Berger, Jacob a Lutheran minister, was born at Westerloo, Albany Co., N. Y., 1799. In his twentieth year he became a student of the Hartwick Seminary, where he made a public profession of religion, and united with the Lutheran Church. He graduated from Union College in 1824, and took a course in theology in 1825; was licensed and ordained the following year, and commenced his ministerial labors at Ghent, N. Y. He subsequently organized a Church at Valatie, and became an assistant to the Rev. F. J. G. Uhl; and thus Churchtown was added to his charge. There he labored with much zeal until his death, March 11, 1842. See Sprague, Annals of the Amer. Pulpit, i, 172; Evangelical Review, 8:210.
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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