Bulmer, Agnes a Christian poetess, the daughter of Mr. Edward .Collinson, was born in London, Aug. 31, 1775. In 1789 Wesley admitted her into the Methodist Society, and she became a member of Hester Ann Rogers's class; in 1793 she was married to Joseph Bulmer of London; she became the intimate friend of Drs. Adam Clarke and Jabez Bunting; and on Aug. 30, 1836, she died, in the Isle of Wight, and was buried in the catacombs underneath City-road Chapel, London. In 1825, while travelling in a coach, she wrote the fine hymn, "Thou who hast in Zion laid," first sung at the laying of the foundation-stone of the Methodist chapel in Oxford-road and Ancoats- lane, Manchester, and published in the Supplement to the Wesleyan Hymn- book (1830). She was an extensive contributor to the Wesleyan Methodist Magazine and Youth's Instructor. Her more ambitious publications are, The Messiah's Kingdom; a Poem (Lond. 1800), highly praised by James Montgomery and others:--Memoirs of A Mrs. Mortimer: -Scripture
Histories (3 vols. 18mo) :-Select Letters and Poems, with Memoir by W. M. Bunting (12mo, posthumous). See Memoir, by Anne R. Collinson; Stevenson, City Road Chapel, p. 498, and Wesleyan Hymn-book and its Associations, p. 373; Memoir, by Mrs. Rowley (Dr. Clarke's daughter), in 'Wesl. Meth. Magazine, October, 1840, p. 801.
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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