The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-11-14

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hi ITTsBURG, Nov. q Dryden s.
lintock sofs Idaho City, Boise
omit daho. claims to be the Oldest
~ living 1embers OF the Duquesnc
Gray now known as the Eighteenth
sSregiInent, tional Guard, Of Penn
sSsyIEania. Mr. Dryden was born in
hambersbu Franklin county, on
1924, and is now in his S1st
Having been born in a leap
year he has only had nineteen birth
days, and9this fact seems to have pre-
s&served# his youth, since few seeing his
8&rigor and activity would say he is
an8octogeuarian. For mre than half
9&as century he has led the strenuous.
III as witnessed and been factor in
3&th wonderful development OF the
sgGreat8 West. He has seen the wilder
mess blossom like the rose, and the
hills and mountains yield their treas
sures OF. gold and silver With other
hardy spirits he penetrated what was
then: and for many years after, called
1.-THE Great American Desert but
which is now the seat Of fourishinE
commemorative. Before the march
thesea pioneers the isolation of saw
Sage life disappeared, the Indian van
S#ished, the buffalo died out, the farms,
mines towns and cities took their
places He played a part in the
sgreatS romance OF American civiliza-
81 ton
when Mr.. McClintock was about
years Old his parents moved -
Il
sSsmaH town, and he was apprenticed 70
John Irwin; corner of Fourth and
ssSmithheld streets, to learn the trade
Notwithstanding. In 1843, when only
ssI he enlisted in that famous organ
Nization, the Duquesne Grays, and when
s8war was declared with Mexico in 1876
he went with his command to the
land Of the Montezumas. They were
with Gen. SCOTS :victorious army, ant
RSWentto the City of Mexico, serving
until #the declaration OF peace. MI.
sMcC1intockg left as corporal of his
sscompany, and on returning to IL
lJnited States was mustered out as
orderly sergeant.
Tn184S, land warrants having been
ssgranted#to the soldiers. lie Joined a
party Of other Mexican war veterans
and5started for De Moines, Iowa, there
TO locate claims. They must haze
Sbeen@roving blades, for they landed
81 "a ips In New Orleans, whence, after
spending some time, they returned 20
s8Eittsburg Meanwhile gold had beer
ssdiscovered =in Captain Suffers mill
race IN California, and there was
rush for the new Eldorado. In the
spring of 1850 Mr.. McClintock, ac-
$scompanied by two PitisEurg boys,
sSssTom'' Hogan and II am" Bennett,
THE latter also "a membar of the Du-
@quesne& Grays, and a Mexican war vet
sHeran started for California. They
#MenI by steamboat to ST. Joe, Missou-
and there fitted out fo4 their long
trip across the plains. Following The
#solds emigrant trail to tl,e Platte rivec
y, and d F. rt Laramie, in Wyoming, they
reached Salt Lake City, then but
lately founded by Brigham Young
and the Gornons. They arrived there
AZ on Jul 90, 1850, and spent 20 days an
s$thez City of the Saints. resting anG
preparing for the remainder, and
;shardest part, of the expedition. Go
S ing over the Nevada desert to ths
5#Sinl1#of the Humboldt river, they
5Scrossed the Sierra Nevada, and reach
sEed Haughton, California, about tne
middle of August. Thence their jour
8neyl1ed to Sacramento and San Fran
BEcisco, whence they went to the Mis-
s8sion, and built boat with which 20
up the Sacramento and Feath-
an erssriyersf to Marysville. When they
got there they sold the boat and went
with a pack train to Rich Bar. and
8%spent the winter in mining. Later Mr..
cC1intock went into the Shasta G.
8Sgion, and continued his search for
&Ngold with such success that he was
ENABLED to enter into the livery bust
mess at Yreka.
j$$S His partner in the livery business
was Samuel Stewart, also of Pitts
burg; and in the spring Of 1864, glow
ling reports coming of the great gold
finds in Idaho, they gathered up the
sNhorses; and rigs and took the trail
over to Idaho City, where they 10
Scated, and where the business was
.Ecarried on in the same building until
5s@1S97, by Mr., McClintock, Stewart hav-
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