Cox, Daniel a Methodist Episcopal minister, was born at Barnard, Vermont, in August 1801. He professed conversion in early manhood, received license to exhort in 1828, and in 1829 entered the East Maine Conference. Failing health in 1838 obliged him to become a superannuate, which relation he sustained to the close of his life, December 28, 1875. See Minutes of Annual Conferences, 1876, page 90.
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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