Page:Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography (1900, volume 4).djvu/109

Rh afterward led the force that stormed and captured Arkansas Post, and was at Port Gibson, Champion Hills, Big Black River, and Vicksburg. He led the 13th army corps until he was relieved in July, 1868, and resigned from thearmvon 30 Nov., 1864.

McCLINTOCK, Sir Francis Leopold, British explorer, b. in Dundalk, Ireland, in 1819. He en- tered the navy at the age of twelve, and for his conduct in recovering the " Gorgon," when it was stranded near Montevideo, was promoted to a lieutenancy in 1845. He accompanied Sir James Ross in one of the three arctic expeditions sent out in search of Sir John Franklin in the spring of 1848, and early in the following year joined another ex- pedition under Capt. Austin. It was his fortune, in August, 1850, to see at Cape Riley the fii'st traces of the missing mariners. In April, 1851, while the ships were fast in the ice in Crozier chan- nel, he began a sledge journey of eighty days along the north shore of Parry sound, travelling 760 miles, and reaching the most westerly point that had yet been attained from the east in the arctic regions. The comparative perfection to which sledge-trav- elling has since been carried is due in great part to the improvements which he effected. The squadron returned to England in the autumn of the same year, and Lieut. McClintock was at once promoted to the rank of commander. The following spring saw him in charge of the *' Intrepid," one of the five vessels sent out to the polar regions under Sir Edward Belcher. In accordance with instructions from the admiralty, he sailed, in company with Capt. Kellett, toward Melville island in search of McClure, whom he rescued from a three years" im- prisonment in the ice; but he was subsequently compelled to abandon his own ship with three others of Belcher's fleet, the whole expedition reaching home in September, 1854. McClintock's services were recognized by his promotion to the rank of captain, but he did not obtain active em- ployment until Lady Franklin offered him in 1857 the command of the expedition that was fitted out by her, which resulted in solving the mystery of Sir John Franklin's fate. On his return in 1859 from this important voyage. Captain McClintock was received with great enthusiasm. The British universities conferred on him their highest de- grees, the corporation of London voted him the freedom of the city, the queen granted him the full pay of captain in the navy for the two years he was absent, and Lady Franklin presented to him the vessel in which he had made his voyage. He was knighted, 23 Feb., 1860, and in the spring of the same year appointed by the government to survey a deep-sea route for a proposed North At- lantic telegraph. He was made a rear-admiral in the fleet in October, 1871, and vice-admiral in 1877. From 1879 till 1882 he served as commander-in- chief of the North American and West Indian station. In 1884 he became full admiral. He is the author of " The Voyage of the ' Fox ' in the Arctic Seas " (London, 1860), which has passed through five editions.

McCLINTOCK, John, educator, b. in Philadelphia, Pa., 27 Oct., 1814; d. in Madison, Morris CO., N. J., 4 March, 1870. He was graduated at the University of Pennsylvania in 1835. Before his graduation he had begun to preach in the New Jersey conference of the Methodist Episcopal church. In 1836 he was appointed professor of mathematics in Dickinson college, Carlisle, Pa., where he remained twelve years, exchanging the mathematical chair in 1848 for that of Greek and Latin. In 1846 he began, in connection with George R. Crooks, a series of text-books of those languages, in which the method of " imitation and repetition," now generally used, was first intro- duced. In 1848 he was elected by the general con- ference editor of the "Methodist Quarterly Re- view," and this place he filled for eight years, dur- ing which time he gave that periodical a high literary and scholarly character. While in his hands the " Review " rendered especial service by its examination of the positive philosophy of Comte, and the detection of its errors. These es- says attracted the attention of the French philoso- pher, and led to correspondence between him and their author. In 1856 Dr. McClintock was ap- pointed, with Bishop Simpson, a delegate to the Wesleyan Methodist conference of England, and was also present in a similar capacity at the Berlin meeting of the Evangelical alliance the same year. Returning to the United States, he became pastor of St. Paul's church. New York city, in 1857, where he soon became known as one of the eloquent preachers of the metropolis. His charge of the church expiring by limitation in 1860, he sailed for Europe in June to become pastor of the American chapel in Paris, under the auspices of the Ameri- can and foreign Christian union. Here he re- mained during the civil war, and did good service in diffusing information regarding the merits of the struggle. In these efi'orts he secured the aid of the Comte de Gasparin in France and the Rev. William Arthur in England. He also kept his- countrymen informed of the fiuetuations of Euro- pean opinion by letters to the New York " Meth- odist." After his return in 1864 he was again as- signed to the pastorate of St. Paul's church, but, owing to failing health, he was compelled to resign at the end of a year. In 1866 he was made chair- man of the central centenary committee having in charge the centennial commemoration of the ori- gin and history of American Methodism. Daniel Drew, of New York, signified his intention of founding, in connection with that event, a biblical and theological school, and Dr. McClintock was chosen its first president. This institution, at Madison, N. J., known as Drew theological semi- nary, was opened in 1867. Dr. McClintock's style as a writer was characterized by clearness, direct- ness, and precision. He received the degree of D. D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1848, and that of LL. D. from Rutgers in 1866. His chief literary work, to which a great part of the last twenty years of his life was devoted, is the " Gyclopccdia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesi- astical Literature " (12 vols., New York). It was begun by him in 1853, in conjunction with James Strong, but the first volume did not appear until 1867, and the fourth was only partially prepared at the time of his death. He also published a transla- tion of Neander's " Life of Christ," in connection with Prof. Carolus E. Blumenthal (New York, 1847) ; " An Analysis of ' Watson's Theological In- stitutes ' " (1850) ; " Sketches of Eminent Methodist Ministers " (1852) ; " The Temporal Power of the Pope " (1853) ; and a translation of Bungener's " History of the Council of Trent " (1855). Since his death have been issued " Living Words," a vol- ume of his sermons (1870), and " Lectures on The- ological Encyclopasdia and Methodology " (1873). See his " Life and Letters " by Rev. George R. Crooks, D. D. (New York, 1876).

MACCLINTOCK, Samuel, clergyman, b. in Bedford, Mass., 1 May. 1732; d. iii Greenland, N. H., 27 April, 1804. He was graduated at Princeton in 1751, and in 1756 was ordained pastor of a Congregational church at Greenland, N. H., where he spent the remainder of his life, except the period