Bradford, Allen a Unitarian minister, was born at Duxbury, Mass., in 1765. He graduated at Harvard College in 1788, and was tutor there from 1791 to 1793. He was settled as pastor of a Congregational Church in East Pownalborough, Me., in 1793, and, after continuing there for eight years, engaged in the book trade in Boston. He was secretary of state in Massachusetts from 1812 to 1824. He died Oct. 26, 1843. He published a number of single sermons. See Sprague, Annals of the Amer. Pulpit, 8:209.
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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