Montefiore, Sir Moses a Jewish philanthropist, was born October 24, 1784. He was an opulent merchant of London, and was successively knighted and raised to a baronecy for his public labors; having served as sheriff of London in 1837, and also high-sheriff of Kent. He went in 1840 on a benevolent mission to the East, and on others in 1840 and 1867, in behalf. of his oppressed brethren. In the latter year he founded a Jewish college at Ramsgate. In 1875 he visited Jerusalem the seventh time. He died at Ramsgate, July 28, 1885. See his Centenary Biography, by Lucien Wolf (Lond. 1884; N.Y. 1885); The American Hebrew, October 9, 1885.
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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