a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. His early life is unknown. He was transferred from the Tennessee to the Florida Conference in 1850, and served faithfully about one year, when failing health necessitated his superannuation. He then studied medicine, and became quite successful in its practice. He entered the army of the Confederates some time in 1861 and was soon after taken sick, and died at Gainesville, Florida, in 1862. Mr. Valentine was a graduate of West Point, a fine scholar, characterized by strong, logical reasoning powers, and pure language as a preacher, and as a pulpit orator was surpassed b few. See Minutes of Annual Conferences of M. E. Church, South (1862), p. 410.
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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