a Congregational minister, was born at Westminster, Vt., April 25, 1794. His father was a soldier in the Revolutionary War, made a profession of religion at the age of eighty-nine, and lived to be nearly a hundred and two years old. Joel was fitted for college at the academies in Pawlet, Vt., and Walpole, N. H., and entered Middlebury College in 1811. Subsequently he studied medicine and practiced about a year; then studied theology with his brother, Rev. Seth S. Arnold, and was ordained pastor of the Church in Chester, N. H., in 1820, remaining there for ten years. He was afterwards pastor successively at Waterbury, Conn.; Colchester and Westminster, Vt.; Middlebury, Conn.; Coventry and Vassalborough, Me. He died at Chester, July 4, 1865. Mr. Arnold published two sermons and two articles in the New-Englander. See Cong. Quarterly, 1866, p. 45..
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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