a minister of the German Reformed Church South, was born in Carroll County, Maryland, July 23, 1801. He was received into the Church under the Reverend Jacob Geiger; studied theology at Carlisle, Pa., under the Reverend Dr. Lewis Mayer; was ordained in 1828, and sent as a missionary to North Carolina, where he labored faithfully and with great success up to the time of his removal to Augusta County, Virginia, where he died, October 9, 1864. See Harbaugh, Fathers of the Ref. Church, 4:219-223. (D.Y.H.)
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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