a Presbyterian minister, was born at Newburyport, Massachusetts, February 13, 1810. He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1828; was then employed in teaching, became a student in Andover Theological Seminary, and also in Columbia Seminary; was licensed, and spent a part of a year in Princeton Theological Seminary: He was ordained February 14, 1836, pastor of Central Church, Charleston, S.C.; and died there, November 30, 1880. He published a translation of Fenelon on the Education of Daughters (1831): — A Transatlantic Tour (1845): — The Life of the Reverend Daniel Dana, his father (1860); and compiled a volume of Hymns. See Genesis Cat. of Princeton Theol. Sem. 1881, page 98.
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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