a Methodist Episcopal minister, was born at Martinsburg, Berkeley Co., Va., Jan. 4,1823. He received a private preparation for college, but his father's resources being too limited to assist him further, he was apprenticed to a printer in his native town, and, while thus employed, improved every available opportunity for extending his knowledge. He was soon after converted, and in 1845 entered the East Baltimore Conference; in 1859, became professor in Irving Female College; in 1864, president of Emory Female College, of which he was the founder, and died in Carlisle, Pa., Sept. 8, 1864. Mr. Chambers was conscientious, intensely patriotic, a bold, fierce denouncer of evil; possessed an iron will and deep piety. See Minutes of Annual Conferences, 1865, p. 254.
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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