Will County IL Archives Biographies.....McCLINTOCK, JOSEPH 
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JOSEPH McCLINTOCK.  Although a quarter of a century has elapsed since the death 
of Mr. McClintock, he is still remembered by the older residents of this 
county.  As a pioneer his name is deserving of perpetuation in local annals.  
Coming to America in 1849, the same year found him in Will County, which at 
that time contained none of the improvements which it now boasts.  The land was 
unimproved, the towns small and unimportant, and the surroundings those of the 
frontier.  During the subsequent years of his life he labored to place his land 
under cultivation and devoted himself to his chosen work with painstaking and 
self-sacrificing eare.
While Mr. McClintock was himself an Irishman by birth and parentage, he was of 
Scotch descent.  His father, Robert, spent much of his life in County Antrim, 
but in 1850, the year after his son crossed the ocean, he followed with his 
family and settled in Kendall County, but in 1858 retired to Joliet, where he 
died.  His wife, the mother of our subject, had died in Scotland.  Of their 
marriage Joseph was the only child, although by his father's second marriage 
four children were born.  When he came to America our subject spent a short 
time in Pennsylvania and Michigan, then went to Chicago, and from there came to 
Will County.  At the time of his father's settlement across the Plainfield 
line, in Kendall County, he purchased land with him, but in 1857 sold out there 
and settled on the Plainfield road, in Joliet Township, where he improved a 
large farm three  miles from  the court house.  There he engaged in 
agricultural pursuits until his death, in 1875. In Plainfield, August 26, 1853, 
Mr. McClintock married Miss Eleanor McDougal, who was born in County Derry, 
Ireland, a daughter of Edward and Mary (Smith) McDougal, natives of the same 
county.  Her maternal grandfather, Jacob Smith, was born near Colerain, of 
Scotch ancestry.  Her paternal grandfather, Joseph McDougal, a farmer of County 
Derry, was a son of Joseph, Sr., who removed from Scotland to Ireland.  Edward 
McDougal was a farmer in Ireland in early life, but spent his last years in 
Joliet, where he died at eighty-four years.  His wife died in New Jersey.  Of 
their six children all but one attained mature years, but Mrs. McClintock is 
now the only survivor. She came to the United States in 1851 and the next year 
settled in Plainfield, where she soon became the wife of Mr. McClintock.  After 
her husband's death she continued to manage the farm for seven years, but in 
1882 rented the place and bought a residence in Joliet, where she has since 
made her home. Possessing great energy and activity, as well as good business 
judgment, she has been interested in the real-estate business and has built a 
number of residences on the west side.  She is happiest when busy, and with her 
home duties and business interests finds sufficient to engross her attention, 
although she also gives time and thought to charitable work and to the 
activities of the Central Presbyterian Church, with which she is identified.


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