Beatty, Samuel Miller a Methodist Episcopal minister, was born at Hagerstown, Md., Dec. 4, 1805. He embraced religion at the age of nineteen, received license to preach in 1831, and in 1841 entered the North Ohio Conference. From 1861 to the close of the war he served in the United States Hospital in Cleveland, and afterwards in the Bethel agency, one year in Cleveland, and the remainder of his life in Toledo, where he died, Nov. 22, 1876. Mr. Beatty was tall, erect, and well-developed; his features noble and beaming with good-nature; frank and genial in manner. His culture of mind was largely the result of observation, he never having had many school privileges. His life was highly exemplary. See Minutes of Annual Conferences, 1877, p. 110.
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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