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Children of James S. and Emma Barlow (Chambers) Humbird: I. Grace, born December 19, 1875, married Ralph Longenecker, October 30, 1902; chil-
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dren : Catherine, born January, 1904; Eleanor. September 15, 1908; Ralph, January 15, 1911. 2. Eleanor, born February 4, 1877, married Southard Hay, child, Malcolm, born May 19, 1907. 3. John C., born February 27, 1879, unmar- ried. 4. Emma C., born April 21, 1881, married William A. Robinson ; children : Anica Barlow, born December 25, 1907; William Andrew, March 12, 1908. 5. James S. Jr., born November 14, 1882, unmarried. 6. Anica Barlow, born April 11, 1885, maried James H. Reed Jr. All living in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
(The Preble Line)
Frances Anica (Preble) Barlow, wife of Thomas P. Barlow, was a daughter of Henry Preble, granddaughter of General Jedediah Preble, of Falmouth, now Portland, Maine, and great-great-granddaughter of Abraham and Judith (Til- den) Preble, the common ancestors of the American family. Abraham Preble came over from England with the "Men of Kent" and settled somewhere about the year 1636 in Scituate, Plymouth Colony, Massachusetts. He was one of the earliest settlers and soon after his arrival married Judith, third daughter of Elder Nathaniel Tilden, of an ancient family in county of Kent, England. After his marriage he removed to York, Maine, (then Gorgianna) where in 1642 he pur -- chased a tract of land. When York was incorporated as a city he was appointed the first mayor, and for the remainder of his life continued to hold responsible offices of the Province. He was of the councilors or assistants, member of the general court, magistrate, treasurer of the county. He held the military rank of major, and his life was devoted to the public service. He died about March 30, 1663. Children of Abraham and Judith (Tilden) Preble: Abraham, who took an active and very prominent part in the public affairs of the province, and at the date of his death he held thirteen public offices; Rachel, married Joseph Carline; Joseph; Stephen ; Nathaniel; John; Benjamin, see forward; Sarah. married Henry Coombs.
Benjamin Preble, youngest son of Abraham and Judith (Tilden) Preble, was born about 1657, died at York, Maine, March 25, 1732. Little is known of him beyond his marriage and his will which is recorded in York county, Maine. He married, when about the age of forty, Mary, daughter of Thomas Baston. Chil- dren : Judah, John, Hannah, Judith, Abigail, Jedediah, see forward.
Brigadier-General Jedediah Preble, youngest son of Benjamin and Mary (Baston) Preble, was born at York, Maine, 1707, died at Falmouth (Portland), March II, 1784. He was the first of his name that settled on the peninsula of ancient Falmouth now the site of the city of Portland. He is styled in various deeds "yeoman", "coaster", "Gentleman", "squire". His commission as captain of infantry, signed by Governor Shirley, is dated June 5, 1746. April 23, 1754, the same authority commissioned him lieutenant-colonel. March 13, 1758, he was commissioned colonel by Governor Pownal. March 12, 1759, he received from Governor Pownal a commission of brigadier-general of the forces raised by him to be employed in His Majesty's service in the ensuing campaign. He earned these various promotions by service in the field. Soon after the fall of Quebec he was appointed by the governor to the command of Fort Pownal, a new fortress just completed on the Penobscot at what is now Fort Point. Octo- ber 29, 1762, he purchased all the land surrounding Fort Pownal, twenty-seven
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hundred acres. The same year he purchased, at the settlement of the estate of his father-in-law, Androsse's Island, Mansion House, and garden, wharf, ware- houses, breastwork and flats. This is now valuable Portland real estate. March 3, 1763, he was commissioned a justice of the peace. In 1766 representative. In 1763 he was a member of the House from Falmouth and Cape Elizabeth, and one of the "glorious ninety-two" who voted "nay" to the King's command to rescind the celebrated circular letter. In 1773 he was chosen councillor. Jan- uary 25, 1774, he was chosen one of the committee of seven to make answer to letters received from the Boston Committee of Safety. On October 27, 1774, the Salem, Massachusetts, Provincial Congress appointed General Jedediah Preble, General Artemas Ward and Colonel Pomeroy, general officers of the Provincial forces with General Preble in chief command. On account of his years he declined and the appointment was given General Ward. In 1775 Gen- eral Preble was added to the Committee of Inspection when the wretch Mowatt burned Falmouth, and General Preble was a heavy loser in property, greater than any other in the town. In 1791 he was in a measure reimbursed by land grants. In 1776-77-80 he was representative to the Provincial Congress of Massachusetts. June 20, 1780, he was elected councillor for the Province of Maine. In 1788 he was appointed justice of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas for the county of Cumberland. September 4, 1780, under the new State Constitution, he was elected the first senator from Cumberland county. In 1782-83 he held appointment as judge of Inferior Court under the new State Con- stitution, and these were the closing ones of his long career of activity, honor and usefulness. Four days after the signing of a definite Treaty of Peace with Great Britain he breathed his last at his residence in Falmouth. General Preble is represented by contemporaries to have been a commanding and dignified pres- ence, standing full six feet. His common dress was the scarlet coat and laced hat, which previous to the Revolution were only permitted to be worn by the privileged classes. He was of very quick temper, resolute and even stubborn in his purposes. His opinion once formed there was no moving from it, hence the expression, among his descendants, when one shows a set purpose, "he has a touch of the Brigadier in him".
