a Congregational minister, was born in Farmington, Conn., Aug. 26, 1766. He graduated at Yale in 1789, entered the ministry in May, 1791, and was installed pastor of the First Church at Bristol in 1792. He was appointed in 1810, by the Conn. Miss. Soc., to travel through the Northern. part of Ohio. He accepted the position of pastor over the churches of Austinburgh and Morgan, Ohio, and was installed in 1811. He died in the former placeJuly 6, 1835. He was made D.D. by Williams College, 1823. — Sprague, Annals, 2:330.
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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