Clark, Albion Byron, a Baptist minister, was born at Sharon, Me., March 24, 1826, and graduated at Waterville College in 1851. For two and a half years he, was principal of the Shelburne Falls, Mass., Academy, and then entered the Newton Theological Institution, but did not complete the full course of study. He was ordained in Skowhegan (then Bloomfield), Sept. 12, 1855, where he was very successful for three years and a half, but was obliged to resign on account of ill-health, in the spring of 1859. For the next three years and more he was an agent of the American Baptist Publication Society, and then accepted a call to the pastorate of a Church in Columbia, Cal. He preached only three months, and for more than two years was disabled by disease. Brought back to his Eastern home, he died in Skowhegan, Me., Sept. 9,1865. (J. C.S.)
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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