a Methodist Episcopal minister, was born in Campbell County, Virginia. He experienced conversion in 1868; was licensed to exhort and to preach in due time, and about 1872 entered the Missouri Conference, in which he labored faithfully two years, when sickness prostrated him, and after months of suffering he died, in 1874 or 1875. See Minutes of Annual Conferences, 1875, page 46.
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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