General Preble married (first) March 21, 1733, Martha Junkins. Four sons and a daughter were born to him: Jedediah (2), Samuel, John, William and Lucy. Mrs. Martha Preble died at Falmouth, March 10, 1753. He married (second), May 9, 1754, Mrs. Mehitable (Bangs) Roberts, the childless widow of John Roberts Jr., daughter of Captain Joshua and Mehitable (Clarke) Bangs, originally from Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Five sons and two daughters were born of this marriage: Martha ; Ebenezer; Joshua; Edward, born August 15, 1761, commodore of the United States navy, a brave and most distinguished hero and patriot, who had the honor to be the first to carry the flag around Cape Horn; Enoch, president of the Portland Marine Society for thirty-one years; Statira ; Henry, see forward.
Henry Preble, youngest son of General Jededialı and Mehitable (Bangs- Roberts) Preble, was born on Falmouth Neck, Portland, Maine, January 24, 1770, died at Allegheny, now Pittsburgh, N. S., Pennsylvania, October 25, 1825. Very little is preserved of his early life. He is first heard of definitely in Eng- land, where he was entrusted with letters for Miss Frances Wright and another
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English girl, who were prisoners in Paris during the mad career of Robespierre. He fell in love with Miss Wright at sight and they were soon married. The ceremony in Paris was a civil one as during the French Revolution no religious authority was acknowledged. They soon went to England, where they were again married in church. Returning to Paris Henry Preble made several voy- ages to the United States, and in 1801 went to Italy to open a mercantile house in Tuscany, but did not find a desirable location. He returned to France and opened a commercial house in Havre, then at Nantes; not succeeding well, he went to Paris where as a commission merchant he was very fortunate, but lost his money in speculating in Colonial produce and sending ships to sea. He re- gained his fortune in a similar business. He fitted out privateers in France during the war of 1812 and made a great deal of money, but his fortune failed and he met with severe losses, after which he returned to the United States and passed the summer at "Kalorama" with his daughter Anica (Mrs. Thom- as Barlow). In 1819 he was appointed United States consul at Palermo in Sicily. He collected much valuable information for his fort, while holding the mission, which he resigned in 1820. After his return to the United States until his death, October 25, 1825, his home was with his daughter Anica, at Alle- gheny City, Pennsylvania. He was a man of culture and refinement, and while in prosperity remembered and aided those of his friends less fortunate. In ad- versity he did not lose his dignity of character nor the respect and esteem of others. He inherited the family taste for drawing and painting; many of his drawings and water colors are still preserved with an exquisitely drawn portrait of him by his daughter, Harriet. Children of Henry and Frances (Wright) Preble were two daughters and a son. I. Harriet, the eldest daughter, was born at Lewes, Sussex county, England, September 26, 1795, died unmarried at West Manchester, Pennsylvania, February 4, 1854. Soon after her decease her memoirs with extracts from her correspondence, journals, etc., edited by Professor R. H. Lee, was published. Reared in Paris during the days of Na- poleon, she was acquainted intimately with the persons whose names so fre- quently occur during that period. She was the friend of Lafayette and in after life often entertained her friends with incidents and anecdotes of Napo- leon's first wife Josephine and her daughter Hortense by her first husband, the field marshal. For many years of her life she consecrated all her natural gifts, her native virtues and many excellencies to the cause of religion. She is bur- ied at Pittsburgh. 2. Frances Anica, born in Paris, France, November 25, 1797. died December 24, 1876; she married, July 28, 1817, at "Draviel", now Ver- sailles, Thomas Barlow, of Redding, Connecticut. She was reared and educated in France, but on her marriage left that country and came with her husband to the United States, which was ever after her home. The young couple took up their residence at "Kalorama", a beautiful house erected by Mr. Barlow's brother, Joel Barlow, the lawyer and poet, at Washington, D. C., and from thence they removed to Allegheny City, Pennsylvania. Here her children were born with the exception of the eldest who was born in Washington, D. C. The Barlows afterward lived at Washington, Pennsylvania, where Mr. Barlow died and where she died many years later. 3. Edward Henry, born in Paris, France, October 3, 1805, died unmarried at Versailles, France, July 14, 1826; he was a young man of great promise.
