Axford, William an English Congregational minister, was born at Westbury, Wilts, in 1824. While a young man he gave himself to evangelistic work, and labored zealously as a home missionary in Liverpool, Prescot, and Wandsworth. He was educated at Cotton End, and settled in the pastorate at Castle Donington, in Leicestershire. After three years he removed to Clayton West, Yorkshire, where he was ordained. - In 1865- he' removed to Charmouth and Lyme Regis, and in October of the -following year began to devote his entire time to the latter. In the autumn of 1868 he became pastor of Collyhurst-street Chapel, Manchester, and in 1870 of the Church at Peasley Cross, St. Helens. Here he labored for little more than three years, when, in the midst of usefulness, he was smitten down with an illness from which he never recovered. He died Dec. 29,1878. See (Lond.) Cong. Year-book, 1880, p. 306
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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