a minister in the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, was born in Gloucester County, Va., Oct. 27, 1808. He experienced religion in 1826, and in 1841 entered the Virginia Conference. In it he labored as diligently as his health would permit until 1851, when superannuated and settled on a farm in Mecklenburg County, where he spent the remainder of his life in farming, teaching school, and frequent preaching. He died June 11,1854. Mr. Andrews was a modest, unassuming minister, and possessed good natural and acquired pulpit gifts. See Minutes of Annual Conferences of the M. E. Church, South, 1854, p. 335.
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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