a Cumberland Presbyterian minister, was born in Butler County, Kentucky, February 12, 1816. After studying at various academies, he was licensed to preach in May 1835, and in September 1837, was ordained at Glasgow, Kentucky. He spent about four years as an itinerant in Kentucky, travelled also for some time as an agent for Cumberland College; then served a year as pastor at Fayetteville, Tennessee; subsequently made an extensive preaching tour, passing through most of the Southern States, returning to Kentucky in 1843. He spent several months of that year in Western Pennsylvania, then went to Philadelphia to organize a congregation, and remained there until the spring of 1851. In the fall of that year he settled in Memphis, Tennessee, and labored there until the latter part of 1855. He died there October 5 of the same year, professor of natural history in the Memphis Medical College. In 1853 he was moderator of the General Assembly. Dr. Porter was devoted to science, and was proficient in astronomy and geology. He published a series of Astronomical Sermons, 400 pp.: — The Atonement: — and a work on the Foreknowledge and Decrees of God. See Beard, Biographical Sketches, 1st series, page 307.
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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