Bacon, William a Presbyterian (N. S.) minister, was born in Cherry Valley, N. Y., August, 1789, and graduated at Union College in 1815. He studied theology with Drs. Nott and Yates, and was ordained by the Presbytery of Buffalo in 1817. He served as pastor at Waterloo, Cayuga, Cortland, and Saratoga Springs, and as missionary in Troy, N.Y., and Philadelphia, Pa., and New Orleans, La. His later years were spent in retirement and affliction, but not in idleness; his time was taken up in writing for the press. Besides numerous contributions to periodicals, he published Tracts on Episcopacy, Old and New School Presbyterianism, Salvation made Sure, Salvation in Earnest, etc. He died April 2, 1863. — Wilson, Presbyterian Hist. Almanac, 1864, p. 283.
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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