Burleigh, William Henry a reformer and poet, was born at Woodstock, Connecticut, February 2, 1812. He early became a temperance and anti-slavery lecturer; removed to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1837, where he published the Christian Witness, and afterwards the Temperance Banner; in 1843 to Hartford, Conn., as editor of the Christian Freenman, soon known as the Charter Oak; in 1849 to Albany, N.Y., as editor of the Prohibitionist; in 1855 to New York city as harbor-master, and subsequently as one of the port- wardens. He died at Brooklyn, March 18, 1871. He was the author of Poems (Philadelphia, 1841; enlarged, with biography by his wife, New York, 1871). See Duyckinck, Cyclop. of Amer. Lit. 2:859.
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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