a Protestant Episcopal clergyman of the diocese of Delaware, was born in 1826. He graduated from the Theological Seminary of Virginia in 1850; was rector, in 1853, of a Church in Middleway, Va., and in 1857 of the Church in Topeka, Kan,, where he remained until 1861, when he became rector of the Church of the Ascension in Baltimore, Md., and served there until 1870. His next parish was St. John's, Charleston, Va., residing meanwhile near Kanawha Court-house. In 1873 he had no regular charge, but in the following year was rector of St. John's Church, Kanawha Court- house. After this he was rector of Grace Church, Brandywine Hundred. He died suddenly at Wilmington, April 11, 1877. See Prot. Epis. Almanac, 1878, p. 168.
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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