a Methodist Episcopal minister, was born in Gloucester County, N. J., about. 1807. He received a careful religious training; was led to Christ at the age of fourteen; licensed to exhort at twenty-four, to preach at twenty- eight, and at the age of forty received ordination as deacon. - His services as local preacher were abundant and successful, and continued till 1856, when he joined the New Jersey Conference. In 1860 his failing health obliged him to become superannuated, and he retired to his farm in Cumberland County, where he died of cholera, Oct. 3, 1866. Mr. Chew was an excellent preacher, and brought many into the Church. See Minutes of Annual Conferences, 1867, p. 45.
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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