Burroughs, William a Congregational minister, was born in Boston, Mass., Feb. 1, 1823. After graduating he was for one year a member of the Yale Law School. He then pursued a course of theological study in the seminary of this college, and received license to preach, in 1846 for one year, and in 1847 for four years. His health was too feeble to permit him to discharge the duties of a clergyman, and he resumed the study of law in Philadelphia. In 1853 he was admitted to the bar; in 1855 he travelled extensively in Europe. He died in Germantown, Pa., March 24, 1861. In his last will he bequeathed to Yale College, for the benefit of the Theological Institution, the sum of $10,000, subject for a few years to a small annuity. See Obituary Record of Yale College, 1861.
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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