Abbot, John Emery a Unitarian minister, was born at Exeter, N.H. in 1793. He graduated at Bowdoin College, Me., in 1810. Shortly after leaving college he began his theological studies, and prosecuted them partly at the university in Cambridge, and partly under the direction of the Rev. Dr. Channing in Boston. In 1815 he was employed as a candidate, received and accepted a call, and was ordained and installed pastor of the Ninth Church in Salem. About this time he began to discover symptoms of pulmonary disease, and took a short journey South, from which he received injury rather than relief. Later he sailed for Havana; for some reason he was worse on his arrival than when he started. He grew rapidly worse while there, and soon found it necessary to return to Exeter. He died Oct. 6, 1819. See Sprague, Annals of the Amer. Pulpit, 8, 466.
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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