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Peter Cartwright (1785–1872)
Cartwright, Peter. An American controversialist and sermonist; born in Virginia, Sept. 1, 1785; died on Sept. 25, 1872. He was a Methodist clergyman, of great power and eccentricity, and preached, it is said, fully 15,000 sermons. He published ‘A Controversy with the Devil’; ‘Autobiography of a Backwoods Preacher’; ‘Fifty Years a Presiding Elder.’