a Reformed (Dutch) minister, grandson of Cornelius, was born at Schenectady, N.Y., in 1790. He graduated from Union College in 1811, and from the New Brunswick Theological Seminary in 1814; was licensed in the latter year, and preached at Belleville, N.J., until 1828, when he became agent for the New Brunswick Seminary for one year, and thereafter successively pastor at Schodack (1829, including Coeymans in 1830), New Baltimore (1834), Onisquethan (1839, including New Salem in 1843), and Jerusalem (1845-57); in 1864 he engaged in the service of the Christian Commission, at Nashville, Tenn. He died May 31, 1882. Dr. Van Santvoord published several sermons. See Corwin, Manual of the Ref. Church in America, 3d ed. page 521.
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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