Danker, George a Methodist Episcopal minister, was born near Bremen, Germany, in 1794. He was converted in 1824; immediately became an earnest exhorter, for which he was severely persecuted; labored some years as a city missionary with marked success; came to America in 1836, and settled in Marietta, Ohio, where for some time he preached with large success for the Lutheran Church. About three years later he united with the Cincinnati Conference, and in it continued faithful and laborious until 1859, when he became snuperannuated, and retired to Marietta, where he died, March 4, 1861. See Minutes of Annual Conferences, 1861, page 166.
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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