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WILLIAM TRIMBLE McCLINTICK.
Hon. William Trimble McClintick, a life
member of the Ohio
State Archaeological and Historical
Society, a cultivated gentleman,
and one of the most distinguished
citizens of Ohio, died at his resi-
dence, Chillicothe, on October 28, 1903,
at the unusual age of eighty-
four. Mr. McClintick was a man far above
the average in ability and
intellectual achievement. His long life
spanned almost the first cen-
tury of Ohio's statehood history, and he
had the unique experience
of having known personally Ohio's first
Governor, Edward Tiffin, and
with two exceptions, all the rest to and
including Governor Nash.
One of the most interesting portrayals
of personal reminiscence per-
haps in Ohio literature is the address
by Mr. McClintick, delivered
at the Centennial celebration of the
adoption of Ohio's first constitution,
held at Chillicothe, on November 29,
1902. Those who were present on
that occasion will never cease to
remember Mr. McClintick as he stood
before the audience, with the courtly
manner of a gentleman of the
old school, and told with genial humor,
and rare literary flavor, some
of the important events of Ohio's
history, in which he was either
spectator or participator. Mr. McClintick was the master of wide
culture; college bred, an accomplished
lawyer, and a man of wide
affairs and experience. Ever a close
observer and philosophical thinker,
he carried with him an environment of
marvelous mental acquire-
ment and trained temperament. The publications of the Ohio State
Archaeological and Historical Society
contain some choice contribu-
tions from Mr. McClintick's pen.
Perhaps no tribute to him could
be better expressed in brief words than
that comprised in an address
by Judge Archibald Mayo before the Ross
county bar, on November
14, 1903. "Mr. McClintick's success
was manifold--that of the pro-
fessional man, the business man, the
society man, the church man.
His life was an illustration of the
health-giving, life-sustaining, hap-
piness-creating success of temperate and
regular habits: and of the
success of persevering application in
the accumulation of skill and
usefulness, knowledge and wealth. His
career manifested what good
breeding, good schooling, and an
inherited aptitude for business and
work are able to bestow upon a man of
talents in a period of such
opportunity as existed here in his
time."