an English Congregational minister, was born at Uttoxeter, Staffordshire, about 1842. He was educated at Alleyne's Grammar-school and at Lancashire Independent College. On leaving college, in June 1866, he became pastor of the Church at Newport, Shropshire. In June 1869, he accepted the pastorate at Acock's Green, Birmingham. In 1874 he resigned this charge to take a school at Frome, in the, hope that a more southern climate might repair his, shattered health. He died July 30, 1879. See (Lond.), Cong. Year-book, 1880, page 315.
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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