STRICKLAND, William Peter, clergyman, born in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, 17 August, 1809; died in Ocean Grove, New Jersey, 15 July, 1884. He was educated at Ohio university, Athens, Ohio, from which he afterward received the degree of D.D. In 1832 he entered the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal church in Ohio, and, after serving in the itinerancy and also for five years as an agent of the American Bible society, he removed to New York in 1856, where he was connected with the Methodist book concern, and was an associate editor of the " Christian Advocate." From 1865 till 1874 he supplied the pulpit of the Presbyterian church in Bridgehampton, L. I., and then he was installed as its regular pastor, but three years later he resigned on account of his wife's health. Afterward he labored as an evangelist. In 1862 he served as chaplain of the 48th New York regiment at Port Royal, South Carolina Dr. Strickland published "History of the American Bible Society" (New York, 1849 ; continued to 1856, 1856); "History of the Missions of the Methodist Episcopal Church" (Cincinnati, 1850) ; "Genius and Mission of Methodism" (Boston, 1851) ; "Manual of Biblical Literature" (New York, 1853) ; "Light of the Temple" (Cincinnati, 1854); "The Astrologer of Chaldea, or the Life of Faith" (1855) ; "Christianity demonstrated by Facts" (1855) ; "Pioneers of the West" (New York, 1856); " The Pioneer Bishop, or the Life and Times of Francis Asbury" (1858) ; " Old Mackinaw, or the Fortress of the Lakes and its Surroundings" (Philadelphia, 1860); and "Life of Jacob Gruber" (New York, 1860). He also edited numerous volumes of sermons and other works, among them the "Autobiography of Peter Cartwright" (1856), and was editorially connected with several journals in the west, besides the one mentioned above.