Chase, Mary, a minister of the Society of Friends, and wife of Abijah Chase, was reared in the Protestant Episcopal Church, but abandoned it at the age of nineteen to join the Quakers, and soon after became a preacher among them. Her favorite theme was the fulness and freeness of salvation. She died at Salem, Mass., April 26, 1861, aged eighty-seven years. For several years previous she had been an invalid. See Amer. Annual Monitor, 1862, p. 20.
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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