Brooks, Boswell a Presbyterian minister, was born at Westmoreland, N.Y., August 20, 1805. He graduated at Union College in 1828, and at Yale Divinity School in 1833; was licensed by the Association of the Western District of New Haven County, and ordained evangelist by the Presbytery of Kaskaskia, September 15, 1833. He became supply pastor at Collinsville, Illinois (1833-34), and Akron, Ohio; principal of Cuyahoga Falls Institute, 1837- 40; teacher at: Lakeport, N.Y., 1840-41 supply pastor at Niagara and Pendleton, 1841-46; at Gosport, 1846-47; at.Carlton and Kendall, 1848- 53; and principal of academy at Lawrenceville, Pa., where he died, Feb. 2, 1854. See Norton, Hist. of the Presb. Church in Illinois.
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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