ANDREW HAMILTON MCCLINTOCK
The Revolutionary ancestor from whom Andrew Hamilton McClintock derives his membership in the Sons of the Revolution is Matthias Hollenback, his great- grandfather, who was not only a patriotic soldier but most important and influ- ential in the public life of the Wyoming Valley (see Hollenback). The first of the McClintock family, from whom Andrew H. descends, was James and his wife Jean (Payne) McClintock, who were natives of Raphoe, county Donegal, Ire- land. The ancestors of James McClintock were originally from Argyleshire, Scotland, from whence three sons of Gilbert McClintock came, settling near Londonderry, Ireland. From one of these sons, James, descended Samuel McClintock, who emigrated to America in 1795 and settled in Northumberland county, Pennsylvania, where he died in 1812, aged thirty-six years. His father, James McClintock, followed his son to America and settled in Lycoming county, Pennsylvania. Samuel McClintock married, July 15, 1806, Hannah, daughter of Colonel Andrew Todd, a noted man of Trappe, Upper Providence township, Montgomery county. Hannah Todd was of Irish descent. Her grandfather, Robert Todd, (son of John and grandson of John), was born in Ireland in 1697, died in Providence township, Montgomery county, Pennsylvania, in 1790. He married, in county Down, Ireland, Isabella Bodley, born about the year 1700. They had nine children of whom Colonel Andrew Todd was the youngest. Six of these were born in Ireland and came to America with Robert Todd and his wife Isabella, to New York and thence to Trappe, Pennsylvania, in the year 1737. Three children were born in Pennsylvania, Andrew, the youngest, being born when his mother was fifty-two years old. He became an extensive land owner in Trappe, Montgomery county, Pennsylvania, and was a man of superior mechanical skill, a member of the old Province Presbyterian Church, a soldier of the Revolution and a Justice of the Peace from May 22, 1800, until May 5, 1833, the date of his death. Colonel Andrew Todd married Hannah Bowyer, born in the year 1752, died May 28, 1836, daughter of Stephen Bowyer, a farmer near Providence church. Samuel and Hannah (Todd) McClintock were the parents of Andrew Todd.
ANDREW TODD MCCLINTOCK, LL.D., was born February 2, 1810, died in Wilkes-Barre, Pennslyvania, January 14, 1891. He was but two years of age when his father died. He attended the common schools, where he acquired his early education. He then entered Kenyon College, Ohio, where among his fel- low-students were Hon. Edwin L. Stanton, secretary of war under President Lincoln ; Judge Frank Hurd, the conspicuous Democratic politician of Ohio, and Rufus King, who was Dean of the Cincinnati, Ohio, Law School. He remained three years at Kenyon College and then returned to Northumberland, where he began the study of law in the office of James Hepburn. At the end of a year he removed to Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, and completed his studies with the elder Judge Woodward, whose partner he became immediately upon his admis- sion to the bar, August 8, 1836. They practiced under the firm name of Wood-
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ward & McClintock. The partnership existed until 1829, when Mr. Clintock was appointed district attorney for Luzerne county, Pennsylvania. He did not enjoy the duties of a public prosecutor, and after one year in that office resigned and resumed his regular legal practice. This was the only political office Mr. McClintock ever held, although other and higher offices were offered him that were easily within his reach but they were all declined, even the judgeship of the Luzerne Court of Common Pleas. He did, however, accept Governor Hart- ranft's appointment to the membership of a commission, charged with the revi- sion of the Constitution of 1873, and in the deliberations of that body of eminent jurists he was associated with Chief Justice Agnew, Benjamin Harris Brewster, Attorney General Samuel E. Dimmick, United States Senator Wallace, Senator Playford, Henry W. Williams and the judges of the Supreme Court of Penn- sylvania. In the proceedings and councils of the commission, the opinions of Mr. McClintock had great weight with his colleagues. He enjoyed a large general law practice, but he chose corporation law as his specialty, as the one branch of the law most congenial to his tastes. He was thoroughly versed in the intricacies of corporation law and enjoyed a most lucrative practice among those whose business was done under the various forms of law governing corporations.
