a Congregational minister, was born at New Haven, Connecticut, January 14, 1810. He graduated from Yale College in 1828; and subsequently studied in the Law School and the Divinity School. He was pastor of the South Church in Hartford, from April 12, 1837, to June 23, 1843; in Canandaigua, N.Y., from January, 1845, to October 1867; for three years of Yale College Church and Livingston professor of divinity in the college; and from February 1871, to September 1877, pastor of the Second Church in New London, Connecticut; and subsequently resided in Hartford without charge. He died September 1, 1880. See Cong. Year-book, 1881, page 21.
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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