a Baptist minister, was born at Ashford, Conn., Sept. 25, 1779, and was licensed to preach in 1803. He graduated from Brown University in 1801, having been converted at college. He was first pastor at Salem, Mass., which Church he served twenty-two years. He was elected corresponding secretary of foreign missions in 1826. In 1841, Dr. BolIes made a missionary tour beyond the Alleghany Mountains. He died, full of faith and hope, Jan. 5, 1844. He published a number of sermons. See Sprague, Annals of the Amer. Pulpit, 6, 474.
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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