Sangamon County IL Archives Biographies.....Cartwright, Peter 1785 - 1872
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Author: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary

CARTWRIGHT, Peter, clergyman, was born in Amherst county, Va., Sept. 1, 1785. 
About 1790 his father, who was a soldier in the revolutionary army, moved to 
Logan county, Ky., then a wild and unsettled region. He received a meagre 
education, was converted at the age of sixteen, and became a local preacher. 
In 1803 he became a regular preacher, and was ordained an elder in 1806 by 
Bishop Asbury. In 1823 he moved to Illinois, where he settled in Sangamon 
county, being twice elected to represent that district in the state 
legislature. He was a delegate at all the conferences for many years. He was a 
Democrat in politics and opposed slavery. In 1846 he was a Democratic 
candidate for representative in Congress, but was defeated by Abraham Lincoln. 
He was for fifty years a presiding elder of the Methodist church, his quaint 
and forcible style of preaching was suited to the times and to the people 
among whom he labored, and he was both feared and beloved. He published 
several pamphlets, of which his Controversy with the Devil (1853), and an 
Autobiography of Rev. Peter Cartwright were the most notable. He died near 
Pleasant Plains, Sangamon county, Ill., Sept. 25, 1872.

Additional Comments:
Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans.
Vol. I-X. Rossiter Johnson, editor. Boston MA: The Biographical Society. 1904.

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