a Presbyterian minister, was born at Washington, Kentucky, August 22, 1814. He graduated from Augusta College in 1834, and from Princeton Theological Seminary in 1838; was ordained pastor at Newtown, Pa., in the latter year; removed to Ohio in 1856; in 1859 became president of the Female College at Oxford, and died there, November 3, 1882. See Necrol. Report of Princeton Theol. Sem. 1883, page 35.
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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