Beattie, Alexander a Presbyterian minister, was born in County Altrim, Ireland, July 21, 1824. He was educated at Belfast College, and studied theology at the Belfast Theological Seminary. He emigrated to Canada and subsequently to the United States. He was ordained vby the Ouachita Presbytery of Arkansas in 1851, and labored first at Ebenezer and Mountt Carmel, next at Three Creeks, Scotland, and Eldorado, then at La Pile and Carolina, and finally at Arkadelphia, where he died, Aug. 16, 1865. See Wilson, Presbyteria Historical Almanac, 1866, p. 346.
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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