a Methodist Episcopal minister, was born in Coshocton County, O., March 7, 1836. He received a careful religious training; experienced conversion in his fourteenth year; spent. two years at West Bedford Academy as a student, and then engaged in school-teaching. He was an unusual and remarkable teacher. In some of his schools nearly every scholar was converted through his prayers and example. In 1864 he was licensed to preach, and in 1866 entered the North Ohio Conference, in which he served the Church valiantly, and died in the midst of his labors, March 31, 1878. Mr. Bell was an excellent man, a faithful and useful preacher; tall and manly in form, genial in spirit, and a loving companion. See Minutes of Annual Conferences, 1878, p. 37.
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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