Babbitt, Carlisle a Methodist Episcopal minister, was born in Vermont, March 19, 1808. In 1831 he entered the itinerant ranks of the Kentucky Conference. He located and moved to Illinois in 1855, and in 1857 united with the Southern Illinois Conference, in which he labored with -anxious zeal and fidelity until his decease, June 26, 1864. Mr. Babbitt was a devoted father and husband and an excellent minister. See Minutes of Annual Conferences, 1864, p.206.
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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