Allen, Peter a minister of the Reformed (Dutch) Church, was born in Columbia County, N.Y., in 1808. He graduated at the New Brunswick Seminary in 1837, and was licensed by the Classis of Poughkeepsie, N. Y., in the same year. He served as pastor at West New Hempstead and Ramapo from 1837 to 1853 — the former in Rockland County, N. Y.; the latter in Bergen County, N.J. After 1853 he again served the former place until his death, which occurred in 1862. He was a good man, and full of the Holy Ghost and of faith. See Corwin, Manual of the Ref. Church in America (3d ed.), p. 164.
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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