History of Pittsburgh and environs, from prehistoric days to the beginning of the American revolution .. . s life. He was an elder in the old SecondPresbyterian Church, of Pittsburgh, as was also hisson-in-law. Judge Walter H. Lowrie, and in a laterperiod in the same church his grandsons, the brothersOliver and Thompson McClintock. He was first treas-urer of the Western Foreign Missionary Society ofthe Synod of Pittsburgh, when it was organized in 1830in the Second Presbyterian Church, with Rev. E. , D. D., as secretary. After several years of activeand successful missionary work in for
History of Pittsburgh and environs, from prehistoric days to the beginning of the American revolution .. . s life. He was an elder in the old SecondPresbyterian Church, of Pittsburgh, as was also hisson-in-law. Judge Walter H. Lowrie, and in a laterperiod in the same church his grandsons, the brothersOliver and Thompson McClintock. He was first treas-urer of the Western Foreign Missionary Society ofthe Synod of Pittsburgh, when it was organized in 1830in the Second Presbyterian Church, with Rev. E. , D. D., as secretary. After several years of activeand successful missionary work in foreign countries,it was merged into the Board of Foreign Missions ofthe Presbyterian Church, organized by the PresbyterianGeneral Assembly in 1837. Washington McClintock, Samuel Thompsons son-in-law, and R. D. Thompson, his son, succeeded to hisbusiness in 1837, under the title of W. McClintock &Company, but the firm was dissolved in 1844, Washing-ton McClintock continuing alone on Fourth avenue,near Wood. His store was destroyed in the great fireof 1845. Having bought his father-in-laws store prop-. Tte Ajnencnn f^isfoncal BocieUi Sng. bj ECmiliams ? Pro hH /^/h €-t^^j:t^^ BIOGRAPHICAL erty on Market street near L,iberty from his estate,he moved his carpet business into that building. Thepresent McClintock building was erected on that 1862 he took his oldest son Oliver into partnership,the firm title being W. McClintock & Son. In 1863he bought out Robinson & Company, his chief com-petitor, and organized it into a new and separate firm,Oliver McClintock & Company. In 1864 the firmof W. McClintock & Son was merged with OliverMcClintock & Company. Olivers three brothers weresuccessively taken into the firm, Walter Lowrie Mc-Clintock in 1864, Thompson McClintock in 1874, andFrank Thompson McClintock in 1884. In 1897 theold firm was incorporated as the Oliver McClintockCompany, with Oliver McClintock, president; WalterL. McClintock, treasurer, and Frank T. McClintock,secret
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