a Scotch clergyman, son of the Reverend James Foote, minister of Fettercairn, graduated from Marischal College and the University, Aberdeen, March 31, 1798; was licensed to preach July 25, 1804; presented by king George III to the living at Logie, and ordained December 21, 1809; promoted to the third charge at Aberdeen in November 1824, and admitted. June 23, 1825; joined the Free Secession May 24, 1843, and died June 25, 1856, aged seventy-four years. He published four single Sermons (Dundee, 1813; Lond. 1819): — Lectures on the Gospel by Luke (Glasgow, 1838, 6 vols.): — Pastoral Letter to the Congregation of the Free East Church (Aberdeen, 1844): — A Treatise on Effectual Calling (Edinb. 1846): — A Sermon in the Free Church Pulpit (volume 1). See Fasti Eccles. Scoticanae, 3:473, 838.
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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