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INTRODUCTION TO THE FILE OF
WYOMING CONFERENCE PASTORS
The Wyoming
Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, serving congregations in
northeastern Pennsylvania and southern New York, was created in 1852 from the
southern part of the Oneida Conference.
In 1970 the Conference acquired the former Evangelical United Brethren
congregations within its boundaries.
This file attempts
to identify every pastor who was licensed by, ordained by, or served a church
within the Wyoming Conference from its creation in the Methodist Episcopal
Church in 1852, through its years in the Methodist Church and the United
Methodist Church until its dissolution in 2010.
At that time its Pennsylvania congregations were placed in the Central Pennsylvania
Conference (which was re-named the Susquehanna Conference) and its New York
congregations were placed in the newly-formed Upper New York Conference. Records of pastors who joined the Upper New
York Conference generally end in 2010, and further information on those pastors
can be obtained from the Upper New York Conference. Records of pastors who joined the Susquehanna
Conference in 2010 will be updated as time permits, and further information on
those pastors can be obtained from the Susquehanna Conference.
Oversimplified account of the territory embraced by the formed Wyoming Conference
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Prior
to 1810 the territory was mostly moved back and forth between the Baltimore and
Philadelphia Conferences, although some of the northern part was in the New
York Conference.
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1810
Genesee Conference formed.
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1829
Genesee Conference split; Oneida Conference formed.
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1852
Oneida Conference split; Wyoming Conference formed. At this point the Wyoming Conference is
predominantly in Pennsylvania, but including southern New York along the
Susquehanna River.
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1869
Oneida Conference abolished; its territory split between the Wyoming Conference
and the newly formed Central New York Conference. At this point the Wyoming Conference adds New
York territory to become almost evenly divided between Pennsylvania and New
York and attain essentially the boundaries it kept until being dissolved in
2010.
The following notes
will help clarify some of the notation and format.
(1) This file generally does not include pastors who served in the Wyoming Conference area before the formation of the Wyoming Conference in 1852 and were never members of the Wyoming Conference
(2) In general,
older terms have been entered using their modern equivalent. And so…
(a) “supernumerary” [unassigned, usually
for health reasons, but not old enough for
retired status] is rendered “on
leave.”
(b) “superannuated” is rendered
“retired.”
(c) “presiding elder” is
rendered “district superintendent”.
(3) All persons
documented to have served a church are listed in the same format. This is whether that person served as a lay
pastor, a local pastor, a supply pastor, a student pastor, or an itinerant
pastor – and whether that person was full-time or part-time.
NOTE: THIS IS A
WORK IN PROGRESS, ESPECIALLY FOR SUPPLY/LOCAL PASTORS WHO SERVED ONLY A FEW
YEARS. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION WILL BE
PLACED ON-LINE AS IT IS AVAILABLE, AND REQUESTS TO ADD OR UPDATE INFORMATION ON
PARTICULAR INDIVIDUALS WILL GALDLY BE ACCEPTED.
Born: 9-2-1887 Brooklyn NY married: Annabelle B. Matthews [8/24/1914]
Died: 12-31-1983 obit: [d. 8/3/1925]
married2: Edith C. Buell
1913 ordained, Congregational Church obit2: Wyoming Conference 1965, 251
1925 admitted on trial, Wyoming Conference
1927 ordained elder
Interment: Baptist Cemetery, North Ashford CT
Obit: Wyoming Conference 1984, 205
1909-14 student, Moody Bible Institute in Chicago IL
1913-14 Watson Park IL
1914-17 Hanover IL
1917-21 Bolton CT Congregational Church
1921-25 Eastford CT Congregational Church
1925 “transfer” to Wyoming Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church
1925-27 Glen Lyon (beginning 9/15/1925)
1927-33 Springville
1933-36 Moosic
1936-40 Meshoppen
1940-53 Lehman
1953-60 McClure
1960 retired
ABBOTT, WILLIAM PENN
Born:
12-31-1838 Plains PA married:
Elizabeth Wyatt
Died:
12-22-1878 Manhattan NY obit: [d.
11/22/1874]
Married2:
Mary Delia Archer
1860 license obit2:
[1856-1939]
1863 admitted on trial
1865 ordained deacon
Interment:
Hollenback Cemetery, Wilkes Barre PA
Obit: New York
Conference 1879, 40
1861-62 South
Canaan
1862-64 Broome
NY
1864-65 Spencer
NY
1865-66 Spencer
NY and Candor NY
1866 transfer
to Troy Conference
Note: The first Mrs. Abbott is the daughter of William
Wyatt. Following the death of William P.
Abbott, the second Mrs. Abbot married a Mr. Harold R. Miller. The Abbott church in Parsons was named for
W.P. Abbott in recognition of the fact that he was born near there, the borough
of Parsons (now part of Wilkes-Barre) having been created from Plains township
in 1876.
ABELL, ROBERT A.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
2005 admitted on trial, Wyoming Conference
2008 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
2003-04 Barton NY
2004-05 Barton NY and Halsey Valley NY
2005-06 not appointed
2006-08 student
2008-10 Candor NY
2010 charter
member of Upper New York Conference
ABRAHAMS, THOMAS S.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1864 admitted on trial, East Genesee Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1864-66 Lawrenceville
1866 discontinued
“transfer”
to Wyoming Conference
1874 transfer
to North Carolina Conference
Note: The 1887 Catalogue of Living Union College (NY) Alumni
lists hima as an 1859 graduate living as a clergyman in Trenton NJ. The 1905 Dickinson College Alumni Directory
lists Thomas S. Abrahams as a non-graduate member of the class of 1857 living
in Philadelphia PA. This surname also
appears as ABRAHAM.
ACE, GEORGE FRANK
Born: 6-14-1860 Auburn PA married:
Died: 8-30-1913 obit:
1886 admitted on trial
1888 ordained deacon
1890 ordained elder
Interment: Jersey
Hill Cemetery, Auburn Center PA
Obit:
1886-87 Maple
Grove
1887-90 Northmoreland
1890-91 Worcester
1891-93 Smyrna
1893-95 Morris
1895-97 Brooklyn
1897-99 Nicholson
1899-01 Lackawanna
[Old Forge]
1901 withdrew under charges
Note: The preferred designation is G. Frank Ace.
