a minister of the Protestant Episcopal Church, was born at Nassau, N.P., in 1812 and died in 1854. He graduated at Yale College in 1831, and about 1843 was licensed to preach by the Presbytery of New York, but afterwards joined the Protestant Episcopal Church, and was ordained by bishop Bowen, of South Carolina, in which state he labored until 1845, when he succeeded Dr. S.H. Tyng as rector of the Church of the Epiphany, Philadelphia, where he remained until compelled by ill health to resign, only a few months before his death. He edited Goode's Better Covenant, etc., and The Convict Ship, for which he wrote introductions; and was the author of Protestant. Episcopal Views of Baptism, Explained and Defended (Philadel. 1846, 18mo): — Sermons (30) preached in the Church of the Epiphany, Philadelphia, preceded by a biographical sketch (Phila. 1855, 8vo). — Allibone, Dictionary of Authors, s.v.
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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