Enoch Merrill Pingree

Enoch Merrill Pingree (1817-1849) was a Universalist minister, born in Littleton, New Hampshire, and educated at the Methodist seminary in Newbury, Vermont, where he defended his Universalist convictions against considerable opposition. He began preaching in 1837 and spent his career in the Ohio Valley, ultimately as pastor of the First Universalist Society in Louisville, Kentucky. He was best known as a debater, meeting the Baptist John L. Waller at Warsaw, Kentucky, in 1844 and the Presbyterian N. L. Rice at Cincinnati in 1845 in debates that were afterward published. He died in Louisville on January 6, 1849, at the age of thirty-two, and a memorial volume of his life and writings was compiled by Henry Jewell in 1850.

Enoch Pingree — the meteoric western debater whose memorial volume is also in this collection — against John L. Waller, a leading Kentucky Baptist, in a full formal debate at Louisville. Days of alternating speeches, taken down and published: the western debate culture at its highest pitch, with both champions at the top of their powers.

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Enoch Merrill Pingree burned briefly and brightly: a Universalist debater and pastor in Cincinnati and Louisville who met the orthodox champions of the West in a string of celebrated contests and died at thirty-one. Jewell's memorial volume, with selections from his writings, preserves the meteor of western Universalism — and reads as a companion to the western debates elsewhere in this collection.

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