a Methodist Episcopal minister, was born in Virginia, July 19, 1797. He received a careful religious training; experienced conversion in his nineteenth year; soon began exhorting, and in 1817 joined the Virginia Conference. Four years later he located on account of ill-health removed to Ohio, and in 1830 entered the Ohio Conference, and in it labored diligently till his death, Feb. 22, 1839. Mr. Barrett was open-hearted and frank as a man, confident mand unwavering as a friend, affectionate as a parent, and devoted and zealous as a minister. See Minutes of Annual Conferences, 1840, p. 52.
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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