a Congregational minister, was born in New Haven, Conn., April 21, 1815. After graduating at Yale College in 1834, he taught in the academy in New Canaan for nearly a year, and then began a three years' course in the Yale Divinity School. The year 1838-39 he spent as a resident licentiate in the Andover Theological Seminary. He was ordained pastor of the First Church (Congregational) in Charlestown Mass., April 22,1840. He resigned this charge in 1854, and assumed the pastoral care of the Western Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia, Pa. In 1855 he was installed over the Clinton Avenue Congregational Church in Brooklyn, N. Y. He resigned his pastoral office, Dec. 22, 1878, and died in Brooklyn, Nov. 29, 1879. He was a beloved and efficient pastor, and a noble Christian. He published, in 1845, an admirably written history of the First Church in Charlestown; also several sermons and review articles. See Obituary Record of Yale College, 1880.
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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