Balch, Hezekiah James a Presbyterian minister, was born at Deer Creek in 1746. He graduated at the College of New Jersey in 1766; was licensed by the Donegal Presbytery in 1767; and was ordained by the same Presbytery in 1770. He spent his life laboring in the Southern States. He died in the summer of 1775. He was a man of fine personal appearance and an accomplished scholar. See Sprague, Annals of the Amer. Pulpit, 3, 417.
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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