a Protestant Episcopal bishop, was born in Wilmington, N.C., May 2, 1798. He graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1818, and then studied theology. He entered the ministry of his Church, and was rector until 1837, when he became chaplain and professor of belles-lettres in the University of North Carolina. In 1850 he was ordained bishop of Mississippi. He was one of the founders of the University of the South at Sewanee, Tennessee, and in 1867 became its chancellor. He died February 13, 1887. He was the author of Memoirs of Bishops Ravenscroft and Otey, and of Sermons on Baptismal Regeneration and Apostolic Succession. See Appletons' Cyclop. of Amer. Biography.
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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