a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, was born in Fulton County, Pa., in 1833. He. was converted in early youth, and began to preach in his nineteenth year. He united with the Baltimore Conference in 1854, and served in the regular ministerial work (with the exception of two years 1861 and 1862 when he acted as chaplain of the U.S. Penitentiary at Washington, D.C.) until his death, June 20, 1865. Mr. Sikes had a vigorous and well stored mind, and was untiring, industrious, and of unflinching courage. See Minutes of Annual Conferences, 1866, p. 17.
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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