ACKLEY, CHARLES WILLIAM
Born: 3-31-1915 Lockwood NY married:
Frances Evelyn Tripp
Died: 3-7-2004 Springville NY obit: Upper New York Conference
2015, 592
1935 license, Wyoming Conference
1937 admitted on trial, Dakotas Conference
1941 ordained elder, New England Conference
(courtesy)
Interment: Prospect
Hill Cemetery, Sidney NY
Obit: Wyoming
Conference 2004, 203; Central New York Conference 2004, 331
1935 Lockwood
– Barton (beginning 4/29/1935)
1935-36 Davenport
Center (moved to Davenport in mid-year)
1936-37 Mt.
Upton (ending 12/31/1936)
1937-38 Garden
City, South Dakota Conference (beginning 1/1/1937)
1938-40 Gayville
– Volin, South Dakota Conference
1940-43 student
1943 transfer
to Central New York Conference
1943-45 Millerton
– Jackson Center
1945-48 Montour
Falls
1948-51 Mecklenberg-Enfield-Kennedys-Cayutaville
1951-58 South
Otselic – Pharsalia
1958-60 Warners
– Belle Isle
1960-66 director
of migrant ministries, New York State Council of Churches
1966-67 Nedrow
1967-71 Bridgeport
1971-73 Wayuga
1973-76 Westbury
Red Creek
1976-77 Elmira
Westside, Wyoming Conference
1977 retired
1983-85
Fleming
ACQUARONE, DAVID
Born: 3-31-1862 Savonna, Italy married: Irma Peruzzi
Died: 7-14-1933 Providence RI obit: New England Southern Conference 1958, 173
1886 license, Italian Free Church
1897 ordained, Presbyterian Church
Interment: Highland Memorial Park, Johnston RI
Obit: New England Southern Conference 1934, 136
1886-93 Italian Free Church
1893 immigrate to the United States
1897-05 Presbyterian Church
1905 “transfer” to Genesee Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church
1905-11 Rochester Italian Mission
1911 transfer to Northern New York Conference
1911-16 Utica Italian Mission
1916 transfer to Erie Conference
1916-18 New Castle Italian Mission
1918 transfer
to Wyoming Conference
1918-20 Wilkes-Barre
St. Paul’s Italian
1920 transfer
to New England Southern Conference
ADAMS, CHARLES M.
Born: 6-9-1885 Syracuse NY married:
Mabel Southard Porter
Died: 1-30-1978 Binghamton NY obit:
Wyoming Conference 1980, 307
1909 admitted on trial, Wyoming Conference
1911 ordained deacon
Interment: Glenwood
Cemetery, Afton NY
Obit: Wyoming
Conference 1978, 230
1908-09 East Worcester NY
1909-11 Westford NY
1911-13 Davenport NY
1913-17 Hartwick NY– Hyde Park NY
1917-18 New Berlin NY
1918-22 West Exeter NY
1922-23 Nichols NY
1923-26 Chenango Bridge NY
1926-28 Castle Creek NY
1928-33 Candor NY
1933-36 Schenevus NY
1936-39 Windsor NY
1939-44 Otego NY
1944-46 Oxford NY
1946-51 Sherburne NY
1951-53 Moosic
1953 retired
1953-56
Sidney Center NY
Note: Charles M.
Adams is the son of Walter S. Adams, and the father of F. Porter Adams, and the
grandfather of Nancy J. Adams.
ADAMS, FREDERICK PORTER
Born:
10-30-1921 West Exeter NY married: Doris Anita
Gross
Died: 4-5-1985 Binghamton NY obit:
1942 quarterly conference license, Otego
1947 admitted on trial, New Hampshire Conference
1947 ordained deacon, New Hampshire Conference
1951 ordained elder, Wyoming Conference
Interment: Sylvan
Lawn Cemetery, Greene NY
Obit: Wyoming
Conference 1985, 288
1947-48 Methuen
– Oaklands
1948-49 Lawrence
– St. Mark
1949-50 student
1950 transfer
to Wyoming Conference
1950-52 assistant,
Endicott Central
1952-57 Nimmonsburg
1957-61 Sayre
1961-69 Forty
Fort
1969-72 superintendent,
Binghamton District
1972-78 Binghamton
Fairview
1978-85 Endicott
First
Note: F. Porter Adams is the father of Nancy J. Adams, the
son of Charles M. Adams, and the grandson of Walter S. Adams.
ADAMS, JUDITH M. [see WANCK, JUDITH W.]
ADAMS, MOSES
Born: 1-11-1806 Jefferson County NY married: Caroline Ballard
Died: 9-5-1871 Delphos KS obit:
Wyoming Conference 1893, 90
1830 admitted on trial, Oneida Conference
Interment: Racine WI
Obit: Wyoming Conference
1872, 36
1830-31 Wyalusing
1831-32 Dryden
1832-33 Newark
1833-34 Newfield
1834-35 Franklin
1835-36 Dryden
1836-37 Oneida
Mission
1837-39 Sauquoit
1839-41 Hampton
and Lairdsville
1841-43 Verona
1843-44 Morrisville
1844-46 Cortlandville
1846-47 North
Danby
1847-48 on
leave
1848 retired
1869
transfer to Wyoming Conference by boundary change
Note: A biographical sketch of Moses Adams appears in
Chaffee’s 1904 History of the Wyoming
Conference, page 147.
ADAMS, NANCY J.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1989 admitted on trial, Wyoming Conference
1992 ordained deacon
Interment:
Obit:
1989-90 student
1990-95 Hartwick NY
1995-97 associate, Endwell
1997-03 Apalachin NY Park Terrace
2003-07 Ransom
2007-10 Newark Valley NY
2010 charter
member of Upper New York Conference
2010-14 Caring
Covenant Cooperative Parish, Newark Valley
2014-20 superintendent,
Mountain View District
Note: Nancy J. Adams is the daughter of F. Porter Adams, granddaughter
of Charles M. Adams, and great-granddaughter of Walter S. Adams.
