[3] The club's activities were blamed (but the members were not held legally responsible) for the failure of the South Fork Dam, which caused the Johnstown Flood in 1889 that resulted in the loss of over 2,200 lives in Johnstown, Pennsylvania.

[4] McIntosh graduated from Lafayette College in 1884, where he was an athlete[5] and became a member of the Sigma Chi fraternity.

His most enduring role was Squire Bartlett, who banished the character played by Lillian Gish from his home and into the cold Maine winter in D.W. Griffith's classic film, Way Down East (1920).

Miss Gish described McIntosh as a gentle giant, "always apologizing for having to treat me so cruelly".

[7] It was published and edited by Burr McIntosh, with Clark Hobart as art director.