Starr, John Wesley (1), a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, was born in Wilke's County, Ga., Aug. 7, 1806, and associated himself with the Church when fourteen years of age. He was licensed to preach Sept. 17, 1830, and in 1833 was admitted into the Georgia Conference. In 1839 he was transferred to the Alabama Conference; superannuated in 1848; agent for the Oak Bowery Female Institute in 1849; in 1866 again superannuated, and so remained until his death in Bibb County, Feb. 24, 1870. See Minutes of Annual Conferences of the M.E. Church, South, 1870, p. 438.
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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