a Congregational minister, was born in Atkinson, N. H., June 5,1787, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1811. He was ordained pastor in Dedham April 20,1815, and resigned in 1829 to accept the situation of general agent of the American Education Society, of which, in 1832, he was chosen secretary and director. In April, 1841, he resigned, and was elected professor of history and national education in Dartmouth. In January, 1844, he went to Gilmanton as president of the theological seminary. He died April, 1850. Dr. Cogswell published A Catechism on the Doctrines and Duties of Religion (1818) — Assistant to Family Religion (1826): — Theological Classbook (1831): — Harbinger of the Millennium (1833): — Letters to Young Men preparing for the Ministry (1837); and several occasional sermons. He was editor of the Amer. Quart. Register, of the N. H. Repository, of the 1st vol. of the New England Hist. and Genealog. Register and some other works. — Sprague, Annals, 2:605.
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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