Bartolette, Charles, a Baptist minister, was born in Lower Dublin, Pa., in 1783. He pursued his theological studies with Rev. Dr. Samuel Jones; having completed which, he accepted a call to become the pastor of the Church at Flemington, N. J. Under his long and useful ministry the Church enjoyed a large measure of spiritual prosperity. For thirty-six years he was the pastor of the sole Church which he served in that relation, and retired from active service only because of failing health.He removed his membership after his resignation to the Tenth Church in Philadelphia, in whose communion he died, in 1853. See Minutes of Philadelphia Baptist Association, 1853, p. 20. (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