a Congregational minister, was born at Auburn, Mass., March 6,1812. He studied at Phillips Academy, Andover, graduated from Amherst College in 1837, and four years after from the East Windsor Theological Seminary. He was ordained at Ware, June 22, 1842, of which church he was pastor until 1851, when he became professor of ecclesiastical history and the pastoral charge in the East Windsor Seminary, retaining that position until 1853. On September 1 of that year he was installed pastor of the Church at Lee, and died in Newburyport, September 18, 1876. Among his published works are, Pilgrims' First Year in New England (1857): — Memoir of Rev. Bennett Tyler, D.D. (1859): — Conversion Through Personal Effort (866): — Prophet of the Highest (1873). See Cong. Quarterly 1877, page 416.
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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