Husband Franklin Gray McIntosh 1
AKA: Franklin G. Mackintosh
Born: 30 Sep 1875 - Oil City, Venango Co, PA 1
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Father: Duncan McIntosh (1852-1914) 1 2
Mother: Alice Gray ( -1915) 1
Marriage: 30 Sep 1908 3
Other Spouse: Mary Echols ( - ) 3 - 1897 - ? Venango Co, PA 3
Wife Jean Myler 3
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Father: William Albert Myler ( - ) 3
Mother: Mary Dennison ( - ) 3
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1 F Jean Myler McIntosh 3
Born: 19 Jun 1923 3
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General Notes: Husband - Franklin Gray McIntosh
He received his early education in the public schools of Oil City and Franklin, Pennsylvania, continuing at Dr. Holbrook's Military School at Ossining-on-the-Hudson and at Phillip's Academy, Andover, Massachusetts, and completing his studies at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut. While at school and college Mr. McIntosh took an active part in athletics of all kinds, but he achieved the greatest prominence in football, where his unusual height and weight, undoubtedly, gave him an advantage, he being nearly six feet four in height and weighing approximately two hundred pounds. With a father so closely connected with the oil business it is not surprising that the son has made this his life's work. However, before entering directly into this line of work, Mr. McIntosh for several years after leaving college was engaged in the manufacture of printing ink, and he is credited with having developed a new process for using one of the by-products of petroleum for the manufacture of the cheaper grades of ink. This was a pioneer and an entirely successful development. Heretofore the more expensive linseed and resin oils had always been used. For a number of years many of the great papers of our eastern and middle-western cities were being printed with the product of the little plant of the Eclipse Printing Ink Company, which Mr. McIntosh developed at Franklin.
But in 1901 the "call of oil" was heard and Mr. McIntosh took a position in the paraffine wax department of the Eclipse Works of the Atlantic Refining Company at Franklin. He was soon made superintendent of this department, then assistant superintendent of the plant and later general superintendent, and in 1914 he was made assistant general manager and sat at the same desk and used the same chair which had been used by his father for many years. During the regime of Franklin McIntosh at the Eclipse Works, there were many enlargements and improvements made in the plant and a number of new and successful methods of refining and finishing various petroleum products were developed. However, during this time Mr. McIntosh had been developing oil producing properties in connection with his brother-in-law and the Hon. Joseph C. Sibley, and in the autumn of 1916, with the intention of giving more attention to his private interests, and following a severe illness, he resigned his position with the Eclipse Works. In 1918 Mr. McIntosh was elected a director of the Standard Sanitary Manufacturing Company of Pittsburgh, and he devoted considerable of his time and energy to this concern.
Mr. McIntosh was always fond of traveling and once he had the leisure to carry out his desires he and Mrs. McIntosh spent considerable time in each year to extensive and intensive travel to all parts of America as well as to a number of foreign possessions. He always took great interest in civic affairs and held various offices in the different civic bodies, including the vice-presidency of the local Chamber of Commerce and the Franklin Building and Loan Society, the presidency of the Franklin Club, and for many years was the president of the Franklin Wild Life League. He took a prominent part in the work of the Boy Scouts and from the inception of the Venango-Clarion County Council was their Chief Commissioner. He took special interest in the Boy Scout Camp and contributed liberally both of his time and means to make their permanent camp one of the finest in the United States. He was fond of outdoor life and for a number of years was interested in the breeding and showing of thoroughbred dogs, his kennels annexing more than 2,000 prizes at shows all over the United States and Canada. He produced seven Champion dogs and for three years in succession won more prizes than any other exhibitor of his breed. In later years he was interested in the Field Trials for Pointer and Setter, and succeeded in placing a number of dogs in the top row of winners. Mr. McIntosh was a member of the English Setter Club of America, the Pennsylvania Field Trial Club, the Broken-straw Grouse Dog Club and other sporting and field organizations. His attainments and reputation as a sportsman throughout the State were recognized in 1924, when Governor Pinchot appointed him a member of the Pennsylvania State Board of Game Commissioners. This appointment was confirmed by the Senate and he was, in 1925, reappointed for a term of six years.
Mr. McIntosh held membership in the Franklin, the Wanango Country, the Rotary, and the Old Colony clubs. He was affiliated with the Presbyterian church. In politics Mr. McIntosh was always a Republican, and took an active interest in public affairs, but, like his father, consistently refused to accept any public office.