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From: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition | Date: 2008 | Copyright information

James McGready , c.1758-1817, American Presbyterian minister and evangelist, b. Pennsylvania. His preaching (1797-99) in Logan co., Ky., began the great religious revival which in 1800 swept over the South and the West. Gatherings encamped for McGready's revivals were the forerunners of later camp meetings . Some of his methods were questioned by the Presbyterian Church; in the division that resulted, the Cumberland Presbyterian Church was established. Later McGready was received back into his presbytery and sent (1811) to Indiana to found churches.

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