Anne style of architecture. The walls are of brick, 20 inches in thickness. The floors and roof are 12 inches thick, and of the most solid description. They are built of spruce plank, placed side by side and spiked together, and both underneath and above this planking is a wire lathing and layer of asbes tos paper. The first floor and basement are leased by a dry goods establishment at a rental that pays the Company fair interest on the investment.

The northerly entrance leads by an easy flight of stairs to the second story, where is found a permanent home for the Company. Competent judges pronounce it one of the best arranged, best lighted and ventilated insurance offices in the country, specially adapted to the growing wants of the Company. The office, or working room, is 100 feet long by 30 wide, 14 feet stud. The front is lighted by one plate glass window, 8x10 feet in size, and two, 5x8 feet, and the rear in a similar way, and supplemented by two large turret skylights, furnishing the room with a flood of light. Four handsomely finished fire-places, one in each corner, furnish ample ventilation to this story. Over these fire-places are handsome mantles and large plate glass mirrors. This story is also amply supplied with lavatories, closets and coat rooms, most conveniently arranged. Upon the south wall of the office is a row of cherry casings, 65 feet long and 14 feet high, divided into two sections, provided with sliding glass doors, and shelves and pigeon-holes to accommodate the accumulation of records and other docu

We cannot but regret the loss of a life in youth and middle age, but when the allotted span of life is fully completed, we bow to the inexorable law of nature and lay our loved ones away with their kindred, shed tears over their graves, and build a monument to perpetuate their memory. A man's life, however, is but a single link in the family history, in the countless generations which have preceded him, and in the generations which will live after him. His acts and his character make an impression on his surroundings; and as his forefathers are in great measure responsible for his personality, so also he impresses and stamps his descendants with qualities and characteristics peculiar to himself. In sketching a man's life, therefore, it is but just to give the meagre details obtainable of his forefathers, their surroundings, their actions, and their character.

The origin of the McClintock family is lost in antiquity. The coat-of-arms of the Irish branch translated means that some member of the family went on several pilgrimages to the Holy Land and was in command of a body of horsemen in two or more of the crusades. The ermine indicates the descent of the family from royalty. The motto is Virtute et Labore. The family is of Scotch origin. In the north of Ireland,

where a branch of the family has been settled for over three hundred years, there are six distinct families of the name enumerated with the English gentry. The best known of this branch is Sir Francis Leopold McClintock, the Arctic explorer, who discovered the traces and fate of Sir John Franklin's expedition.

William McClintock, the progenitor of the New England branch of the family, was born in Scotland about 1670, migrated at an early age to the north of Ireland, and was engaged in the memorable defense of Londonderry in 1689. He came to America about 1730 and settled in Medford, Mass., before 1732. He was an industrious farmer, busy with Scotch thrift in increasing his property, and not entering into the politics of the day. He was married three times before migrating, and his third wife accompanied him to New England. He was married a fourth time in this country, was the father of nineteen children, and died at the age of ninety, about 1760. He belonged to the Presbyterian church and was the father of the Rev. Samuel McClintock, D. D., of Greenland, N. H., an ancestor of the Rev. John McClintock, D. D., of Philadelphia, and of the New Hampshire branch of the family.

II. William McClintock and his

years after their marriage. Upon her death he moved to Boothbay, in the District of Maine, where he married Margaret Fullerton. March 11, 1770, the New Hampshire Legislature voted "giving leave to William McClintock, of Boothbay, in the State of Massachusetts, to export 70 bushels of corn for said Boothbay." He died June 3, 1779, aged 49 years, of yellow fever.

III. William McClintock, born in Boothbay September 26, 1778, commenced his sea-faring life at the age of seventeen and pursued that calling for forty years. In 1798 he was mate with Capt. Dickey, in the schooner Hester, bound to Bristol from the West Indies. She was captured August 18 by a French privateer and a prize crew put aboard. The vessel was recovered by her old crew, who overpowered their captors and completed her voyage to Bristol. The Frenchmen accepted the situation so gracefully and behaved so well that the intention was not to deliver them up to the authorities, but they were found out and lodged in Wiscasset jail. While there Capt. McClintock supplied the officer with clothing and made him as comfortable as possible. On a subsequent voyage, while master of the sloop Hunter, Capt. McClintock was overhauled by a French privateer, who boarded him in his own boat. The of ficer no sooner stepped on deck than he seized the captain, hugged and kissed him, and began to inquire for people in Bristol. He was his old friend, the prize officer of the Hester, who suffered him and his vessel to go in peace.

