a Scotch clergyman, graduated from Edinburgh University, April 14, 1743; was licensed to preach November 26, 1746; ordained July 31, 1751, as minister to the congregation at Warnford; presented by the earl of Lauderdale to the living at Lauder; admitted September 27, 1753, and died September 24, 1810, aged eighty-six years. He published two single Sermons (1777-78), and An Account of the Parish of Lauder. See Fasti Eccles. Scoticanae 1:521.
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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