Dr. Ebenezer P. McClintock

Dr. McClintock was a veteran of the Civil War and served with the 114th Regiment as Hospital Steward and then with the 175th NY Infantry and later with US Volunteers as an Assistant Surgeon. He was born in Kortright, Delaware County, New York.

He graduated from The Vermont Medical College in Castleton NY in 1861. He went to Mt. Upton and began practicing medicine there until he signed up with the 114th Regiment in 1862. He may have met Harriet Morse, daughter of Stephen Morse, who lived in Butternuts not too far from Mt. Upton at that time she worked as a school teacher. She began teaching as early as 1860 when she was 19 years old.

The following quote is from the link below.
http://genealogytrails.com/ny/chenango/historybook_pg11.html
Source: "History of Chenango and Madison Counties, New York", Volume One;
by James H. Smith, Published by D. Mason & Co. (1880)

"Ebenezer McClintock came from Delaware County in the fall of 1861 and practiced about a year. He then enlisted in the 114th Regiment, was discharged by reason of disability, came home, and afterwards received an appointment as Assistant Surgeon in a reserve surgical corps. After the war he located at Morris, where he died of consumption."

He is buried in Hillington Cemetery on the "old hill" along with his wife Harriet E. Morse and his infant child Willie F. McClintock. His wife died at the age of 28 years of consumption in 1869 and Dr. McClintock followed in 1870 [but his stone lists the year of his death as 1871] also of consumption which we now call tuberculosis.

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/152222474/ebenezer-mcclintock

During the Civil War Dr. McClintock was in charge of sick soldiers being transported north from New Orleans to New York City on The U.S. Transport North America in hopes that the northern climate would speed their recovery. The ship made it past Key West with no troubles, but further along it started leaking in rough seas. The leaks overcame the ability of the pumps and eventually the boilers were swamped and the ship drifted helplessly. The captain of the ship, Captain Marshman had the flag placed at half staff and upside down which attracted the help of the barque Mary E. Libby under Captain Thomas Libby. Unfortunately the steam ship that was being used to transport the sick sank during the night while Dr. McClintock, the ship's Captain, and the the Captain's son with other crew members were on the Mary E. Libby in the Atlantic off Savannah, Georgia on December 22, 1864. He was ordered to return to New Orleans by January 5, 1865. He wrote one superior that he had been wrecked on The Empire City -- but my search on that assertion only led to this article, which doesn't mention any stranding or wreck of The Empire City in January 1865.

Surprisingly the survivors other than the women who were first rescued turned out to be mainly crew members of the ship. You can read details of the event in the two files attached below one from The Philadelphia Inquirer and one from The New York Times. Captain Marshman went down with the next ship that he captained that had difficulties as you can read in the Charleston, South Carolina newspaper attached below.

The whole sad tale was written up in a book by Michael Martin published in 2014 under the title, "The Wreck of the U.S. Transport North America."

In the Morris on the 1868 map you can see that Dr. McClintock once owned the substantial home shown below that stood next to the Quickway on Broad St. It was later owned by Dr. Still.

The only mention of Dr. McClintock in Joyce Foote's book about Morris 1773-1923 --

"The next building was D. I. Laurence's store (Naylor Co.), and thirty years ago his brother John and wife lived on the second floor. It was some times a Good Templars' lodge, and then used for dressmaking - shortly after you went away by Grace York and Carrie Mann, both now dead, the former as Oscar Hurlbutt's wife, but two years ago, leaving a daughter the image of herself, and now married and having a child of her own. Mr. Laurence had just taken his store back into his own hands from Henry Whitcomb, who had purchased it in 1868 or 9, in company with Dr. McClintock, the latter dying soon after. Mr. Laurence carried on the business for some years longer."

Besides being a doctor in Morris, Dr. McClintock was a partner in a store with a Mr. Whitcomb, but his illness forced him to give up his partnership, his home, and his practice and he moved into Payne's Rooming house on Main St.

I found this CDV photo of Dr. Ebenezer McClintock -- I will share both front and back of the card.