ADAMS, WALTER SCOTT
Born: 8-20-1863 Redfield NY married:
Georgiana Gee
Died:
12-13-1908 East Worcester NY obit: Wyoming Conference
1955, 2068
? exhorter’s license, Otego
? local preacher’s license, Otego
1898 admitted on trial, Wyoming Conference
1900 ordained deacon
1902 ordained elder
Interment: Fabius NY
Obit: Wyoming
Conference 1909, 119
1898-00 Decatur
NY
1900-03 Laurens
NY
1903-05 East
Worcester NY and Decatur NY
1905-06 East
Worcester NY
1906-07 Cooperstown
Junction NY
1907-08 Cooperstown
Junction NY and Portlandville NY
1908 East
Worcester NY
Note:
Walter S. Adams is the father of Charles M. Adams, who supplied the pulpit as a
local preacher during his father’s final illness and was officially appointed
there following his death, and the grandfather of F. Porter Adams, and the
great-grandfather of Nancy J. Adams. A
biographical sketch of Walter S. Adams appears in Chaffee’s 1904 History of the Wyoming Conference, page
270.
AIKEN, ANDREW P.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1856 admitted on trial, Wyoming Conference
1858 ordained deacon
1859 ordained elder, New York East Conference:
page 8
Interment:
Obit:
1855-57 Springville
1857-58 Port
Jenkins NY (1st part); Northmoreland (2nd part)
1858-59 Union
NY
1859 located
1859 “transfer”
to New York East Conference
1860 re-admitted
to Wyoming Conference as a deacon, page 10
1861 located
1863 “transfer”
to Providence Conference
1863-65 East
Greenwich
1865-67 Provincetown
Center
1867 withdrew
Note: Andrew P. Aiken graduated from Wesleyan University in
Middletown CT in 1862. He may have died
September 1875 in Centre County PA [see Centre
Recorder for 9/9/1875].
AINSLIE-RICHARDS, PEGG
Born: 08-25-1951 married:
Roger G. Richards
Died: obit:
1975 admitted on trial, West Michigan Conference
1978 ordained deacon, Nebraska Conference
Interment:
Obit: Wyoming
Conference
1975-77 student
1977 transfer
to Nebraska Conference
1977-80 Lexington
1980-83 Loup
Cooperative Parish
1983 transfer
to Wyoming Conference
1983-88 Noxen
1988-89 Windsor
1989 transfer
to Detroit Conference [as Pegg Ainslie]
Note: Pegg Ainslie-Richards was married to Roger G. Richards.
AKERS, DOUGLAS NEAL
Born: 9-20-1937 Scranton PA married: Marilyn Avery
Died: 5-17-2016 obit: [5/18/1941 - ]
1961 admitted on trial, Wyoming Conference
1961 ordained deacon
1963 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit: Upper New York Conference 2017.2, 201
1960-64 Wanamie (beginning 5/22/60)
1964-70 Hawley
1970-82 Dallas
1982-88 superintendent, Oneonta District
1988-92 Johnson City Sarah Jane Johnson Memorial
1994-97 Endicott First
1997 retired
2010
charter member of Upper New York Conference
Note: Douglas N. Akers is the son of George R. Akers.
AKERS, GEORGE RICHARD SR.
Born: 6-14-1911 Scranton PA married:
Margaret Elizabeth James
Died: 8-21-1987 obit:
Wyoming Conference 2003, 201
1938 admitted on trial
1940 ordained deacon
1942 ordained elder
Interment: [body
donated to Upstate Medical Center]
Obit: Wyoming
Conference 1987, 310
1937-38 Thornhurst (beginning 11/1/1937)
1938-42 Hop Bottom
1942-47 Hamlin
1947-52 Peckville
1952-58 Endicott St. Paul’s
1958-65 Honesdale
1965-68 associate, Scranton Elm Park
1968-74 superintendent, Oneonta District
1974-77 conference administrator
1977 retired
1977-82
minister of visitation, Vestal
Note: George R. Akers is the father of Douglas N. Akers
ALBRECHT, FREDERICK C.
Born: 12-23-1939 married: Mary Cheryl _____
Died: obit:
1974 license, Wyoming Conference
1980 admitted on trial, Wyoming Conference
1983 ordained deacon
Interment:
Obit:
1974-78 Rome
1978-81 student
1979-81 Edison OH Canaan (beginning 9/1979)
1981-85 Ransom
1985-94 Afton
1994-03 Otego
2003-05 Upper Butternut – Wharton Valley
2005 retired
2007-08 Otego
2010 charter member of Upper New York Conference
2011-12 Hartwick
– Mt. Vision (beginning 7/17/2011)
2013-14 Hartwick
– Mt. Vision (beginning 9/1/2013)
Edmeston – W. Exeter (beginning
11/1/2013)
2018-20 Otego
2019-20 Unadilla
ALEXANDER, ALMUS D.
Born: 12-15-1839
Hale’s Eddy NY married:
Mattie Knight
Died: 5-18-1899 Binghamton NY obit: Wyoming
Conference 1884, 62
? quarterly conference license, Kingston
1867 admitted on trial, Wyoming Conference
1870 ordained deacon
1872 ordained elder
Interment: Hale’s Eddy NY
Obit: Wyoming Conference 1900, 108
1864-65 Lackawaxen
1865-67 Candor and Spencer
1867-68 Newton
1868-70 Hendricksburg
1870-71 North Danby
1871-73 Montrose
1873-76 Binghamton Main Street
1876-79 Owego
1879-82 Binghamton High Street
1882-85 Binghamton Chenango Street
1885-88 Whitney’s Point
1888-89 Greene
1889-91 Smyrna
1891 retired
Note: Almus D. Alexander is a brother to Charles S.
Alexander. Their father served as a
local pastor. A brief biography of Almus D. Alexander appears in Chaffee’s 1904
History of the Wyoming Conference,
page 147.
ALEXANDER, CHARLES S.
Born: 6-15-1843 Hale’s Eddy NY married: Mary E. Allen
Died: 5-24-1918 Binghamton NY obit:
Wyoming Conference 1921, 115
1861 exhorter’s license
1866 local preacher’s license
1870 admitted on trial, Wyoming Conference
1872 ordained deacon
1874 ordained elder
Interment: Hale’s
Eddy NY
Obit: Wyoming
Conference 1919, 138
Mill Hollow [Luzerne]
Mountain Top1870-72 Spencer1872-73 Newark 1873-75 Tioga Center1875-77 Great Bend1877-80 Slaterville1880-81 Triangle1881-82 on leave1882-83 Oakland
1883 retired
Note: Charles Alexander is a brother to Almus D.