From the beginning of his professional career until his death, Mr. McClin- tock manifested an earnest interest in the welfare of his adopted city, its peo- ple and its institutions, and he identified himself with many important measures and enterprises which would advance her prosperity. He was a director of the Wyoming National Bank, of the City Hospital, of the Home for Friendless Children, president of the Hollenback Cemetery Association, an elder of the First Presbyterian Church, and was several times a delegate from the Luzerne Presbytery to the General Assembly of that church. He was an interested member of the Wyoming Historical and Genealogical Society, of which he was vice-president in 1860-64-65-69-75 and president 1876-89-91. The honor- ary degree of LL.D. was conferred in 1870 by Princeton (New Jersey) Col- lege. He was a man of tall, massive figure, endowed with great strength and endurance. He was dignified in manner, yet gentle, genial and sincere in tem- perament, the grace of his presence and the charm of his manner impressed every one who came within the range of their influence. His life work and the commanding position he attained at the bar and in the community where he lived signify more plainly than words the measure of his abilities and the nobleness of his character.
Andrew Todd McClintock married, May 1I, 1841, Augusta Cist, born in the year 1817, died September 24, 1895, daughter of Jacob and Sarah (Hollenback) Cist (see Cist-Hollenback). The children of this marriage are: I. Helen Grin- nan, born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, January 19, 1846, died January 14, 1894. 2. Alice Mary, born January 31, 1848, died October 12, 1900; she mar- ried, October 9, 1872, John Vaughn Darling, born July 24, 1844, a man of let- ters and one of the leading corporation lawyers of Pennsylvania. He died No- vember 10, 1892, in New York City. 3. Andrew Hamilton, see forward. 4. Jean Hamilton, born February 22, 1855, died April 15, 1891.
ANDREW HAMILTON MCCLINTOCK, only son of Andrew Todd and Augusta (Cist) McClintock, was born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, December 12, 1852. He entered Princeton College, from which he was graduated in 1872
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with the degree of A. B. and in 1875 with A. M. He chose the legal profes- sion and read law with his father, also with Edward P. and J. Vaughn Darl- ing, of Wilkes-Barre, the latter his brother-in-law. He was admitted to practice at the Luzerne county bar, January 20, 1876, and began his professional cares in Wilkes-Barre in association with his father. As the latter gradually with- drew from the more arduous work of the office, the son succeeded him, and when Andrew Todd McClintock died, Andrew Hamilton Mcclintock continued the business alone, retaining the old clients, representing and protecting the same interests which in former years had been intrusted to his distinguished father in his capacity of attorney and counsellor-at-law. In addition he has added to the list of clients names and corporations that represent a great deal of Wilkes- Barre's wealth and enterprise. Mr. McClintock, like his father, is a Demo- crat, but without desire or liking for public office. He has other business inter- ests than his profession that demand a share of his time. He is president of the Wyoming National Bank, a vice-president of the Miner's Savings Bank of Wilkes-Barre, a trustee of the Osterhout Free Library of Wilkes-Barre, mem- ber of the Pennsylvania Society, Sons of the Revolution and of the Wyomnig Historical and Genealogical Society, of which he was librarian, 1883-85, and treasurer, 1886-95.
Andrew H. McClintock married, December 1, 1880, Eleanor, daughter of Charles F., Jr., and Elizabeth (La Porte) Welles. Mrs. McClintock, now de- ceased, was a descendant on her paternal side from Governor Thomas Welles, of Connecticut, first treasurer of that colony, and on her maternal side from Bartholomew La Porte, who was a member of the French Refugee Colony Asylum, Bradford county, Pennsylvania. Children of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew H. McClintock: Andrew Todd, born January 21, 1885. Gilbert Stuart, December 27, 1886.
(The Cist and Hollenback Lines)
Jacob Cist, who married Sarah Hollenback, was the father of Augusta Cist, wife of Andrew Todd McClintock. He was the son of Charles Cist, who was born in St. Petersburg, Russia, August 15, 1738, died at Fort Allen, December 1, 1805. Charles Cist was the second son of Charles and Anna Maria (Thiel) Cist, of St. Petersburg, Russia, but of German descent Charles Cist was a student of medicine in the University of Halle. He entered practice and had an apothecary shop in St. Petersburg. He was a Liberalist and joined with others in a plot against the government. His connection was discovered, his goods confiscated, and he was exiled to Siberia in the year, 1767. He escaped and fled to America, where he landed in Philadelphia, October 25, 1773, there he found employment as a translator. In 1775 he was a partner with Melchoir Styner in a printing office in Philadelphia but this was soon discontinued. In 1776 he enlisted as a member of the Third Battalion Philadelphia Militia, Cap- tain George Esterley's company, Colonel William Estabrook, and took the oath of allegiance. He resumed business in Philadelphia after the evacuation of that city by the British, and in 1779 established a German newspaper. In 1784, with others, he established The American Herald and General Advertiser. This did not long exist. In 1789 he and others established the Columbia Magazine.
