Bourne, Milton a Methodist Episcopal minister, was converted in his youth, in Vermont, and soon after entered the Illinois Conference, laboring first as a missionary among the Indians, and later as an itinerant minister. In 1840, on the organization of the Rock River Conference, he became a member of it. In 1863 he became superannuated, and retired to a few acres of wild land near Macomb to eke out an existence for himself and his destitute family. He closed his life in 1865. Mr. Bourne was remarkable for his zeal and piety. See Minutes of Annual Conferences, 1865, p. 225.
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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