Alexander. Their father served as a
local pastor. Mrs. Alexander is the
daughter of Rev. Aaron P. Allen of the Presbyterian Church. A biographical sketch of Charles S. Alexander
appears in Chaffee’s 1904 History of the
Wyoming Conference, page 270.
ALEXANDER, LEWIS
Born:
married:
Died:
obit:
Interment:
Obit:
1868-69 Lackawaxen
Note: Lewis Alexander served as a supply preacher. He is otherwise unknown.
ALGER, FREDERICK EVERETT
Born: 8-11-1899 Greene NY married: Yvonne C. Carver (1923)
Died: 5-25-1974 Baltimore County MD obit: [1902 – 7/24/1974]
married2: Almira Stanton
1920 admitted on trial, Wyoming Conference obit2: [9/23/1899 – 7/14/1967]
1952 license, Baltimore Conference married3: Mrs. Blanche Dean Bassler (1970)
1960 ordained deacon, Baltimore Conference obit3: Baltimore Conference 1983, 378
1966 ordained elder, Baltimore Conference
Interment: Meadowridge Memorial Park, Elkridge MD
Obit: Baltimore Conference 1974, 388
1920-25 student, Syracuse NY
1925 discontinued
“transfer”
to Baltimore Conference
1960-61 Baltimore Swindell Memorial
1961-64 Baltimore Chesaco Avenue
1964-66 on leave
1966-71 assistant, Homestead
1971-72 Monkton
1972 retired
Note: Frederick E. Alger is the son
of Willard H. Alger. He was an active
layman and served as a supply pastor, retiring from his job with Lever Brothers
in 1964. The first Mrs. Alger later
married a Mr. Quinlan. The third Mrs.
Alger, nee Dean, was the widow of a Mr. Bassler.
ALGER, WILLARD H.
Born:
4-3-1861 Fly Creek NY married:
Genevieve Colburn
Died:
1-1-1949 obit:
Wyoming Conference 1903, 112
married2:
Carrie N. Harrington
1886
local preacher’s license, Otsego obit2: Wyoming Conference
1952, 1166
1890 admitted on trial, Wyoming Conference
1892 ordained deacon
1894 ordained elder
Interment:
Milford Cemetery, Milford NY
Obit:
Wyoming Conference 1949, 214
1888-89 Portlandville1889-90 Westville1890-91 West Nicholson1891-94 Laurens and Oneonta Plains1894-98 Sherburne1898-02 Greene
1902-07 Milford
1907-12 Otego
1912-13 New Berlin NY
1913-16 Waverly PA
1916-24 Factoryville
1924-32 Otego
1932 retired
Plymouth (2 years)
Note: Willard H. Alger is the father of Frederick E. Alger. A biographical sketch of Willard H. Alger appears in Chaffee’s 1904 History of the Wyoming Conference, page 271.
ALLEN, JOHN REUBEN
Born:
12-20-1838 Newark Valley NY married: Roxanna Richards
Died:
12-19-1916 Flemingville NY obit: Wyoming
Conference 1885, 60
married2:
Bertha D. Dunn
1870 exhorter’s license obit2: Wyoming Conference
1921, 112
1871 local preacher’s license
1874 admitted on trial, Wyoming Conference
1875 ordained deacon
1878 ordained elder
Interment:
Flemingville Cemetery, Flemingville NY
Obit:
Wyoming Conference 1917, 120
1872-73 Litchfield
1873-75 Campville
1875-78 North Barton
1878-80 North Tioga
1880-83 Windham
1883-84 Hale's Eddy
1884-85 Beach Pond
1885-86 Oregon [Carley Brook]
1886-87 Oregon [Carley Brook] and Rileyville
1887-90 North Abington
1890-92 Center Moreland
1892-95 Danby
1895-96 Apalachin
1896 retired
Note: A biographical sketch of John R. Allen appears
in Chaffee’s 1904 History of the Wyoming
Conference, page 272.
ALLEN, JOYCE K.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1996 admitted on trial, Wyoming Conference
1999 ordained deacon
Interment:
Obit:
1996-01 Worcester
2001-07 New Milford
2007-10 Windsor
2010 charter
member of Upper New York Conference
2010-20 Binghamton Ogden-Hillcrest
ALLEN, ROBERT DAVID
Born: 8-21-1944 married: Jane Anne _____
Died: obit: [1/1/1947- 7/1/1967]
married2: Kathy Sue _____ [6/20/1982]
1971 admitted on trial, Wyoming Conference obit2: [3/1/1952 – ]
1974 ordained elder married3: Darlis _____
obit3:
Interment:
Obit:
1971-73 student
1973-78 Cooperstown (ending 4/1978)
1978-80 Waymart (beginning 4/1978)
1980-88 Castle Creek
1988-93 Oxford
1993-02 Greentown Hemlock Grove
2002-07 Lynchburg VA Monroe, Virginia Conference
2007 retired
2010 charter member of Upper New York Conference
Note: Robert D. Allen is the son of
Robert R. Allen.
ALLEN, ROBERT RICHARD
Born: 9-13-1911 Laflin PA married: Jessie M. Havens
Died: 10-5-2000 Binghamton NY obit: Wyoming Conference 2002, 203
1970 ordained deacon
Interment: Riverhurst Cemetery, Endwell NY
Obit: Wyoming Conference 2001, 187
1956-83 West Chenango (beginning 12/1956 and ending 12/31/1983)
1983 retired (beginning 12/31/1983)
Note:
Robert R. Allen is the father of Robert D. Allen. He served as a local preacher.
ALLGEIER, MARGARET A.
Born: married: Emil Allgeier
Died: obit: Susquehanna Conference 2018, 263
2009 license
Interment:
Obit:
2009-10 Providence
2010 transfer to Susquehanna Conference bt boundary change
2010-11 Providence
2011-20 White Mills (ending 12/21/2019)
2020 retired
ALMSTEDT, ALBERT F.
