Stone, Samuel, a Congregational minister, was born at Hertford, England, and was educated at Emanuel College, Cambridge. He then studied divinity under the instruction of Rev. Richard Blackerby. Being a Nonconformist, he resolved to seek the more congenial atmosphere of New England, and arrived in America Sept. 4, 1633. On Oct. 11 following a Church was organized at Newtown, Conn., of which he was ordained teacher, Mr. Hooker being ordained pastor. In June 1636, nearly the whole Church, including pastor and teacher, removed to Hartford, where Mr. Stone labored with Mr. Hooker for fourteen years, and then became sole pastor. This position he retained until his death, July 26, 1663. The latter part of his ministry was embittered by a violent controversy in the Church, originating in a dispute on some ecclesiastical topic between himself and a Mr. Goodwin, a ruling elder. The origin of the misunderstanding is unknown. Mr. Stone published a Discourse on the Logical Notions of a Congregational Church (Lond. 1652); and left in MS. a work against Antinomianism, and a body of divinity. See Sprague, Annals of the Amer. Pulpit, 1, 37.
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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