was elected elder of the Second Presbyterian Church of Pittsburgh in 1863; a trustee of the Western Theological Seminary in 1867, and a trustee of the Pennsylvania College for Women in 1872. He and his brother-in-law, A. H. Childs, founded the Shadyside Academy of Pittsburgh in 1883. He was a director of the Pittsburgh Chamber of Commerce, and a member of the University clubs of Pittsburgh and New York City. He was a member of the executive committee of the National Municipal League, of the Civil Service Reform Association of Pennsylvania, and of the Ballot Reform Association of Pennsylvania.
Mr. McClintock was one of the leaders in organizing the Citizens' Municipal League of Pittsburgh in 1895-96, and a member of the Executive Committee of Five authorized to select candidates for the ensuing municipal election for the three executive city officers, and to conduct a campaign in their behalf. The contest that followed was remarkable for its aggressiveness and heat, and for the good work done in awakening and educating public sentiment to a realization that city government should be conducted on business principles only, divorced from the ruinous partisanship of national parties. So effective was the work done by Mr. McClintock in this campaign that it called forth many tributes, the following, from "McClure's Magazine" of May, 1903, by Lincoln Steffins, being one of many:
If there is one man in Pittsburgh who deserves credit for the successful results of reform in municipal politics, it is Oliver McClintock, for many years one of the most aggressive foes of the political machine. It was on the foundation laid by Mr. McClintock and his associates, in 1895-96, that the Citizens' Party gained an overwhelming victory in the municipal election of 1898, and it was only after the party leaders of 1898 had repudiated principles which he advocated and for which he fought, that he left that party to keep on in his persistent fight for purification of city politics. Victories have not always been with Mr. McClintock, but it was his indomitable persistence, despite defeats, that won for him the admiration of even those whom he fought.

1 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 86, 377.

2 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 87, 377.

3 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 89, 380.

4 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 380.

5 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 89.