Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1872-10-26
Peter Cartwright.

older than the photograph, the Pro
testant Episcopal Prayer. Book, the
American Postoffice, the telegraph, our
oldest railway, ocean steamers, and the
Constitution of the United States.
He was contemporary to John Wes-
ley, George Washington, John Han
cock. Patrick Henry, Thomas Jefferson,
Henry Clay, James Madison, John Ran
dolph, Roger Sherman, Richard Henry
Lee, and other shining names. He
came into the world before Abraham
Lincoln. Ste, hen A. Douglas, Theodore
Frelinghuysen, Thomas Ewing, Rufus
Choate, Edward Everett, ana others
Who made their records long ago.
When he was born the Union had but
thirteen States, it was still under the
Articles of Confederation, and the Con
tinental Congress was in session in New
York city. When the first census was
taken, five years after his birth, the
country had population OF less than
4,000,0O0.
His long life of 81 years seems short
one, but the period is more golden than
tie seveuty-tive years that witnessed
the invention of printing, the mariners
compass. gunpowder, the Reformation,
ana the mrS' 'lio',o'i ''I" i,-os
fopeiS. me pei'1a ' :" 49, nnJ
anu u, 20 n'' Is. ~" s,,,nnsa + an
He died rs old as the Republic, and all
his labor was given to Methodlsm, that
ministry of the Republic as sturdy and
vital as luritanism.
Az Hait",,s"' WI ~ VI Ia was corvnri.
was sun , ,,r," 81 , nan Mothod;st
co. IN iooi; we .han 20 600 ,non,bars
oh,i'I'i ii',' ie'o wa" 10y l,a, NH
anu ' NJ, WIZ "W ,u;,h;n tho natroniy.
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ing 'erfito'y y, sno w. 1e7o ~. wnrld
oeiote ms o, "eo IS ii 100, "a M,tho
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casu" p ls'',e, v "a1 AMI Mstho.
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lucAy "iiiosV VI .no ~ 1oo1 vt -
l'oon9 we ;o;aaa tho Methodist
cam w iP-il.e'.ns JIM ,,or l;no,,snd
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W eHnoi' W "ua Wv R;shon Ashn,v in
pins.i'io1 80" Iy;i aldor h., p;,bon
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NJ. ns Iny ins"s " on, sos'J' u,
Nue'''il''lon' VI e' ~ a so"Heu s'ns
WHY ~ .b NUN oe ' ho ,;,tn1'nm fon H.
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mu.'I ~" . a,har pntor bic 1905 i,
VI 'n Ia o; - ~ Mi l, os.p 40,
Lano haan ash.y,ad ia hanan Wast
n n"'e o Urm .' vhan tow dol,ar.
nar vaan mas snaro.,u nndn.n,v mi'a,
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,ha AtIant;o ,vhnn - I,n stn',', ~,
l;tohan,abIn na. an ~ ai;,;hln n,lhl, IL
,hen s;ro,;t was as lorna os Nau En
''iasl aaI ~. Ws,Laa;et oa Lo.a
ssnaonv,r, for owarnth;n.r ,rotosara hor
,;hio ~ n ,o rIis pa,ar ,,a no or
t ,D, " ldd raad', and ;rrol;st;h,o 10,
10 R.nta,. ShaLars ,,,n.alv,;na Ran
fists '' IIuivsrs.,I'sts nd d'o n,:crnH, lon,
sinners Of that date came eageriv saw
him anactuallv and ware cononeyed ~
,h ,l hoart., aon ,|n ma s,orn 81 III; !,
iite !. st;rr;na Militant ;ndustr;onn do
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,Ud oI,ynns w. ,r,nn,nnaut >3' VI '''''>
Ha " wa, trno a~n.tlo and tho,o,
o1sa a rn',,,h 40 .r aI Ch,,,oh j., aa",;a,
ann, ro,I5 honn ,laoad h;,, - hom an
and.r nf ,.ro,,naJ e n.t ohnr,,;,.,
sa;nts IVA raonra ,,r;,,tad ~ IeSf
nanlls ILL., ~, 1901 H.,
son,a nrat.n,;,,t oI hns,iar Ita sa ~,
,nnl,, t,hn, ha b,J a1nn"l,, - olS !
elans, oro,t n' .',o,,a ', a;:t m"'I'eu
rloa;uad IN noo 1900 ;rtn H. -