a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, was born in New Castle County, Delaware, July 1, 1796. He joined the Church in 1816; received license to exhort in 1818; and in 1819 was licensed to preach, and admitted into the Ohio Conference. On the formation of the Kentucky Conference, in 1820, he became one of its members. He took a superannuate relation in 1827, re-entered the effective ranks in 1830, and continued faithful until 1856, when he again became a superannuate and took charge of a school at Goshen, Oldham County, Kentucky, where he died, April 26, 1858. See Minutes of Annual Conferences of the M.E. Church South, 1858, page 3.
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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