Born: 1-27-1911 Brooklyn NY married: Margaret Cole
Died: 9-16-2002 Grand Junction CO obit: [1/19/06 - ]
1956 admitted on trial, Wyoming Conference
1956 ordained deacon
1959 ordained elder
Interment: Memorial Gardens, Grand Junction CO
Obit: Wyoming Conference 2003, 201
1955-58 student, Drew Theological Seminary
1955-58 Damascus
1958-61 Lake Ariel – Hamlin
1961-69 Cooperstown
1969-81 Apalachin
1981 retired
1983-87
Flemingville
AMARA, PAUL C.
Born: married: Kadiatu _____
Died: obit:
2007 admitted on trial, Wyoming Conference
Interment:
Obit:
2005-09 Mount Upton
2009-10 Plains
2009-10 Wilkes-Barre Bennett -Derr
2010 transfer
to Susquehanna Conference by boundary change
2010-19 Plains
2010-11 Wilkes-Barre
Bennett-Derr
2011-15 Wilkes-Barre
Centrral
2019-20 State College Bethune – Park Forest
2020-23 superintendent, Williamsport District
AMMERMAN, GEORGE EDWARD
Born: 1-11-1889 Pectono PA married: Florence Louisa Hooper
Died: 4-20-1984 obit: Southern New Jersey Conf. 1980, 200
1938 ordained, Eastern Conference of the Methodist Protestant Church
Interment: Olivet Cemetery, Pittsgrove NJ
Obit: Southern New Jersey Conference 1985, 209
1918-23 Carley Brook
1923-32 Clifford (ending 11/15/1932)
1932 “transfer” to Eastern Conference of the Methodist Protestant Church (1933, 73)
1932-37 Hollisterville circuit: East Sterling, Hollisterville, Mt. Cobb and Cortez
1937-40 Point Erial NJ
1940 transfer by denominational merger to Southern New Jersey Conference
1940-49 Manahawkin and Cedar Run
1949-56 Centerton Circuit
1956-59 Alloway
1959 retired
Note: George E. Ammerman served as a
local preacher in the Wyoming Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church and
the Eastern Conference of the Methodist Protestant Church until 1938 (page 40),
when he was ordained and granted full membership. Mrs. Ammerman was the daughter of Thomas H.
Hooper (1861-1935) of the Eastern Conference of the Methodist Protestant
Church. She had a brother and two
brothers-in-law who were preachers in the Methodist Protestant Church and
became Methodists in the 1939 denominational union: Thomas Leroy Hooper
(1894-1975) of the West Virginia Conference, Stephen F. Sliker (1884-1958)
[married to her sister Leona] of the New Jersey Conference, and George H.
Naylor (1898-1966) [married to her sister Myrtle] of the Southern New Jersey Conference.
ANDARIESE, MALVERN LINCOLN
Born:
6-10-1876 married:
Carrie Julia Garrabrant
Died:
2-2-1936 obit:
Newark Conference 1955, 149
1895 admitted on trial
1896 ordained local deacon
1899 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
Newark Conference 1936, 451
1895-96 student
1896-97 Choconut Centre
1897-00 New Berlin
1900-01 Kirkwood
1901 transfer
to Newark Conference
ANDERSON, ALANSON SPENCER
Born:
1867 married:
Lillian Underwood [1895]
Died:
5-9-1930 obit:
[12/7/1873 - 1957]
1894 license to exhort, Wyoming Conference
1896 license to preach, Wyoming Conference
1902 ordained local deacon, Central New York
Conference
1903 admitted on trial
1906 ordained elder
Interment:
McGraw Rural Cemetery, McGraw NY
Obit:
1897-98 Beaver Meadow NY
1898-99 Edmeston
1899-00 Burlington Flats
1900 “transfer” to Central New York
Conference
1900-03 Freetown
1903-04 Scott
1904-10 Virgil (moved to Newfield before the
end of the conference year)
1910-13 Newfield
…
1917 withdrew
1922 reinstated
1922-23 Enfield and Kennedy’s
1923 located
Note:
A.S. Anderson served as a local preacher
ANDERSON, ANDY N.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
license
Interment:
Obit:
2009-10 Franklin Forks
2010 charter
member of Upper New York Conference
2010-11 Franklin Forks, Susquehanna Conference
2011-14 Rochester Seneca
2014-15 Spencerport – Adams Basin
2015-20 Syracuse UM Ministries
ANDERSON, DONALD ALBERT
Born: 7-19-1945 married: Gail O’Day [8/8/1970]
Died: obit: [6/26/1949 – ]
married2: Susan _____
1968 admitted on trial, Wyoming Conference obit2:
1968 ordained deacon
1971 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1968-71 student
1971-75 associate, Endicott Central
1875-83 Clarks Green
1883-89 Wilkes-Barre First
1889-90 sabbatical
1990-93 Castle Creek (ending 12/31/1992)
1993-95 Carbondale (beginning 1/1/1993)
1995-05 Athens
2005-07 Clarks Summit
2007 retired
2010
transfer to Susquehanna Conference by boundary change
ANDERSON, GEORGE WOOD
Born: 12-8-1873 Belle Center OH married: Nellie Josephine Sharpe [8/14/1912]
Died: obit:
1899 admitted on trial, Central Ohio Conference
? ordained deacon
? ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1899-03 Lima Epworth
1903 transfer to Troy Conference
1903-09 Troy State Street
1909 transfer to St. Louis Conference
1909-12 St. Louis Union
1912 transfer to Wyoming Conference
1912-15 Scranton Elm Park (ending 2/1915)
1915-17 conference evangelist (beginning 2/1915)
1917 transfer to West Ohio Conference
…
supply pastor, Erie Conference
1946-50 Titusville: Bethel/White Oak
Note: George Woodmansee Anderson is
the proper given name. He received an AB
(1898) and MA (1899) from Ohio Wesleyan University and was a noted traveler and
lecturer. While at Elm Park, George W.
Anderson took extended leaves to preach in evangelist campaigns. In February 1915 (see 1915 journal, page 72),
he led a campaign at Plymouth PA that resulted in over 3,000 converts. He led successful evangelistic campaigns into
the 1930’s and is reported to be the author of several books [Chosen Words: for
Personal Workers and Young Christians (1916), Problem or Opportunity? Which Is
It the Church Is Now Facing (1919), Unfinished Rainbows and Other Essays
(1925), etc.] and of the gospel hymn “The World is Confused – But not
Lost.” Mrs. Anderson compiled gospel
songbooks [Songs of the New Crusade (1927)] and provided musical support for
her husband’s evangelistic crusades.
