Brown, Ebenezer a Congregational minister, was born at Brimfield, Massachusetts. He studied theology, and was first settled as pastor over the Congregational Church in the north parish of Wilbraham, March 3, 1819. He resigned this charge, July 1827, and was installed three months later over the Congregational Church in Prescott, where he continued until March 1835. He left this Church to accept a call to the Second Church in Hadley. In 1838 he went from this position to Illinois under a commission from the American Home Missionary Society, and settled first in Byron, Ogle County. In November 1843, he aided in forming the Congregational Church in Roscoe, and two months later assumed its pastoral charge. He died there, February 13, 1872. See Obituary Record of Yale College, 1870-80 sup.
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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