Stark, Jedediah Lathrop, a Dutch Reformed minister, was born at New London, Conn., March 6, 1793. He was a graduate of Brown University in the class of 1818. He spent two years in theological study, and in the autumn of 1820 was ordained pastor of the West Parish Church (Congregational) in Brattleborough, Vt., where he preached for fourteen years (1820-34), and then removed to Buel, N.Y., and was pastor of a Church in that place eight years (1834-42). In 1842 he accepted an invitation to become the minister of the Dutch Reformed Church in Mohawk, N.Y., where he remained sixteen years (1842-58). The last four years of his life he was unable to perform much ministerial service on account of ill health. He died at Mohawk, N.Y., Oct. 18, 1862. (J.C.S.)
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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