an Irish Wesleyan minister, was born at Bandon, November 19, 1807. He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, with a view to the established Episcopal ministry, but on the completion of, his course decided to enter the Methodist itinerancy. He was received by the Conference in 1834, and appointed to the Londonderry Circuit. He labored on the most important circuits in the Conference, and was chosen to nearly all the principal offices in the connection, having been twice elected president of the Conference. During the last nine years of his life, in addition to his circuit work. he filled the important office of theological tutor in the college at Belfast, a position for which his learning, culture, and sympathies eminently qualified him. He died at Belfast, June 22, 1882. See Minutes of the British Conference, 1882, page 39.
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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