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 McCLINTOCK

McCLINTOCK

Ohio and Mississippi river, 1833-34. He resumed his law practice and established the Democrat a.t Shawneetown, 111., in 1835, and was a representa- tive in the Illinois legislature, 183(>-42, where he defended President Jackson against an attack by Governor Duncan. He was married in 1843 to Sarah, daughter of Colonel Dunlap, of Jackson- ville, III. He was apiwinted by the legislature commissioner and treasurer of the Illinois and Michigan canal. He was a presidential elector on the Van Buren and Johnson ticket in 1840, and a Democratic representative from Illinois in the 28th, 29th. 30th. 3l8t, 36th and 37th congresses, 1843-51, and 1859-61. He resigned his seat in the 37th congress to enter the U.S. volunteer army. He raised a brigade made up of Illinois men with the aid of N. B. Buford, John A. Logan and Philip B. Fouke, and was appointed brigadier- general of volunteers by President Lincoln in 1861. At the battle of Belmont he commanded the Ist brigade of Grant's army, and at the capture of Fort Donelson the Ist division made up of Ogles- by*8, W. H. L. Wallace's and William R. Morri- son's brigades. He was promoted major-general of volunteers, March 21. 1862. He commanded the 1st division. Army of the Tennessee, at the battle of Shiloh, April 6-7, 1862. In the Vicks- burg campaign. May 1-July 4, 1863, he com- manded the 13th army corps. He took part in the engagements at Port Gibson, April 30 to May 1. 1862; Champion Hills, May 16, 1863; and Black River Bridge, May 17, 1863, and at the siege of Vicksburg. He was charged by General Grant with not supporting the troops engaged in the battle of Champion Hills, ahd his action caused General Grant to countermand an order he had given General Hovey on the field, and McClernand was relieved of his command soon after the surrender of Vicksburg. He was rein- stated by President Lincoln, Jan. 31, 1864, but resigned from the army on account of ill health, Nov. 30, 1864, and resumed the practice of law at Springfield, III., in 1865. He was circuit judge for the Sangamon district, 1870-73 ; chairman of the Democratic national convention at St. Louis, Mo., in 1876, and was appointed a member of the Utah commission by President Cleveland in 1886. He died in Springfield, III., Sept. 20. 1900.

McCLINTOCK, John, educator, was born in Philadelphia. Pa.. Oct. 27, 1814 : son of John and Martha (McMackin) McClintock. natives of Ire- land. He studied at Wesleyan university. Conn., for a short time in 1831 ; was a clerk in Philadel- phia and bookkeef>er in the Methodist Book Con- cern, New York city. 18'>8-32. and was graduated from the University of Pennsylvania. A.B.. 1835, A.M., 1838. He entered the Philadelphia Confer- ferenoe of the Methodist Episcopal church in 1835 ; was assistant professor of mathematics in

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Dickinson college, 1836-39, and professor of an- cient classics, 1840-48. He was editor of the Metfuxlist Review, 1848-56 ; a me^pber of the gen- eral conferences of 1856 and 1868 ; delegate to the Evangelical alliance, Berlin. 1856; fraternal dele- gate to the Wesleyan Methodist conference of England, and to the Irish, French and German conferences,

1856, and the same year he was trans- ferred to the New York conference. He was president elect of Troy university, 1857-58 ; declined the presidency of Wes- leyan university in

1857, and was sta- tioned at St. Paul's church, New York, 1857-60. He was mar- ried in 1836 to Caro- line, daughter of Jabez Wakeman, of Jersey City, N.J., and secondly in 1857 to Catharine Wilkins (Stevenson) Emory, daughter of Dr. George Stevenson, of Pittsburgh, Pa., and widow of Robert Emory (q.v.). He was pastor of the American chapel at Paris under the American and Foreign Christian Union, 1860-63, and ad- vocated in France and England tiie cause of the north. He was corresponding editor of the Meth- odist, 1860-64; was chairman of the centenary committee of Methodism, 1866, and in co-opera- tion with Daniel Drew, he established the Drew Theological seminary at Madison. N.J.,and was president of the seminary and professor of prac- tical theology, 1867-70. The honorary degree of D.D. was conferred on him by the University of Pennsylvania in 1848, and that of LL.D. by Rut- gers college in 1866. He edited Sketches of Eminent Methodist Ministers (1854) : Bungen er's '* History of the Council of Trent" and six centenary hymns by George Lansing Taylor (1866); wrote, with Prof. George R. Crooks, .A First Book in Latin (1846), and A First Book in Greek (1848) ; and is the author of : A Second Book in Greek (1850); A -Second Book in Latin (1853), and The Temporal Power of the Pope (1855). and, with .James Strong, Tlie Cyclopcedia of Bil>lical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Litera- ture (12 vols., 1867-82). He lived to see only three volumes published but his name is attached to the whole series. He wrote the introdu(^tion to "Anecdotes of the Wesleys" by ,T. B. Wakeley (1869). Living Words or Umrritten Sermons of the Late John McClintock, D.D., LL.D., with preface by Bishop James, was published in 1871, and Lec- tures, by tJie late John McClintock, D.D., LL.D, on