John Sterling
The Nuttall Encyclopedia [1]
A friend of Carlyle's, born at Kames Castle, Bute, son of Captain Sterling of the Times ; studied at Glasgow and Cambridge; a man of brilliant parts and a liberal-minded, but of feeble health; had Julius Hare for tutor at Cambridge, and became Hare's curate at Hurstmonceaux for eight months; wrote for reviews, and projected literary enterprises, but achieved nothing; spent his later days moving from place to place hoping to prolong life; formed an acquaintanceship with Carlyle in 1832; became an intelligent disciple, and believed in him to the last; Hare edited his papers, and wrote his life as a clergyman, and Carlyle, dissatisfied, wrote another on broader lines, and by so doing immortalised his memory (1806-1843).
Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature [2]
a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, was born in Ireland in 1810, and emigrated to this country in early life. At the age of seventeen he united with the Church, and in 1844 was licensed to preach. He was received into the North Ohio Conference in 1847, and traveled six or seven years, when, because of ill health, he located. He was afterwards admitted into the Central Ohio Conference, where he labored several years. His death occurred April 2, 1863. See Minutes of Annual Conferences, 1863, p. 168.
