a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, was born in Brunswick County, Virginia, February 8, 1804. In 1822 he entered the Tennessee Conference, in which and in the St. Louis Conference (after 1874) he served efficiently as preacher, missionary to the Indians, and editor of the Memphis Christian Advocate (1854), until compelled to take a supernumerary and finally a superannuate relation. He died March 16, 1883. See Minutes of Annual Conferences of the M.E. Church South, 1883, page 75.
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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