Curtis, Joseph Wait a Congregational minister, was born in Vermont. He graduated from Dartinouth College in 1811; was ordained, July 5, 1816, pastor at North Yarmouth, Maine; preached at Warren, Ohio, from 1820 to 1832; was chaplain of Vermont penitentiary for two years; missionary in Canada in 1835; without a charge in Vermont the next year; and pastor at Hadley, Massachusetts, from 1836 until his death, March 16, 1857. See Trien. Cat. of Andover Theol. Sem. 1870, page 28.
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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