Past and Present of Dallas County, Iowa
Chicago: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company, 1907.

J. H. McClintock

J. H. McClintock is the owner of four hundred and eighty acres of rich farming land on sections 25 and 26 Adams township. It is a valuable property, well improved, and in its further development the owner is giving evidence of a thorough understanding of the most modern and progressive methods of agriculture.

Mr. McClintock is one of Iowa's native sons, born on the 10th of February, 1857, his parents being Eston and Huldah (Rush) McClintock, both of whom were natives of Somerset county, Pennsylvania. They came to this state in the year 1853 and are still residents of DeSoto, having for more than a half century been identified with the interests of the commonwealth. The father served for one year in the Civil war as a member of the Twenty-seventh Iowa Infantry and after the close of hostilities he removed to Jasper county, where he purchased a farm, giving his time and energies to general agricultural pursuits for many years. In 1902, however, he removed to DeSoto, Dallas county, where he now makes his home in honorable retirement from further labor. Unto him and his wife have been born six children: Mary, the wife of C. Taylor, who lives in Jasper county, Iowa; Jennie, the wife of Clinton Taylor, who makes his home in DeSoto; J. H., of this review; Jessie, living in Missouri; Grant, who is located in South Dakota; and Minnie, the wife of Charles Hummel, of Madison county, Iowa.

In taking up the personal history of J. H. McClintock we present to our readers the life record of one who is well known in Dallas county as an energetic agriculturist and a man of determined spirit. He was reared to the occupation of farming and has always followed that pursuit in its various phases. In addition to the tilling of the soil he also makes a specialty of raising stock and this proves a profit able source of income to him. His place of four hundred and eighty acres constitutes a large and valuable farm of Adams township, the soil being arable and responding readily to the care and labor bestowed upon it. The place is well kept in every particular, the buildings are modern and the stock raised is of good grades.

In 1884 Mr. McClintock was united in marriage to Miss Delphia Montgomery, who was born in Jasper county, Iowa, in the year 1860, and is a daughter of William and Delena J. (Rein) Montgomery. Her father was born in Pennsylvania and her mother in Ohio. They were married in Jasper county, Iowa, where they lived for many years, and the mother still makes her home there, but the father died in the year 1891. At the time of his demise he was the owner of valuable farming land, amounting to five hundred acres, and was accounted one of the prosperous agriculturists of his community. His family numbered thirteen children, including Mrs. McClintock, who by her marriage has become the mother of four children: Maud and Jennie, who are graduates of the DeSoto high school; Ross, who is a student in the high school; and Esther, who is yet in the grammar school.

Mr. and Mrs. McClintock are members of the Christian church and Mr. McClintock gives his political support to the democracy. He has served as school director for several years and his influence is given for the furtherance of educational and other interests which he deems essential to the welfare and upbuilding of the county.