MacClintock, William Darnall, 1858-1936

William Darnall MacClintock was born on July 29, 1858 in Elizaville, Kentucky, the son of Alexander and Cornelia (Darnall) MacClintock. MacClintock received an A.B. from Kentucky Wesleyan College of Owensboro, Kentucky (1878) and an A.M. from Johns Hopkins University (1882). From 1892 to 1925 MacClintock was a professor of English at the University of Chicago. He was appointed professor emeritus in 1925. MacClintock married Lucia Porter Lander in 1886. The couple had four children-Lander, Paul, Hilda, and Elizabeth.

In 1908 and 1912, MacClintock was sent by the University of Chicago and the United States government to lecture to American teachers in the Philippines and to study their educational conditions. On both trips he sailed from San Francisco via Hawaii and Japan to the Philippines, stopping in China on the return trip.

MacClintock’s works include Some Paradoxes of the English Romantic Movement (1903) and Joseph Warton's Essay on Pope: A History of the Five Editions (1933).

William Darnall MacClintock died on April 21, 1936.

From the guide to the MacClintock, William D. Papers, 1903-1908, (Special Collections Research Center University of Chicago Library 1100 East 57th Street Chicago, Illinois 60637 U.S.A.)