a Scotch clergyman, son of a schoolmaster, was himself schoolmaster at Kincardine in 1789, afterwards at Skye, and recommended for the mission at Reav and Halkirk. He became assistant minister at Croy; was elected to the charge at the Gaelic chapel in Glasgow in 1810, and ordained; but resigned the charge in 1822, and removed to Rosskeen. He had a new church built in 1832; joined the Free Secession in 1843; and died May 26,1856, aged eighty-three years. He was a ready and humorous speaker in Church courts. His son James was minister of the Free Church, Comrie. See Fasti Eccles. Scoticanae, 2, 323; 3, 34.
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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