CARTWRIGHT, PETER (17851872)

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CARTWRIGHT, PETER (17851872) , American Methodist Episcopal preacher, was born on the 1st of September 1785 in Amherst county, Virginia. His father, a veteran of the War of Independence, took his family to Kentucky in 1790, and lived near

Lancaster

LANCASTER
LANCASTER,
HOUSE
- HOUSE
- HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in
  Gothic
  - GOTHIC
  it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)
OF
LANCASTER, JOHN OF GAUNT
LANCASTER, JOSEPH (1778-1838)
LANCASTER, SIR JAMES (f1. 1591—1618)
THOMAS
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THOMAS
, EARL OF (c. 1277-1322)

until 1793, and then until 18o2 in Logan county near the

Tennessee

TENNESSEE

line. Peter received little education, and was a gambler at cards and horse-racing until 18or, when he heard John Page preach. In June he was received into the church; in May 18o2 was licensed as a regular exhorter, becoming known as the " Kentucky Boy "; in the autumn of 18o2 was licensed to form the Livingston circuit around the mouth of the Cumberland river; in 18o6 was ordained deacon by Bishop Asbury, and in ,8o8 presiding elder by Bishop McKendree, under whose direction he had studied theology. He was presiding elder of the Wabash

district

DISTRICT

in 1812, and of Green river

district

DISTRICT

in 1813-1816, and, after four years on circuit in Kentucky and two as presiding elder of the Cumberland district, was transferred in 1823 to the Illinois .conference, in which he was presiding elder of various districts until 1869. Up to 1856 he preached some 14,600 times, received some Io,000 persons into the church, and baptized some 12,000 persons. He died near Pleasant Plains, Sangamon county, Illinois, on the 25th of September 1872. He was a typical back-woods preacher, an able, vigorous speaker, and a racy writer.
See the Autobiography of Peter

Cartwright

, the Backwoods Preacher, edited by W. P. Strickland (New

York

YORK
YORK (
HOUSE
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  Gothic
  - GOTHIC
  it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)
OF)
YORK, EDMUND OF
LANGLEY
- LANGLEY, SAMUEL PIERPONT (1834-1906)
, DUKE OF (1341-1402)
YORK, EDWARD
YORK, FREDERICK
AUGUSTUS
- AUGUSTUS (a name 1 derived from Lat. augeo, increase, i.e. venerable, majestic, Gr. Ee0avr6s)
, DUKE OF (1763-1827)
YORK, RICHARD, DUKE

, 1856).

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