Bowen, Charles James a Unitarian minister, was born in Providence, R. I., May 20, 1827. He graduated from Brown University in 1847, and from the Divinity School of Harvard College, and was ordained as pastor of the Unitarian Society at Newburyport, Mass., Nov. 20, 1850, where he remained six years (1850- 56), and then removed to Kingston where he was settled two years (1856- 58). He next went to Baltimore as pastor of the Second Unitarian Society in that city. Finding his position unpleasant at the breaking-out of the late war, he resigned, and for several years acted as chaplain in a hospital near that city. He became the minister of the Mount Pleasant Congregational Society, Roxbury, Mass., where he remained until his death, April 10, 1870. (J. C. S.)
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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