John P. Richmond
John Plastis Richmond (August 7, 1811 – August 28, 1895) was an American Methodist Episcopalian priest and politician who served in New York, Illinois, Mississippi, the Pacific Northwest, and South Dakota during the 19th century. Early life Richmond was born in Middletown, Maryland on August 7, 1811. His father's name was Francis. At 15, Richmond was converted and became a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He attended the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia and graduated with a medical degree in 1833. He started to practice medicine in Middletown in 1834 and was licensed to exhort by his church. In 1835 he moved to Mississippi to practice medicine and on October 14, 1835 in Madison County, Mississippi he married America Walker Talley, the widow of Alexander Talley. Alexander was a prominent member of the church and was superintendent of the Choctaw Indian Mission. In April 1836, the pair moved to Rushville, Illinois, where Richmond preached. Over the following t ...
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Methodist Episcopalian
The Methodist Episcopal Church (MEC) was the oldest and largest Methodist denomination in the United States from its founding in 1784 until 1939. It was also the first religious denomination in the US to organize itself on a national basis. In 1939, the MEC reunited with two breakaway Methodist denominations (the Methodist Protestant Church and the Methodist Episcopal Church, South) to form the Methodist Church. In 1968, the Methodist Church merged with the Evangelical United Brethren Church to form the United Methodist Church. The MEC's origins lie in the First Great Awakening when Methodism emerged as an evangelical revival movement within the Church of England that stressed the necessity of being born again and the possibility of attaining Christian perfection. By the 1760s, Methodism had spread to the Thirteen Colonies, and Methodist societies were formed under the oversight of John Wesley. As in England, American Methodists remained affiliated with the Church of England, b ...
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