a Presbyterian minister, was born at Powhatan, Va., April 22, 1796. He graduated at the College of New Jersey in 1814, and returned to Virginia and began the practice of law. He was licensed in 1833, served for several years as agent of the Virginia Bible Society, became pastor of the Presbyterian Church in Winchester in 1839, and agent of the Education Board of the Presbyterian Church in 1846, and died in 1849. See Sprague, Annals of the Amer. Pulpit, 4:777.
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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