ANDERSON, RICHARD
Born: married:
Died: obit:
license
Interment:
Obit:
2003-05 Upper Butternut – Wharton Valley
2005-10 Plymouth NY
2010 charter “member” of Upper New York Conbference
2010-11 Plymouth – North Norwich – Preston
2011 retired
2013-16 Leonardsville
2016-19 New Berlin
2018-19 West Exeter
Note: Richard Anderson served as a
local preacher.
ANDREWS, ARTHUR HAROLD
Born: 7-1-1927 Litchfield PA married: Ruth J. Allen
Died: 9-30-2014 Binghamton NY obit: [45/1927 – ]
1944 license
1948 admitted on trial, Wyoming Conference
1948 ordained deacon
1950 ordained elder
Interment: South Montrose PA
Obit: Upper New York Conference 2015, 593
1947-48 Tobyhanna, Eastern Pennsylvania Conference
1948-49 student
1949-51 Center Moreland
1951-54 Montdale
1954-57 Great Bend – Hallstead
1957-61 Vestal Center
1961-66 Niommonsburg
1966-69 Milford
1969-70 sabbatical
1970 retired
1999-01 chaplain, Elizabeth Church Manor (ending 9/1/2001)
2010 charter member of Upper New York
Conference
Note: Arthur H. Andrews is the son of Clarence L. Andrews. Some records give this name as H. ARTHUR ANDREWS.
ANDREWS, CLARENCE LESTER
Born:
1-16-1902 Broome County NY married: Gertrude
Fairbanks White
Died:
9-23-1968 Heart Lake PA obit: Wyoming
Conference 2009, 223
1930 admitted on trial
1932 ordained deacon
1934 ordained elder
Interment:
South Montrose Cemetery, South Montrose PA
Obit:
Wyoming Conference 1969, 249
1927-30 Litchfield
1930-32 Castle Creek
1932-38 Camptown
1938-41 West Nanticoke
1941-43 Wyoming
1943-46 Montrose
1946-49 Cooperstown
1949-51 Mountaintop
1951-57 Duryea
1957-60 Providence
1960-65 Luzerne
1965-67 Oxford
1967 retired
Note: Clarence L. Andrews is the
father of Arthur H. Andrews.
ANDREWS, GEORGE CLINTON
Born: 9-30-1840 Salem PA married:
Mrs. Maria Westfall
Died: 7-12-1879 Franklin Forks PA obit: Wyoming
Conference 1913, 120
1863 quarterly conference license, Beach Pond
1873 admitted on trial, Wyoming Conference
1876 ordained deacon
1878 ordained
elder
Interment: Salem Cemetery, Hamlin PA
Obit: Wyoming Conference 1880, 34
1864-67 student, Wyoming Seminary
1867-68 Herrick Center
1868-69 located
1869-70 Oregon
1870-73 Lackawaxen
1873-75 Pleasant Valley
1875-76 Osborne Hollow
1876-78 Triangle
1878-79 Union Center
1879 located
Note: A brief biography of George
Clinton Andrews appears in Chaffee’s 1904 History
of the Wyoming Conference, page 148.
Mrs. Andrews is the widow of local preacher John Westfall.
ANDREWS, HOWARD ASTON
Born:
7-22-1915 Kingston PA married:
Elizabeth E. Kneeland
Died:
4-8-1999 Fitchburg MA obit:
[9/12/1914 – 8/24/2015]
1940 admitted on trial, Wyoming Conference
Interment:
Center Cemetery, Sheffield MA
Obit:
1940-42 student
1942 discontinued
(denomination
unknown – probably Congregational [UCC])
Stow
Swampscott
Andover
Princeton
Berlin
chaplain,
US Army and Air Force
retired
Littleton
Webster
Sterling
Harvard
Leominster
Note: Howard A. Andrews graduated from Haverford College (1937) in Haverford PA and Andover-Newton Theological Seminary in Newton Centre MA.
ANDREWS, VIKI S.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
license
Interment:
Obit:
2007-10 East Berkshire – Jenksville
2010 charter
member of Upper New York Conference
2010-16 East Berkshire – Jenksville
2011-13 Berkshire
First
2916 retired
ANDREWS, WESLEY ILONE
Born:
9-17-1877 West Exeter NY married: Bertha A.
Darling
Died:
12-1-1952 Waverly NY obit: Wyoming
Conference 1959, 1180
1903
admitted on trial, Northern New York
Conference
Interment:
Salisbury Center NY
Obit:
Wyoming Conference 1953, 1455
1903-04 Salisburg Centre
1904-07 Hammond
1907-08 Trenton
1908-11 Rock River
1911 transfer to Austin Conference
1911-12 Dallas TX Mallalieu
1912 transfer to Wyoming Conference
1912-16 Great Bend – Hallstead
1916-22 Athens
1922-26 Endicott Central
1926-29 Carbondale
1929-35 superintendent, Oneonta District
1935-39 Carbondale
1939-43 Newark Valley
1943 retired
ANDREWS, WILLIAM WINTON
Born:
2-19-1830 Morris NY married:
Mary S. Thompson
Died:
3-24-1908 Athens PA obit:
Wyoming Conference 1907, 116
1855 exhorter’s license
1856 local preacher’s license
1858 admitted on trial, Oneida Conference
Interment:
Tioga Point Cemetery, Athens PA
Obit:
Wyoming Conference 1908, 127
1858-60 McDonough
1860-62 Preston
1862-64 New Berlin NY
1864-66 Mount Upton
1866-69 on leave
1867-70 Afton
1869 transfer
to Wyoming Conference by boundary change
1869-70 Afton
1870-72 Windsor
1872-73 Thompson
1873-75 North Barton
1875-76 Ellistown
1876-84 on leave
1884 retired
Note: A biographical sketch of William W. Andrews
appears in Chaffee’s 1904 History of the
Wyoming Conference, page 273.