In October, 1800, while master of the sloop Hunter, from the West Indies to Bristol, Capt. McClintock providentially rescued from death a portion of the crew of the Galgo, a wrecked Brit

saved. A few days later, October 12, the Hunter was hove to by an armed vessel under Spanish colors that took two puncheons of rum from the cargo, robbed the vessel of spare cordage, twine, arms and other things, and left her. Next day the same cruiser hove the Hunter to again and took another puncheon of rum, leaving word that if he fell in with the vessel the next day he would take two more. What the real character of this queer craft was Capt. McClintock never knew, but he was certainly what the sailors call “a rum customer." Probably he was one of those cruisers that were either privateer or pirate, as opportunity offered. For some years Capt. McClintock sailed a sloop packet between Ireland and the United States.

Capt. McClintock enjoyed the highest respect and confidence of all with whom he was associated in business, and was a remarkably successful commander. No vessel under his command was wrecked or seriously damaged. In the intervals of his sea life Capt. McClintock filled various offices of trust conferred by his fellow citizens. His proficiency in mathematics was such that when disputes arose between the proprietors of Bristol and the settlers he was selected as referee, and made a survey of the whole town, which quieted the differences and marks the boundaries of lots to this day. He held jus tice commissions from Gov. Gerry in 1810 and from Gov. Brooks in 1817. He was a member of the Massachusetts Legislature in 1809, 1810 and 1811. When Maine separated from Massachusetts in 1820, he was a member of the convention that formed a constitution for the new State. He was twice a member of the Maine Legisla

ture, the last time in 1835. He held a commission in the custom house under Collectors Farley and McCobb. Capt. McClintock was a man of deep religious feeling. It was his custom o have daily prayers on board his vessel, and to discourage profanity and every form of irreligion and vice. A man of temperate life and regular habits, he enjoyed vigorous health almost to his latest days, and his mental faculties were strong and clear to the last. To such a man death could have neither terrors nor pangs. In calmness he awaited the hour of dissolution. He died March 18, 1875, in his ninety-seventh year. [The above account of Capt. William McClintock is condensed from an article in the Republican Journal, of Belfast, Me.]

He was very much interested in historical subjects, and his retentive memory was stored with facts and traditions. A delegation of the Maine Historical Society visited him after he was eighty years of age and gained many impor. tant facts from oblivion. With his young grandson he would start off for a week's cruise over the winding roads of the old town of Bristol, and would make every moment interesting by stories and legends. Old Pemaquid was a source of never failing interest to him, and all the inlets and points about the bay were crowded with memories. He always maintained that the settlement founded at the old fort before Jamestown was settled was permanent and therefore first in the thirteen colonies. Many historians and antiquarians now believe as he did. The old tombstone at the fort dated 1694 is of one of his ancestors.

IV. John McClintock, born in Bristol, Maine, April 9, 1807, died in Chelsea, September 8, 1886. He was the second son of William and Francis

(Young) McClintock, and on his mother's side a direct descendant of John Rogers, the martyr. His boyhood was passed on his father's farm and on the adjacent ocean, and he was at home on either. His education was received at the district schoolhouse, and so well did he improve his opportunities that he taught school seven winters while a young man. His natural bent was to follow the sea, and soon after he was twenty-one he was in command of a coaster. In 1833 he bought an interest in the Eliza, the first of a long list of vessels of which he owned a part. There was the Increase, the Mary and Susan, Araxene, Briganza, Genesee, Narcoochee, Roderick Dhu, Medalhon, Dashaway, Harry Hammond, Clara and Hattie-making his last voyage in the latter vessel in 1880,-an almost continuous sea service of fiftythree years. During those years he had several times circumnavigated the globe and has been into nearly every foreign and domestic port. He was a very fortunate ship master, never having lost a vessel.

He was a skilful navigator and appreciated the science of taking advantage of winds and currents to help him on his way. He was popular with his brother sea captains and generous to all in distress. He was a very modest man, shunning evil, honorable in all his dealings, scrupulously honest in all his business relations. He was fond of music, a game of whist, a good story, and good company generally. He was deferential in his treatment of ladies, his manner being courtly, if a little oldfashioned. He reveled in good books. The standard authors, from Herodotus to Dickens, were familiar to him. He found delight in the conceptions of the poets, and had such a retentive mem