Barnes, Benjamin Nichols a Methodist Episcopal minister, was born in Southampton. County, Va., Nov. 15, 1808. He received a careful religious training; experienced conversion in 1827; was licensed to exhort in 1829, and in 1830 joined the Virginia Conference, in which he travelled six years, graduating in all the orders of the Church. In 1836 he located and went to Indiana, and in the following year entered the Indiana Conference, wherein he served till his decease, Sept. 6, 1838. Mr. Barnes was a self-educated man. He possessed excellent preaching qualifications, and was a young man of great promise. See Minutes of Annual Conferences, 1839, p. 662.
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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