Bowman, Robert an English Congregational minister, was born at Langholm, Dumfriesshire, July 27, 1818. At the age of seventeen he went to Huddersfield, and shortly afterwards was converted and joined the Independent Church at Highfield. He was educated at Edinburgh University. He preached successively at Sunderland, 1843; Chelmsford, 1846; Fishstreet Chapel, Hull, 1854; Melbourne, Australia, 1858; and at Heckmondwike, England, 1860, where he died, Sept. 4, 1867. Mr. Bowman had clear and correct perceptions of divine truth and wonderful power of imagination, which he carefully cultured. He had great facility of utterance, aptness, with a peculiar force of expression, and an attractive eloquence. See (Lond.) Cong. Year-book, 1868, p. 252.
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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