Croes, John a minister of the Protestant Episcopal Church, was born September 22, 1787. Ordained deacon in 1809, and subsequently a priest, he began his labors in the ministry in St. Peter's Church, Freehold, N.J.; was thence transferred to Christ Church, Shrewsbury, and afterwards to Christ Church, Middletown. After a few months spent in New Brunswick, he became rector of St. Paul's Church, Paterson, where he remained three years. During the following two years he was in Newirk, and the two years succeeding he assisted his father, 'the bishop' of New Jersey, in Christ Church, New Brunswick. He became rector of that parish at the death of his father, and continued there for eight years. In Keyport he founded and served St. James's Church nine years, at Brown's Point, erecting the building on his own land and by his own gifts and collections. He finally made his residence at Brooklyn, N.Y., where, and in adjoining places, he was busily employed until his death, August 18, 1849. See Amer. Quar. Church Rev. 1849, page 446.
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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