a minister of the Protestant Episcopal Church, was born in Woodstock, Connecticut, in 1810. He graduated at Yale in 1838; and being admitted to orders, served twelve years in Missouri, and removed to the diocese of Mississippi in 1852, to take charge of St. Paul's Church, Columbus. He was next called to the rectorship of the College of St. Andrew, in 1853, and subsequently to the charge of St. Andrew's Church, in Jackson, where he faithfully served until his death, October 18, 1855. See Amer. Quar. Church Rev. 1856, page 638.
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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