a Protestant Episcopal clergyman, was born in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1818. He was educated at St. Mary's College, Baltimore, and then studied theology at the Alexandria Episcopal Seminary. His first charge was Old Church, Hanover County, Virginia, and the church at New Kent Court- house. He then became rector of the high-school near Alexandria, where he was eminently successful for several years; visited Europe, and afterwards resided in Baltimore as the president of the School of Letters of Maryland. He was for many years one of the. examining chaplains of the diocese, and. rector of the House of Refuge at the time of his death, October 30, 1881. For many; years, up to 1874, he taught school in the University Buildings on Mulberry Street, Baltimore.
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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