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The father of outlaw John Wesley Hardin, James "Gip" Hardin, was a Methodist preacher and circuit rider in the mid-1800s. Hardin's father traveled over much of central Texas on his preaching circuit until 1869 when he and his family settled in Sumpter, Trinity County, Texas , where he established a school – also named for John Wesley, the ...
Robert Sayers Sheffey (July 4, 1820 – August 30, 1902) was an American Methodist evangelist and circuit-riding preacher, renowned for his eccentricities and power in prayer, who ministered to, and became part of the folklore of, the Appalachian region of southwest Virginia, southern West Virginia and eastern Tennessee.
Illustration from The Circuit Rider: A Tale of the Heroic Age by Edward Eggleston depicting a Methodist circuit rider on horseback. An itinerant preacher (also known as an itinerant minister) is a Christian evangelist who preaches the basic Christian redemption message while traveling around to different groups of people within a relatively short period of time. [1]
As with most early Methodist preachers, he was a circuit-rider and traveled from Cainhoy, South Carolina, [5] to Boston, Massachusetts, usually in attendance with Asbury. [3] Having grown used to the relative freedom of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he was at first unwilling to return south to Virginia and the Carolinas. Asbury was generally ...
Walter T. Colquitt – circuit-riding Methodist preacher who served in the US House of Representatives and the Senate. Thomas Mears Eddy – pastor; William Edwards (architect) – Welsh designer of bridges; Edward Eggleston – also author; Calvin Fairbank – abolitionist; Robert Newton Flew – theologian and ecumenist
1880 depiction of a Methodist circuit rider. In 1774, Littlejohn listened to sermons from several locally notable Methodist ministers including John King and the circuit rider John Sigman. Sigman's preaching especially affected Littlejohn, who wrote "His words got to my heart as never any did before; tears gushed from my eyes as voluntary as ...
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Eli P. Farmer (February 15, 1794 – February 5, 1881) [1] was an American pioneer preacher for the Methodist Episcopal Church and a circuit rider on the Indiana frontier from 1825 to 1839 during the Second Great Awakening. He also served in the Indiana Senate from 1843 to 1845.