Ames, Bernice Darwin a Methodist Episcopal minister, was born at Shoreham,,Vt., Dec. 26, 1827. He experienced religion in early youth; graduated at Middlebury College when twenty-six years of age; and during the next year was professor of Latin and Greek in the seminaries at Fort Plain and Fort Edward, N. Y. He united with the Troy Conference in 1857, and, after serving the Church in the capacity of travelling preacher a few years, he became affected with a bronchial difficulty, and, resuming his work as teacher, assumed the principalship of the Providence Conference Seminary. During the last year of the war he was secretary of the Christian Commission at Philadelphia. In 1868 he became principal of Mechanicsville Academy, and sustained that office until his death, Jan. 5, 1876. See Minutes of Annual Conferences, 1876, p. 82; Simpson, Cycloepdia of Methodism, s.v.
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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