a Baptist minister, was born July 26, 1802. He graduated from Yale College in 1829, and for two years following was rector of the Hopkins Grammar-school at New Haven; was ordained as an evangelist in the Baptist ministry, September 14, 1834; was professor of languages in Denison University, Granville, Ohio, and held the office one year, 1836; for three years (1836-39) was professor of Greek in Cincinnati College; the year following a professor in what is now Colby University, Waterville, Maine; then returned to Cincinnati College after a time became principal of the classical school connected with the Baptist Theological Institute at Covington, Kentucky, and at the same time professor of ecclesiastical history and Greek literature; for several years was principal of the highschool, and superienntendent of schools in Covington; and spent the last four years of his life in St.Anthony, Minnesota, where he was pastor of a Baptist Church. We died March 18, 1870. (J.C.S.)
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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