Cooper, James Ransom an English Congregational minister, was born at Gosport, January 3, 1792. He received a religious training, joined the Church at the age of seventeen, and soon after removed to London. He obtained his ministerial education at Gosport Academy, and was ordained at Emsworth, Hants, in 1819; removed thence in 1839, and became pastor successively at Pontypool, Wincanton, Old Gravel Lane, London, and finally at Seaford, Sussex. He died August 17, 1867. See (Lond.) Cong. Year-book, 1868, page 264.
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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