Sons of thunder, 1975.

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Sons of thunder, 1975.

This unpublished manuscript with handwritten editing notes contains biographies of twenty-one prominent Methodist circuit riders in America, including Francis Asbury, Benjamin Abbott, James Axley, Peter Cartwright,John A. Collins, Valentine Cook, Lorenzo Dow, James Bradley Finley, Jacob Gruber, Billy Hibbard, John Kobler, Jesse Lee, William McKendree, Richmond Nolley, Caleb B. Pedicord, James Quinn, Asa Shinn, Nicholas Snethen, John Strange, Thomas Ware, and Jacob Young. The section entitled, "These also served," contains brief sketches of thirteen lesser known circuit riders, including Robert Strawbridge, Jesse Walker, David Young, Learner Blackman, Henry Burchett, Benjamin Young, William Burke, Tobias Gibson, William Gassaway, James Jenkins, Samuel Parker, Henry Smith, and William G. Grownlow.

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Blackman, Learner, 178?-1815.

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Strange, John, 1789-1832.

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Snethen, Nicholas, 1769-1845

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Young, David, d.1858.

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Finley, James B. (James Bradley), 1781-1856

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Physician and Methodist preacher of North Carolina. From the description of Letter, 1802, May 14 : Charleston, to Charles J. Colcock. (Duke University). WorldCat record id: 35070347 ...

Dow, Lorenzo, 1777-1834

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Methodist missionary and writer; landowner. From the description of Lorenzo Dow papers, 1815-1878. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 166428817 Lorenzo Dow (October 16, 1777-February 2, 1834) was a popular, eccentric American itinerant preacher and an important figure in the Second Great Awakening. He was appointed a Methodist circuit preacher in New York in 1798, but after a missionary trip to Ireland he was never connected officially with the ministry of the Methodist Church, ...

Ware, Thomas, 1838-1863

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Collins, John A., 1769-1845.

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Quinn, James, 1772-1844

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Gruber, Jacob, 1778-1850

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Hughes, Jessie Hopwood, 1895-1978.

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Jessie Hopwood Hughes was born on March 13, 1895. Mrs. Hughes was married, but the identity of her husband is unknown. She was a member of the United Methodist Church in the Ashland District of the Kentucky Conference and a published author. Mrs. Hughes wrote the biography of Francis Newbery, "My son Francis," as well as the article, "Peter Cartwright: circuit rider," which appeared in the Methodist magazine, "Classmate." Jessie Hopwood Hughes died on November 14, 1978 and last resided in Ashlan...

Strawbridge, Robert, approximately 1732-1781

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Parker, Samuel Stillman, 1776-1811

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Gibson, Tobias T.

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Axley, James, 1776-1838.

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Pedicord, Caleb B.

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Burchett, Henry, d.1794.

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Young, Jacob, 1776-1859

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Cook, Valentine, 1765?-1820

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Cartwright, Peter, 1785-1872

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Cartwright was a circuit-riding Methodist minister in Illinois and other states, as well as an Illinois legislator. From the description of Land document, November 13, 1833. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 665070303 Methodist minister and circuit rider in Kentucky, Tennessee, Indiana, Ohio, and Illinois; member of Illinois House of Representatives (1828-1830, 1832-1834); resident of Sangamon County, Illinois. From the description of Gu...

Walker, Jesse, d.1835.

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Young, Benjamin Franklin

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Kobler, John F.

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Gassaway, William.

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Brownlow, William Gannaway, 1805-1877

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William G. Brownlow was a minister, newspaper publisher, and governor, who attacked the Confederacy after Tennessee seceded from the Union. He was forced to cease publishing and was imprisoned, but he was enventually freed and was escorted to Union lines in March 1862. He toured the North, stirring up support for East Tennessee Unionists and publishing books and articles, including his gubernatorial policies, which helped Tennessee become the first former Confederate state to be readmitted to th...

M'Kendree, William, 1757-1835

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William M'Kendree, the first American-born Methodist bishop, was born 6 July 1757, in King William County, Virginia, and died 5 March 1835, in Sumner County, Tennessee. He converted to Methodism (ca. 1776), became a deacon (1790) and elder (1791) of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and served in various circuits in Virginia, except for his service in South Carolina (1793) and in the Baltimore circuit (1798). He became a leader in the trans-Allegheny revival movement when he served as superintende...

Abbott, Benjamin, 1732-1796

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Jenkins, James F.

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Hibbard, Billy, 1771-1844

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Shinn, Asa, 1781-1853

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Lee, Jesse, 1758-1816

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Nolley, Richmond.

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Smith, Henry Monmouth, 1868-

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Asbury, Francis, 1745-1816

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Francis Asbury (1745-1816) was one of the first two bishops of the Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States. Born in England, he came to America in 1771; in 1784 he, with Thomas Coke, was named the head of the Methodist Church in America. There is a statue to his memory in Washington, DC, and in many towns and cities across America one may find an Asbury United Methodist Church. From the guide to the Francis Asbury Letters, 1811, (Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse ...