Transcription contributed by Martie Callihan 23 December 2004

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WILLIAM C. McCLINTOCK, publisher and proprietor of the Western Star, Lebanon; was born at Newark, N. J., April 21, 1845, and was the fifth of nine children born to William and Eliza (Eccles) McClintock. William, the father of our subject, was born in Pittsburgh, Penn., March 6, 1809; was married, in 1836, at New Haven, Conn.; resided for a time at Bridgeport, Conn., and, in 1858, came to Cincinnati, where he still resides. Joseph McClintock, our subject's grandfather, also a native of Pittsburgh, was Assistant District Paymaster in the United States Army from July 8, 1814, until the reorganization of the army, June 15, 1815, and afterward a merchant in Pittsburgh; he died on a steamboat on the Ohio River while en route for Cincinnati. The great-grandfather of our subject emigrated to America from the North of Ireland, his wife being a native of Scotland. John Eccles, the maternal grandfather of our subject, was a leather merchant in Liverpool, England, where he was born in 1758 and died in 1826. Edward Foster, a maternal great-grandfather of our subject, was a native of England, born in 1750; was Captain of a man-of-war under Lord Nelson at the battle of Trafalgar, and afterward, had command of the navy yard at Kingston, Jamaica, where he died; his, body was sent home in a puncheon of rum and buried in St. John's Graveyard in Liverpool; his wife, Ann Foster, was born in Liverpool and died in New Haven, Conn., in 1849. William C. McClintock received his elementary education at Bridgeport, Conn, At the age of 10 years, he left school and entered the office of the Bridgeport farmer to learn the printing business. In 1857, he went to Cincinnati, where he worked as a printer. He set phonetic type for the Phonetic Journal, published by the Longley Bros.; he worked on the Cincinnati Daily Gazette, and later, in the large book publishing establishment of Robert Clarke & Co.; at the last named house, he continued for several years. On the 28th of March, 1870, he came to Lebanon to act as foreman of the Star newspaper and printing office. On Jan. 19, 1871, he became one of the owners of the newspaper, and has been its sole publisher and proprietor since Jan. 16, 1873. The old Star, which, for more than three-quarters of a century, has been a welcome visitor in the families of Warren County, under its present management is in a more prosperous state than ever before. The present proprietor has enlarged it until it is now a seven-column quarto and one of the largest weeklies published in Ohio. The first cylinder printing-press was placed in the Star office in 1870, and the present proprietor has since added new and improved presses for book and job printing. Since October, 1874, his presses have been run by steam power. In 1880, he erected, on Mulberry street, a two-story brick building for his printing establishment, having under the same roof editorial, composing, press and engine rooms. Mr. McClintock was married, Sept. 7, 1871, to Emma B., daughter of Jacob and Elva (Evans) Egbert,