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Peter Cartwright (September 1, 1785 – September 25, 1872) was an American Methodist revivalist in the Midwest, as well as twice an elected legislator in Illinois. Cartwright, a Methodist missionary, helped start the Second Great Awakening, personally baptizing twelve thousand converts. Opposed to slavery, Cartwright moved from Kentucky to Illinois, and was elected to the lower house of the Illinois General Assembly in 1828 and 1832. In 1846 Abraham Lincoln defeated Cartwright for a seat in the United States Congress. As a Methodist circuit rider, Cartwright rode circuits in Kentucky and Illinois, as well as Tennessee, Indiana and Ohio. His ''Autobiography'' (1856) made him nationally prominent. ==Career== Born in Amherst County (now Nelson County, Virginia), between Findlay Mountain and Purgatory Swamp, soon after his birth, Cartwright's family moved to what was then Kentucky County, now Logan County, Kentucky. In 1801, at the age of 15, Peter was converted at a camp meeting associated with the Revival of 1800. a series of sacrament meetings conducted by Presbyterian, James McGready and other Presbyterian and Methodist ministers. He subsequently joined the Methodist Episcopal Church. He became a preacher in 1802 and was ordained in 1806 by Francis Asbury and William McKendree.〔 In 1812, Cartwright was appointed a presiding elder (now District Superintendent), and he served in that office for the next thirty-five years. In 1808, Cartwright married Frances Gaines. Together they had two sons and seven daughters, one of whom, Cynthia, died on the journey to Illinois. Cartwright served as a military chaplain during the War of 1812. His hatred of slavery in Kentucky, and his failure to convince the slaveholders to free their slaves, led him to move to Illinois in 1824, where slavery was illegal. In his ''Autobiography'' he said that in Illinois he, 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Peter Cartwright (revivalist)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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