Ball, Eli a Baptist minister, was born in Marlborough, Vt., Nov. 2, 1786, and united with a church in Boston in 1805. Having pursued a course of theological study under private instruction, he preached for several years in Harwich, Mass.; Wilmington and Lansingburg, N. Y.; and Middletown, Conn. He removed South in 1823, and was successively pastor in Lynchburg, Va., and of a church in Henrico County, in which latter place he remained seven er eight years. He performed much service for several of the organizations of his denomination in Virginia and Georgia; was for a short time a professor in Richmond College and editor of the Richmond Herald. In 1848 he visited Africa. for the purpose of gaining information regarding the Liberian mission. As he was preparing to make another visit, he died in Richmond, July 21, 1853. See Bapt. Ency. p. 64, 65. (J. C. S.)
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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