Owen, Lewis, an English theologian and writer, was born in Merioneth County in 1572. After passing some time with the Jesuits in Spain, he left them to reenter the world, and was ever after a bitter opponent of the society. He wrote The Running Register, recording a true Relation of the State of the English Colleges, Seminaries, and Cloysters of all foreign Parts (Lond. 1626); the most curious parts of it are to be found in Restituta, 1:141: — The Unmasking of all Popish Monks, Friars, and Jesuits (ibid. 1628, 4to): — Speculum Jesuiticum, or the Jesuit's Looking-glass (ibid. 1629, 4to); reprinted in Edward Sandys's Europe Speculum. See Chalmers, General Biog. Dict.; Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Generale, 38:1005; Hook, Eccles. Biog. s.v. (J. N. P.)
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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