Moore, Charles a clergyman of the English Establishment, eldest son of archbishop Moore, was educated first at Westminster School, and next at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he took his degrees and obtained a fellowship. He flourished in the second half of the last century, first as rector of Cuxton, in Kent, then as vicar of St. Nicholas at Rochester, and latex as one of the six preachers of the cathedral of Canterbury. He wrote, A Visitation Sermon preached before his Father (1785, 4to): — A full Inquiry into the Subject of Suicide (1790, 2 volumes, 4to): — The good Effects of a united Trust in the Arm of the Flesh and the Arm of the Lord a Sermon (1804, 8vo): — Female Compassion illustrated, a Sermon (1806, 8vo): — Personal Reform the only effectual Basis of National Reform, a Sermon (1810, 8vo). See Biog. Dict. of Living Authors (Lond. 1816, 8vo), page 239.
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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