a Baptist minister and writer, who was born February 15,1815, at Benson, Rutland County, Vermont, and died in New York, August 27, 1857, was literary manager of a number of journals in several of the principal cities of the Union, such as, The New-Yorker, The Brother Jonathan, and The New World; in 1842 and 1843 editor of Graham's Magazine; and from August 1850, to April 1852, conducted the International Magazine. Besides these, he prepared numerous works, especially The Poets of America (1842), etc. See Allibone, Dict. of Brit. and Amer. Authors, s.v.; Duyckinck, Cyclop. of Amer. Lit. 2:532.
The Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature was edited by John McClintock and James Strong. It contains nearly 50,000 articles pertaining to Biblical and other religious literature, people, creeds, etc. It is a fantastic research tool for broad Christian study.
John McClintock was born October 27, 1814 in Philadelphia to Irish immigrants, John and Martha McClintock. He began as a clerk in his father's store, and then became a bookkeeper in the Methodist Book Concern in New York. Here he converted to Methodism and considered joining the ministry. McClintock entered the University of Pennsylvania in 1832 and graduated with high honors three years later. Subsequently, he was awarded a doctorate of divinity degree from the same institution in 1848.WikipediaRead More