Newton Co., IN Bio

Newton County, Iroquois Township.  From A History of Warren, Benton, 
Jasper & Newton Counties, 1883.

   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. 



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