ANDROS, MARVIN CONSTANTINE
Born:
8-9-1922 married:
Marilyn Ann Vall
Died:
7-17-2000 obit:
[5/23/1928 – 9/9/2012]
1952 admitted on trial, Wyoming Conference
1953 ordained deacon
1954 ordained elder
Interment:
Fort Snelling National Cemetery, Minneapolis MN
Obit:
Minnesota Conference 2001, 245
1951-54 Clifford
1954 transfer
to Minnesota Conference
1954-59 Atwater
– Rosendale
1959-63 Slayton
– Lake Wilson
1963-70 Dodge
Center
1970-74 Hastings
1974-77 Olivia
Emanuel – Osceola
1977-82 Aitkin
Pine Lake
1982-83 Pinelake
1983-87 Long
Prairie
1987 retired
Note: Marvin Andros served Clifford while a
seminary student at Drew in Madison NJ.
ANDRUS, E.F.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1875 ordained local deacon
Interment:
Obit:
Note: There are records of E.F. Andrus presiding at weddings in Chenango Bridge NY from 1872 to 1877. There was also a different contemporary local preacher Erastus Andrus (1837-1889) in Broome NY
ANGEL, JOSEPH R.
Born: 6-5-1830 Philadelphia PA married: Mary H. Stone
Died: 2-11-1898 Maine NY obit:
Wyoming Conference 1915, 100
1871 admitted on trial, Wyoming Conference
1873 ordained deacon
1875 ordained
elder
Interment: Valley Home Cemetery, Windham PA
Obit: Wyoming Conference 1898, 91
1871-72 Herrick Center
1872-75 Damascus
1875-77 Windham
1877-80 Le Raysville
1880-83 Camptown
1883-86 Meshoppen
1886-89 Newton
1889-91 Lackawanna
1891-93 Nicholson
1893-95 Dalton
1895-97 Vestal
1897-98 Maine
Note: A brief biography of Joseph R.
Angel appears in Chaffee’s 1904 History
of the Wyoming Conference, page 149.
ARMATI, PIO
Born: 10-19-1876 married:
Died: 4-25-1957 obit:
1910 received, Presbyterian Church
Interment:
Obit: New York East Conference 1957,775
Rock River Conference
1916 transfer to Wyoming Conference
1916 Scranton
Italian Mission (ending 11/30/1916)
1916-17 New York City (beginning 12/1/1917)
1917 transfer to New York Conference
Note: Pio Armati served as a
Presbyterian preacher in New Jersey and New York before joining the Methodists.
ARMLIN,
LEONARD D.
Born:
5-13-1877 Schenectady NY married:
Elda Coons
Died:
11-22-1936 Johnson City NY obit: [12/12/1881 –
1/1/1947]
1913 admitted on trial
1915 ordained deacon
Interment:
Middlebury NY
Obit:
Wyoming Conference 1937, 144
1913-16 Heart Lake
1916-18 Chenango Bridge
1918-20 Ogden
1920-21 supervisor, Children’s Home farm
1921-22 Ogden
1922-23 Ouaquaga
1923-24 Great Bend
1924-26 Apalachin – Little Meadows
1926-28 associate, Endicott First
1928-29 Unadilla
1929-30 Endicott St. Paul’s
1930-33 Philanthropic Finance Inc.
1933-35 Choconut Center – Westover
1935 retired
Note: Mrs. Armlin is credited in
General Board of Pensions records for serving in the ministry with her husband
for six years, 1913-19.
ARMSTRONG, EDMUND VALENTINE
Born:
2-3-1837 Albany NY married:
Nettie Raymond
Died:
1-16-1915 obit:
Michigan Conference 1916, 98
1876 exhorter’s license
1876 local preacher’s license
1877 admitted on trial, Michigan Conference
1879 ordained deacon, Michigan Conference
1881 ordained elder, Michigan Conference
Interment:
Mountain Home Cemetery, Kalamazoo MI
Obit:
Michigan Conference 1915, 587
1876-79 Byron Center
1879-81 Sparta
1881-83 Grand Haven
1883-86 Bloomingdale
1886-89 Mendon
1889-91 Kalamazoo
1891-94 St. Joseph
1894-96 Union City
1896 transfer
to Wyoming Conference
1896-01 Forty Fort
1901-04 Marathon
1904 transfer
to Michigan Conference, page 71
Note: A biographical sketch of Edmund V. Armstrong
appears in Chaffee’s 1904 History of the
Wyoming Conference, page 273.
ARMSTRONG, OLIVER HAZARD PERRY
Born:
10-12-1856 Nicholson PA married: Eliza
Jane Louisa Crow [3/19/1880]
Died:
12-19-1934 Owego NY obit:
[12/2/1863 – 3/28/1925]
married2:
Mrs. Laura Phillips [1/30/1927]
1892 license obit2:
[d. 5/5/1934]
1896 ordained local deacon
Interment:
Evergreen Cemetery, Owego NY
Obit:
Wyoming Conference 1935, 639
1892-94 Rome
1894-99 North Tioga
1902-03 Campville
Speedsville
South Danby
1904-05 Hale’s Eddy (ending 5/1905)
1914-15 Little Meadows
1915-18 Flemingville
1918-20 Barton (ending 11/1920)
1920-21
1921-22 Danby – South Danby
1922-25
1925-26 Hickory Gove
Slaterville
Note:
Oliver H.P. Armstrong served as a local elder and hence his service record is
not well-documented. He is reported to
have served in that capacity in the New York Conference for ten years. The second Mrs. Armstrong is believed to be
Laura C. Bower Phillips Armstrong (1858-1934), buried in Caroline NY and the
widow of a Mr. Joseph D. Phillips (1861-1919).
ARNOLD,
ANDREW JACKSON
Born:
10-24-1829 Warren Center PA married: Josephine
Whitaker
Died:
9-20-1898 Binghamton NY obit: [8/29/1834 –
1/15/1916]
1864 admitted on trial, recommended by Auburn
1866 ordained deacon
Interment:
Floral Park Cemetery, Johnson City NY
Obit:
1864-65 Auburn
1865-66 Skinner’s Eddy
1866-72
1872-73 Gibson
1873-74
1874-75 Newton
1875 located
1893 Odessa
Note: Andrew J. Arnold is a brother
of Calvin V. Arnold. A wagon maker and
farmer, he lived his final 24 year in Binghamton NY, where he was an earnest
worker in the High Street Church.
