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COLONEL JAMES H. McCLINTOCK.

Arizona The Youngest State

VOL III ,page 52-55.1916 by: James H. McClintock

Colonel James H. McClintock was horn in Sacrarnento, California, February 23, 1864, and is a son of John and Sarah G. (Brittingham) McClintock, of Illinois and Maryland, respectively. The father was a pioneer of California, where, in Sacramento he became a grain shipper and where for many years he was city auditor. James H. McClintock acquired an 'academic education in his native state, in San Francisco and Berkeley, and later graduated from the Normal School of Arizona at Tempe. In early manhood the engaged in teaching for several terms. He arrived in Arizona in June; 1879, on one of the first passenger trains into Maricopa. He located in 'Phoenix, having come to the territory to join his brother, Charles E. McClintock, then 'engaged in the publication, of the Phoenix Herald and soon thereafter took part in the' first republican organization known in Phoenix. He has since been connected with many papers published in the state, in

Phoenix, Prescott, Globe, Tempe and Tucson. While residing in Tempe, when but twenty. two years of age, he was made justice of the peace and at the same time was engaged in the publication of a paper and in the operation of a farm. For years he was a member of the board of directors of the normal schools of Arizona.

Colonel McClintock was an employee in the adjutant general's office at Whipple Barracks in 1886-7 at the time of the Geronimo campaign. For a long period he was the Arizona member of the national irrigation congress executive committee, also acting as secretary for the congress. In April, 1898, while conducting a news bureau at Phoenix, he assisted Colonel A. 0. Bodice and Captain William O . O'Neill in enrolling a cavalry regiment for the Spanish-American war. Only two troops, two hundred and fifteen men, were accepted. Colonel Bodice became major, with - McClintock and O'Neill as senior captains in the First United States Volunteer Cavalry, otherwise known as Roosevelt's Rough Riders. The history of this command is too well known to need extensive comment. Captain McClintock was named for the brevet of major, for gallantry in action. He was seriously wounded on the 24th Of June, 1898, at Guasimas, Cuba, three bullets striking him in the leg, and it was not until Thanksgiving Day that he was discharged from the hospital at Fort Wadsworth on Staten Island.
This did not close his military record, for in June, 1902, he was elected colonel of the First Arizona Infantry. Soon after he commanded the regiment in the most trying labor trouble ever known in the southwest in a riot of thirty-five hundred miners at Morenci. He handled the situation with firmness, fully protecting the property involved and was gratified that his task was accompanied by no bloodshed. For eight years he was at the head of the regiment and for much of the time acted as adjutant general of Arizona. He has served as president of the Rough Riders Association and is its historian. He was also the first commander of the' Spanish War Veterans for the Department of Arizona. The first field service that the National Guard of Arizona ever participated in was under the direction of Colonel McClintock in camps in Arizona and California. He is an acknowledged expert in military sanitation and camp arrangement and discipline.
In April, 1902, Colonel McClintock was appointed postmaster of Phoenix and for twelve years filled the position under three presidential appointments. When he became' incumbent the income of the office was twenty-eight thousand dollars annually. When he surrendered office to a democrat, October 1, 1914, the income had increased to one hundred and twenty thousand, showing something of the growth of the city. He had in stalled six rural routes and had been largely responsible in securing for Phoenix the new federal building, erected at a cost of one hundred and seventy thousand dollars.
Colonel McClintock has also been active along other lines. For eighteen years he has been the editorial representative in Arizona of the Los Angeles Times and has done much magazine writing and special literary work. He has taken 'keenest interest in archaeological research, and has served as president of the Arizona Folklore Association. In the fall of 1889, he was a member of an expedition sent out by Maricopa county to discover reservoir sites in the mountains of Arizona, the other members being County Surveyor Breckenridge and John R. Norton. They were the discoverers of and first platted the site of the Roosevelt dam. Colonel McClintock also for years was a director of the Phoenix Board of Trade and in 1910-11 was its president.
1n June, 1900, was celebrated the marriage of Colonel McClintock and Dorothy G. Bacon of Palo Alto, California, a graduate of Stanford University. She specialized in botany in college work and has done much work in the classification of the flora of the southwest. Mrs. McClintock was one of the founders of the Woman's Club of Phoenix and also of the Arizona Federation of Women's Clubs.
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