Evarts Jeremiah, secretary of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, was born in Sunderland, Vermont, February 3, 1781, and graduated at Yale College in 1802. He studied law, and practiced it at New Haven up to 1810, when he removed to Charlestown in order to edit The Panoplist, which he continued up to 1820. In 1811 he entered the service of the American Board as treasurer. He continued in that work, first as treasurer, then as secretary (in 1821), during the rest of his life. In 1820 The Panoplist was discontinued, and the publication of The Missionary Herald was begun by the American Board, with Mr. Evearts as its editor. He died in Charleston, South Carolina (whither he, had gone for the benefit of his health), May 10, 1831. The Reports of the Board during his connection with it were generally from his pen, and that of 1830, the last which he wrote, is a document of great power. His essays, under the signature of William Penn, on the rights and claims of the Indians, were published in 1829. See Tracy, Memoirs of Jeremiah Evarts (Boston, 1845); Christian Review, 11:20; Spirit of Pilgrims, 4:599.
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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