a Presbyterian minister, was born in New York in 1796. He graduated at Dickinson College, Pa., in 1823, and spent over two years in Princeton Seminary. He was ordained by the second Presbytery of New York, May 1, 1828; was missionary of the Reformed Dutch Church at Berne, N. Y., in the same year, and afterwards served as stated supply at Stuyvesant; at Hyde Park, 1829 to 1833; at Coxsackie, 1834 to 1847; at Fordham, 1847 and 1848. He died in 1857. See Gen. Cat. of Princeton Theol. Sem. p. 48; Corwin, Manual of the Reformed Church (3d ed.), p. 205.
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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