Taylor, Joseph van Sommern a missionary of India, was born at Bellary, Southern India, in 1820, where his father was a missionary of the London Society. He was educated at the Bishop's College in Calcutta and at Glasgow, graduating at the latter place in 1845. In the same year, having been accepted by the London Missionary Society, he left England for Gujerat, where he labored for thirty-four years, the last twenty-one years in connection with the Presbyterian Church of Ireland. He died in 1881. Mr. Taylor, besides translating the Confession of
Faith into Gujerati, wrote two of the best grammars in that language. The natives of Gujerat are indebted to him for a History of the Christian Church, founded on that of Dr. Barth, as well as for a Book of Christian Practise and a Manual of Devotion. Several of the best tracts in the list of the Gujerat Tract and Book Society are from his pen. He also translated the Shorter Catechism, and was engaged at the time of his death on a translation of the Philosophy of the Plan of Salvation, which he left unfinished. (B.P.)
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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