Caswell, Jesse a Congregational minister, was born in Vermont in 1809. He graduated at Middlebury College in 1832, and studied theology for one year in Andover Theological Seminary as a member of the class of 1837, and was also a student in Lane Theological Seminary from 1835 to 1837. He was ordained as a city missionary at Cincinnati, O., in 1837 was agent for the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions in 1838; a missionary to Siam in 1839 and later; and died there, Sept. 25, 1848. See Trien. Cat. of Andover Theol. Sem. 1870, p. 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