an Episcopal clergyman, was born at Deerfield, N. J., in 1823, and was educated for holy orders at the Protestant Episcopal Theological Seminary of Virginia, where he graduated in 1847. After ordination he was successively stationed at Christ Church, Towanda; Trinity Church; Rochester; Pittsfield, Mass.; Le Roy, N. Y.; and in 1860 went to Cheltenham, Pa. In 1866 he became general secret mar of the Evangelical Education Society of the Protestant Episcopal Church, and held this position until his death on the wreck of the steamer "United States" on the Ohio river, Dec. 4, 1868. He published Sunday-school Illustrations (Phila. 1851, 18mo; very popular): — The Shepherd's Voice (1853): — — Union Notes on the Gospels (1855-58, 2 vols. 18mo); this is based on an English work, and, like all publications of Parvin, is very largely circulated. — He also contributed to many periodicals, and wrote a number of children's stories. See Newton, God's Interest in the Death of his People (Phila. 1869).
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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