Chamousset, Claude Humbert Piarrona De a French philanthropist, was born at Paris in 1717, of one of the most distinguished families. As soon as he became master of his fortune he changed his residence into a hospital, and hired a house at the gate of Sadres for a similar purpose. He was also appointed general intendant of the military hospitals. The "Petite Porte de Paris" was established after his plans, and to him we owe the first idea of fire insurance companies. Chamousset died April 27, 1773. He published among other works a large number of Memoires on military hospitals, on abandoned children, on the extinction of mendicity, etc. His complete Works were published by Catton des Houssayes (Paris, 1783, 2 vols. 8vo). See Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Générale, s.v.
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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