Background
M’Clintock, John was born on October 27, 1814 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of John and Martha (M’Mackin) M’C.
M’Clintock, John was born on October 27, 1814 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of John and Martha (M’Mackin) M’C.
Graduated from the University Pennsylvania, 1835.
1 son, Emory. Admitted on trial to Philadelphia Conference of Methodist Episcopal Church, 1835, ordained elder, 1840. Pastor in Jersey City, New Jersey, 1835-1836, Saint Paul’s Church, New York City, 1856-1860, American Chapel, Paris, France, 1860-1864. Assistant professor mathematics Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, 1836-1837, professor, 1837-1840, professor classical languages, 1840-1848.
Editor Methodist Quarterly Review, 1848-1856.
President Wesleyan University, 1851-1855, Troy University, 1855-1862. Delegate British Wesleyan Conference, London, also conference of Evangelical Alliance, Berlin, Germany, 1856.
Chairman planning committee for centennial celebration American Methodism, 1864-1866. 1st president Drew Theological Seminary, 1867-1870.
Author: A First Book in Latin, 1846.
A First Book in Greek, 1848. A Second Book in Greek, 1850. A Second Book in Latin, 1853.
Sketches of Eminent Methodist Ministers, 1854.
The Temporal Power of the Pope, 1855. Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature, 1867.
Married Caroline A. Wakeman, 1837. Married second, Catharine West. Emory, October 1851.