a Presbyterian minister, was born at Manlius, Onondaga County, N.Y., February 7, 1803. He graduated from Union College in 1825; studied three winters (1825-28) in Princeton Theological Seminary, was licensed in 1828, and ordained pastor of the Church at Geneva in 1830. He edited the Christian Magazine at that place, afterwards settled at Hagerstown, Md. (1845), and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (1846). He was president for a time (1855-58) of the Western University of Pennsylvania. He died at Princeton, March 14, 1883. See Necrol. Report of Princeton Theol. Sem. 1883, page 18.
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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