Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-11-23
EMORY McCLlNTOCK ILL
VICE PRESIDENT OF MUTUAL
STRICKEN WITH APoPLExY.

NEW YORK. November 23.-Emory Nc:
Clintock. the vice president of the Mutual
Life Insurance Company, is dangerously Ill
with apoplexy
Temporary paralysis of his right side fol-
lowed. Although he has recovered suffi-
GENTLY from the paralysis to be able to sit
up, Mr.. McClntock, it is sad is suffering
from aphasia and is watched day and night
by physicians at his home il Morristown.
n. ]. Although Mr.. McClintock's friends
have maintained the strictest reticence as
to the grave nature of Mr.. McClntock' S
condition, this has been open secret
among those who came in contact with him
or his encourage at his house.
While Mr.. McClintock was elected first
vice president in December. 1905, he did
not actually take Office until the spring, re-
placing Free Vive Presidents Robert A
Grannis and Walter r. Gillette, both of
whom are now under indictment.
Mr.. McClintock held his Office actively for
a few weeks, and then departed for Europe
where he was absent for about two months
Although while in England Mr.. McClintock
was well enough to testify before a special
insurance committee of the house of lords,
his European visit, 1t was learned last
night was partly on account of his i'll
health.
ArQuOuS IaDOrS.
For more than sixteen years an actuary
/ of the company and somewhat of a re-
cluse by habit Mr. McClntock felt keenly
the active responsibilities suddenly thrust
on him by his appointment to the first vice
presidency. Charles A. Peabody being
new chief executive, much of Mr. Peabodys
administrative work devoved on Mr.. Nc
Clintock. Added to this. Mr. McClintock
had to support on one pair of shoulders
highly exacting labors formerly borne by
two experienced men. All of these things,
1t is said, weighed heavily on his mind.
On his return from Europe, in August. in
the belief that he had virtually recovered
from his illness, Mr.. McClintock bent with
redoubled energy to his work, having how
ever frequent periods of sickness. when,
like as not, he persisted in attending to his
duties. Soon after his return Mr. McClin-
took made a statement that the interna-
tional poicyholders' committeeman as a
committee were small potatoes remind
ing him of the college professors definition
of dirt as matter out of place" Samuel
Untermeyer, the international committee S
counsel. retorted with the statement that
Mr. McClintock was the head and front of
the unspeakable old (McCurdy) regime. .
He followed this up, in answer to a chal-
| lenge from Mr.. McClintock, by making pub
| lie certain correspondence between Mr. Nc
! Clintock and w. L. Holden, the company's
| former Massachusetts general agent in
| which Mr.. McClintock told Holden to "kill'
| certain legislation. This encounter, 1t Is
| said preyed also on Mr.. McClintock's mind
Mr.. McClintock's Career.
Following the stroke of apoplexy last
! month, Mr.. McClintock has been absent
| from the companys offices.
! Beyond saying that he was suffering
| from a nervous trouble officers of the
| company would not discuss Mr.. McClin-
tock's condition last night.
| In view of the present fight for control
| of the Mutual Life, and the fact that, &C.
| cording to persistent rumors, Mr.. McClin-
| took had hoped to succeed Mr.. Peabody as
| president of the company, a wide interest
| 1t is considered, attaches to Mr.. McClin-
| tocks condition. Mr.. McClintock's name
| was even mentioned as a successor to Act
| ing President Frederic Cromwell, Mr. Pea
/ body's predecessor.
| Mr.. McClintock is sixty-seven years old
| He is a native of Pennsylvania. His father
! was the Rev. Dr. John McClintock He
| was graduated from Columbia, where he
| later received the honorary degree of LII
| d. Yale has conferred the same honor on
! him. Mr. McClintock entered the life IN
surance field in 1868, as actuary of the AS
| bury Life Insurance Company, and took
! the same position In. the Northwestern Mu-
/ tual Life, In 1871, retaining 1t until 1880
4 when he became the actuary of the Mutual
| From 1895 to 1897 he was president OF
4 the Actuarial Society of America, and has
| been a Fellow OF the Institute of Actuaries
4 of Great Britain since 1874. He is also
1 connected as member or corresponding
i member with the actuarial societies OF
! France. Belgium and Germany, and Is vice
| president for the United States of the per-
manent committee of international con-
crosses of actuaries.