a Methodist Episcopal minister, was born .at Burlington, Vt., Feb. 15, 1814. He experienced conversion in 1832, received license to exhort and preach in 1841, and in 1842 united with the Troy Conference. In 1850 he located in his native town, and for six years followed printing. He published a Vermont Directory and the Vermont Courier, a newspaper. In 1856. he was again admitted into the Conference, and continued to serve in the pastorate until 1871, when, being appointed secretary of the Vermont State. Temperance Society, he retired to Burlington and commenced the publication of the Vermont Witness. He died Aug. 3, 1878. Mr. Atwater was a man of tireless activity; he had a passion for work; was honest, fearless, pronounced, persistent, a champion in the temperance reform. See Minutes of Annual Conferences, 1879; p.44.
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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