Calder, John (3), D.D.
a Scotch Dissenter, was born at Aberdeen in 1733, and educated at the university there. He settled with a congregation at Alnwick, Northumberland, where he married a lady of fortune. In 1770 he removed to London, and succeeded Dr. Price at Poor Jury Lane. .Soon afterwards the society was dissolved, Dr. Calder became a member of Mr. Belsham's Unitarian congregation in the Strand, and devoted himself chiefly to his literary labors. He died in 1815. 'He published a Sermon (1772) :-a translation of Le Courayer's Last Sentiments on Religion (1787), and other works. See Allibone, Diet. of Brit. and Amer. Authors, s.v.; Rose, Gen. Biog. Dict. s.v.; Wilson, Dissenting Churches, i, 127.
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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