Autobiography of Peter Cartwright - Paperback

by Peter Cartwright (Author)

Peter Cartwright (September 1, 1785 - September 25, 1872) was an American Methodist revivalist and politician in Illinois. He helped start the Second Great Awakening and personally baptized twelve thousand converts. In 1828 and again in 1832 he was elected to the lower house of the Illinois General Assembly. As a Methodist Circuit Rider, Cartwright rode circuits in Tennessee and Kentucky.