a Methodist Episcopal minister, was born in Indiana about 1830. He was converted in early life; educated in part in Asbury (now De Pauw) University; engaged in teaching for a time, and began preaching in 1858. After supplying a circuit in the North-west Wisconsin Conference, lie was received into. the travelling ranks, where he continued for six years, then took a supernumerary relation, and the next year was transferred to the Minnesota Conference, in which he labored until comelled to take a superannuated relation. He died April 3, 1882. See Minutes of Annual Conferences, 1882, page 318.
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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