Brown, Harvey a Methodist Episcopal minister, was born in New England in 1793. He served as a soldier in the war of 1812, experienced religion in 1820, and in 1829 joined the New York Conference. In 1851 and 1852 he labored in the Illinois Conference, in the following year located, and in 1866 re-entered the New York Conference as a superannuate, and continued to sustain that relation until his death, in Harleih, N.Y., December 15, 1870. Mr. Brown was a man of strong convictions, deep, positive, and unintermittent piety, and great faith. See Minutes of Annual Conferences, 1871, page 108.
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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