Cotelle (de la Blandiniere), Pierre Jacques a French theologian, was born at Laval about 1709. He was at first rector of Soulaines, in Anjou, next vicargeneral of Blois, and superior of the priests of Mt. Valerien. He added ten volumes to the Conferences Ecclesiastiques du Diocese d'Angers of Bobin, in return for which the assembly of the'clergy voted him an annual pension of one hundred pistoles. Moultrot has reproduced it in his Defense di Second Ordre. Cotelle died in 1795. See Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Generale, s.v.
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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