a Unitarian minister, was born at Salisbury, Connecticut, February 12, 1781. He was fitted for college at Williamstown, Massachusetts; graduated from Yale in 1803; studied law for a few months; and then commenced the study of divinity under president Dwight. He was licensed to preach in December 1804, and was ordained and installed minister of the congregation in Greenfield, September 13, 1805. He resigned this charge September 13, 1808, and was installed as pastor of the Hollis Street Church, Boston, March 8, 1809. He accepted an invitation to the presidency of Transylvania University in 1818, and held that office till 1827, when he resigned it, with a view to taking charge of a seminary in Louisiana, but was attacked with yellow fever in New Orleans, and died July 31, 1827. See Sprague, Annals of the Amer. Pulpit, 8:265.
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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