Day, John Steele a Methodist Episcopal minister was born at Guildhall, Essex County, Vermont, June 4, 1816. He was converted at the age of fifteen, and licensed to preach in 1839; in 1843 joined the New England Conference, in which-he became a superannuate in 1848; in 1851 resumed effective work; in 1878 took a supernumerary, and, in 1880, a superannuated relation; and died at Winthrop, Massachusetts, March 1, 1882. See Minutes of Annual Conferences, 1882, page 92.
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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