a Scotch clergyman, was licensed to preach by the Aberdeen Presbytery in 1828; elected minister of the church at Roxburgh Place, Morningside, Edinburgh, and ordained August 7, 1834; transferred to St. Luke's, Glasgow, February 22, 1837; promoted to Ratho, December 22, 1842, and died at Torquay, England, March 16, 1866. He published The Right Improvement of Divine Judgments (a sermon, 1851): — lectures on The Evidences of Revealed Religion, on Infidelity, and on Sabbath-Schools: — A Preface to Watson's Apology for the Bible. See Fasti Eccles. Scoticanae, 1:131; 2:45.
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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