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Charles Cist published between 1781 and 1805 seven religious and political works in at least four languages and continued in the capacity of printer, publisher and bookseller until his death in 1805. He was a member of the German Society of Pennsylvania, member of the School Committee in 1782; secretary of the As- sociation in 1795 and secretary of a Fire Insurance Company in Philadel- phia. Charles Cist, the Russian refugee, tested the "black stone" (coal) discovered in the Lehigh by Philip Genter and pronounced as anthracite coal. He was one of the founders and stockholders of the Lehigh Coal Mining Com- pany. He is buried in the Moravian burying ground in Bethlehem, Pennslyvania.
He married, in Philadelphia, June 7, 1787, Mary Weiss, born June 22, 1762, tenth of the eleven children born of John Jacob Weiss, of Würtemburg, Ger- many, and his wife, Rebecca (Cox) Weiss, born in Passayunk, Philadelphia. March 23, 1725. The Weiss family were conspicuous as being ardent sup- porters of the cause of the colonies. Colonel Jacob Weiss, brother of Mary (Mrs. Cist) was commissioned deputy quartermaster-general under General Mifflin, of Pennsylvania, and afterwards served in the same capacity under General Greene. John Jacob Weiss, father of Mary, was confirmed in the Lutheran church in 1736. He practiced medicine in Philadelphia, where he took the oath of allegiance to George III. in 1750 and to the United States in 1778. He died September 22, 1788, in Philadelphia, and is buried in the old Moravian cemetery. Rebecca Cox, his wife (mother of the Colonel and of Mary Cist), descended from an ancestry including three of the Provincial coun- cilors of Pennsylvania. She was a great-granddaughter of Peter Larrson Cock (or Cox), born in Sweden, in 161I, came with the third Swedish expedition to New Sweden in 1641, cultivated tobacco on the Schuylkill in 1644, became free- man in 1648, magistrate for South River in 1657, collector of tolls, Philadelphia, 1663; justice for Upland, 1664 and 1666, and Provincial councilor, 1667. He died March, 1688 or 1689. Margaret Dalbo, the mother of Rebecca Cox, was a daughter of Peter Dalbo, who was a member of the New Jersey Assembly in 1685. His wife, Catherine, was a daughter of Peter Gunnarson Rambo, or Peter Rambo, senior, who came to New Sweden, Pennsylvania, in 1638, or 1639. He was deputy from John Rising, Governor of New Sweden to answer Stuyvesant's summons for the surrender of Fort Christiana, September 7, 1655; nagistrate for South River (Delaware) in 1657, and one of those who met Governor Stuyvesant at Tinicum, May 8, 1658, and presented a petition for certain privileges; commissary of the colony of Delaware, 1660-64, when he resigned ; member of the Provincial Council, 1674-80, and one of the first who sat in Upland Court. Helen Helm, grandmother of Rebecca Cox, was a daugh- ter of Israel Helm, captain and trader at Passayunk, 1661 ; superintendent of the fur trade, 1664; interpreter to the Indians; justice of the Upland Court, 1674- 76-80 ; Provincial councillor, May, 1667. Andrew H. McClintock has a most valuable relic of his ancestor, Peter Larrson Cock (Cox), in the form of a table used by him.
Sarah Hollenback, who married Jacob Cist, was a granddaughter of George Hollenback, and daughter of Johannes Hollenback, born September 9, 1720, died in Martinsburg, Virginia, August 8, 1783, and his wife, Eleanor (Jones) Hollen- back. The children of Johannes and Eleanor were baptized by the Rev. John Caspar Steever, and were: Maria; John Matthias, see forward; Anna Maria.
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John Matthias (commonly known as Matthias Hollenback), born February 17, 1752, died February 18, 1829. He came to Wyoming in 1769 and became a wealthy merchant. He was commissioned ensign of the Twenty-fourth Regi- ment, Connecticut Line, October 17, 1775, and commissioned ensign by the Con- tinental Congress, August 26, 1776. He served in New Jersey and at Wyoming, 1776-77-78; was justice of the peace, 1790-1829; lieutenant-colonel, Pennsyl- vania Militia, 1787-92-93; associate judge of Luzerne county, Pennsylvania, 1790-1829. He was the first treasurer of Luzerne county. Judge Matthias Hollenback married, April 20, 1788, Sarah Burrett, born in Stratford, Connec- ticut, November 19, 1750, and they were the parents of Sarah, who married Jacob Cist, and the grandparents of Augusta Cist, who married Andrew Todd McClintock.
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