BIOGRAPHY: Martin Luther McCLINTIC, Mifflin County, PA

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The Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of the Juniata Valley, Comprising 
the Counties of Huntingdon, Mifflin, Juniata, and Perry, Pennsylvania.
Chambersburg, Pa.: J. M. Runk & Co., 1897, Volume I, pages 459-460.

  MARTIN LUTHER MCCLINTIC, Lewistown, Mifflin county, Pa., son of James and 
Catherine (Isenberg) McClintic, was born March 19, 1860, near Belleville, 
Mifflin county.  The McClintic family is of Scotch-Irish descent.  James 
McClintic, born November 21, 1815, was a prosperous farmer of the Kishacoquillas 
valley.  He was an esteemed citizen, a member of the Lutheran church, and 
exemplary in the relations of life.  His wife, Catherine Isenberg, was born 
April 16, 1821.  Of their children, one, named James E., died when ten years 
old;  the others are:  Hon. Joseph H., married to Elizabeth Markley, was twice 
elected on the Republican ticket to represent Mifflin county in the State 
legislature, and served with honor, resides near Belleville;  David R., of 
Tyrone, married Elizabeth Brindle;  George V., married Emma Proctor, resides in 
Groesbeck, Tex.;  John D., living near Belleville;  Maggie A., wife of H. C. 
Walker, D. D. S., of Lewistown;  Martin Luther, of Lewistown, Pa.;  and 
Elizabeth E., wife of George F. Stackpole, editor of the Lewistown Gazette .  
James McClintic died December 19, 1861.  Mrs. McClintic died January 4, 1897.
  Mrs. Catherine McClintic was born near Allensville, Pa., in 1821.  At one time 
she was a resident of Barrville, but spent the last years of her life, after the 
death of her husband, in Belleville.  Her death resulted from pleurisy, and 
succeeded an illness of about two weeks.  She died at the age of seventy-five 
years, eight months and fifteen days.  One who knew her well wrote thus:  "Mrs. 
McClintic was one of those sweet characters that are developed by the chastening 
of the Lord, for she was made perfect through suffering, having for a number of 
years passed under the rod of the Master, her latter days being made more 
painful by a severe cough.  Her love was great, not only for her friends, but 
her charity extended to all, and she had no words of condemnation.  Hers were 
all expressions of sympathy, and her care was not for self, but for others 
always first.  She walked close in the path trod by her Redeemer, and was not 
only ready to go to Him, but rejoiced that the time was so near;  and as her 
spirit fled, her last expressions were words of confidence in Him.  'Blessed are 
they who died in the Lord.'"
  Mr. M. L. McClintic was educated in the public schools of Union township, and 
passed the teachers' examination at Milroy in 1879, under County Superintendent 
McClenahan.  In the spring of 1880, he applied himself to the study of 
telegraphy at Lewistown Junction, and remained there for about a year, as an 
operator for the Pennsylvania Railroad Company.  In 1882, he became private 
operator for Messrs. Boyd, Stickney & Co., western coal shippers, in their 
offices at Lewistown Junction.  His ability and diligence in the discharge of 
duty have obtained for him his promotion to the position of manager of the 
immense shipping business of that firm at Lewistown Junction.  He is a member in 
good standing of the P. O. S. A., Lodge No. 462, at Lewistown.  His politics are 
Republican.  Mr. McClintic holds membership in the Lutheran church at Lewistown.