Packard, Theophilus D.D. a Congregational minister, was born March 4, 1769, at North Bridgewater, Mass. He graduated at Dartmouth College in 1796, and was ordained pastor in. Shelburne, Mass., Feb., 20, 1799, where he remained until his death, which occurred Sept. 17, 1855. He published Sermons in 1806, 1808; 1813, and 1815; and in 1820 the Life and Death of (his son) Isaac T. Packard.; See Sprague, Annals, 2. 408; Allibone, Dict. of Brit. and Amer. Authors, s.v.
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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