Smet, Peter John de, a Roman Catholic missionary, was born in Dendermonde, Belgium, Dec. 31, 1801. He came to the United States in August, 1821; entered the Jesuit novitiate at Whitemarsh, Md.; went to Missouri in 1823, and aided in founding the University of St. Louis, in which he labored until 1838. He was then sent to found a mission among the Pottawattomies, afterwards laboring among the Flatheads and the Blackfeet. Taking a general superintendence of these missions, he traveled to collect money for them. He died in St. Louis, May 23, 1873. His principal works are, Letters, Sketches, and Residence in the Rocky Mountains (Phila. 1843, 12mo): — Oregon Missions and Travels over the Rocky Mountains (N.Y. 1847): — Western Missions and Missionaries (1863, 12mo): — Reisen in den Felsengebirgen, etc. (St. Louis, 1865). See Appletons' Cyclop.; Allibone, Dict. of Brit. and Amer. Authors, s.v.
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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