Boies, Charles Alfred a Congregational minister, was born in Boston, in June, 1838. For a year after the close of his college course at Yale (1860), he was an instructor in Florida. In the fall of 1861 he entered the seminary at Princeton, where he remained through the winter and then went to Keene, N. H. He at once began to preach in the neighboring town of Roxbury, taking also an active part in the Sunday-schools of that neighborhood. In Sept. 1862, he entered the seminary at Andover, and remained there till January, when his health gave way. He died at Keene, May 14, 1863. See Obituary Record of Yale College, 1863.
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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