La Marche, Jean Francois a French prelate, was born in the diocese of Quimper in 1729, of a noble family from Brittany. After the peace of Aix-la-Chapelle le left the army to embrace the ecclesiastical calling. He was first canon and grand-vicar of Treguier, then abbot of St. Aubin des Bois, and in 1772 was elected bishop of St. Pol de Leon. At the commencement of the Revolution La Marche refused to obey the civil constitution, and, January 8, 1791, fled to London, where he was befriended by Burke and other Englishmen, who charged him with the distribution of means of relief to the French emigrants. This position he held until his death, November 25, 1806. He wrote, Mandements, also a Lettre Pastorale and an Ordonnance, the last in London, August 20, 1791, to warn his diocesans against schism. See Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Generale, 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