an eminent Unitarian minister, was born in Gloucester. Mass., February 16, 1791, and graduated at Harvard College in 1811. From 1817 to 1819 he was connected with the university as tutor. In the year last named he accepted an invitation from the Unitarian church at Charleston, South Carolina, and was soon afterwards ordained. He continued to serve that church with great popularity up to the year of his death, which took place February 9, 1858. He was a frequent contributor to the North American Review, and his papers showed a wide range of scholarship, as well as great skill in execution. A number of his essays, etc., are collected in his Contributions to Literature (Bost. 1856, 12mo). See Monthly Religious Magazine (Bost. 1858); Allibone, Dictionary of Authors, 1:674; New American Cyclopaedia, 8:256.
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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