Werder, Peter a Baptist preacher, was born in 1728, and ordained in May 1751, at Warwick, R.I. The first nineteen years of his ministry were spent in that vicinity. He removed in 1770 to a Rhode Island settlement, then known as New Providence Grant within the present limits of Cheshire, Massachusetts, where he labored for thirty-eight years, preaching his last sermon on the Sunday before his death, February 21, 1808. He was an influential and successful preacher, and venerated as a father among the churches of his faith in Western Massachusetts. See Mass. Bapt. Mag. 2:348.
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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