a Congregational minister, was born at Topsfield, Me., in April, 1806. He graduated from Bowdoin College in 1829, having experienced religion in his senior year; also. from Andover Theological Seminary in 1832. He was ordained pastor of the Third Church in New Haven in July, 1833, where his ministry, continued for thirty-three years, during the early part of which he passed through many trying scenes, owing to differences of religious opinions in his Church and pecuniary embarrassments of the society, but at length succeeded in securing the erection of an attractive church edifice. and laying the foundation of a prominent and strong religious society in New Haven. He died Feb. 16,1866. Constitutionally conservative yet, when the hour of trial came in the history of the country, he was a bold, outspoken Christian patriot. While travelling in 1864, both in France and in England, he pleaded the cause of liberty and union with most convincing eloquence. See History of Bowdoin College, p. 391-393. (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