Find-A-Grave gives a good photograph.
ARNOLD, CALVIN V.
Born: 11-11-1822 Warren Center PA married: Content B. Buffington
Died: 7-25-1900 Binghamton NY obit: Wyoming
Conference 1896, 102
married2: Mrs. Nancy Tingley
1839 exhorter’s license obit2: [1825 – 1904]
1844 license
1848 admitted on trial, Oneida Conference
1854 ordained
elder
Interment: Spring Forest Cemetery,
Binghamton NY
Obit: Wyoming Conference 1901, 99
1848-49 Windsor
1849-50 Conklin
1850-52 Lanesboro
1852 charter
member of Wyoming Conference
1852-53 Vestal
1853-55 Salem
1855-57 Mount Pleasant
1857-58 Sanford
1858-59 located
1859-60 Shepherd’s Creek
1860-62 Candor
1862-64 Newark
1864-66 Hawley
1866-68 Mount Pleasant
1868-69 Nicholson
1869-70 Brooklyn
1870-73 Hawleyton
1873-76 Castle Creek
1876-77 New Milford
1877-80 Maine
1880-81 Vestal
1881-83 Kirkwood
1883-86 McDonough
1886-88 Gilbertsville
1888-91 Osborne Hollow and Port
Crane
1891-93 Westford
1893 retired
Note: Calvin V. Arnold is a brother
of Andrew J. Arnold and the grandfather of William B. Arnold. A brief biography of Calvin V. Arnold appears
in Chaffee’s 1904 History of the Wyoming
Conference, page 150.
ARNOLD, WILLIAM BUFFINGTON
Born:
7-20-1885 New York NY married: Annette
K. Henwood
Died:
11-11-1965 Niagara Falls NY obit: Genesee
Conference 1942, 462
1909 license
1911 admitted on trial, Wyoming Conference
1914 ordained deacon
Interment:
Obit:
Western New York Conference 1966, 819
1909-10 Foster
1910-12 Lackawaxen
1912-16 Skinner’s Eddy
1916-20 Mehoopany
1920-22 on leave
1922 transfer
to Genesee Conference
1920-22 Cameron
1922-24 Lawrenceville
1924-26 Hammondsport
1926-30 Sanborn and Pekin
1930-37 Buffalo South Park and Lackawanna
1937-39 Stephen’s Mills Parish
1939-43 Holland, Protection and Colden
1943-44 Castile
1944-48 Ellicottville
1944-45 East Otto
1945-48 West Valley
1948-50 on leave
1950 retired
Note: William B. Arnold is the
grandson of Calvin V. Arnold.
ASHMALL, ROY V.W.
Born: 3-3-1908 Yonkers NY married: Emma J. Fox
Died: 4-15-1974 obit:
1947 license, Baptist Church
1960 ordained, Baptist Church
Interment:
Obit: Wyoming Conference 1974, 284
1947-60 part-time pulpit supply and inner-city ministry in NYC
1960-65 Georgetown
1965-66 Sherburne Village Baptist Church
1966 “transfer” to Wyoming Conference of the Methodist Church
1966-72 Westover
1972-74 Center Moreland
Note: Roy V.W. Ashmall is the father
of Rev. Donald H. Ashmall of the International Council of Community
Churches. Following the death of Roy,
Mrs. Ashmall married William B. Gritman.
ATTENBOROUGH, ALBERT ALLEN JR
Born:
4-28-1925 Lackawanna County PA married: Carolyn M. Katilus
Died:
3-28-2005 obit:
1950 admitted on trial, Wyoming Conference
1953 ordained, Episcopal Church
Interment:
Morningside Cemetery, DuBois PA
Obit:
1950-52 student, Temple University in Philadelphia PA
1952 discontinued,
page 956
Note: Albert A. Attenborough served
Episcopal churches in Pennsylvania and New Jersey before serving for 27 years
as chaplain and team leader in New York state at the Rockland Psychiatric
Center. His 1961 Temple University STD
thesis is titled “A Comparison of the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius
Loyola with Modern Psychiatry.”
AULT, JAMES MASE
Born: 8-24-1918 Sayre PA married: Dorothy Mae Barnhart
Died: 9-21-2008 Brunswick ME obit: [5/16/1924 – ]
1950 admitted on trial, Wyoming Conference
1951 ordained deacon, Northern New Jersey Conference
1952 ordained elder, Northern New Jersey Conference
Interment: St. Johns Cemetery, St. Johns PA
Obit: Wyoming Conference 2009, 224
1945-49 student, Colgate University in Syracuse NY
1946-48 Preston
1948-49 McDonough
1949-50 student, Union Theological Seminary
1950 transfer to Northern New Jersey Conference
1950-51 student, Union Theological Seminary
1951-53 East Rutherford – Carlton
1953-58 Leonia
1958 transfer to Southern New England Conference
1958-61 Pittsfield First
1961 transfer to Northern New Jersey Conference
1961-69 dean of students, Union Seminary
1969-72 dean, Drew University
1972-80 bishop, Philadelphia Area
1980-88 bishop, Pittsburgh Area
1988 retired
Note: James Ault also severed as
interim bishop in the Albany Area.
AUSTIN, ANDREW ORTHELLO
Born:
11-9-1864 Brookfield NY married: Frances
B. Sprague
Died:
7-18-1933 Leonardsville NY obit: Wyoming
Conference 1936, 855
1894
local preacher’s license
1898 admitted on trial, Wyoming Conference
1898 ordained deacon
1900 ordained elder
Interment:
West Edmeston NY
Obit:
Wyoming Conference 1934, 390
1898-01 Union Center
1901-03 Foster
1903-10 Chenango Bridge
1910-16 Oxford (began in mid year: 1910, 55)
1916-18 Uniondale
1918-20 leave of absence
1920-22 Whitney’s Point
1922-25 Kirkwood
1925 retired
Note: A biographical sketch of Andrew O. Austin
appears in Chaffee’s 1904 History of the
Wyoming Conference, page 274.
AUSTIN, ISAAC
Born: 8-28-1828 Luzerne County PA married: Barbara Benscoter
Died: 3-15-1883 near Muhlenburg PA obit: Wyoming Conference
1900, 118
1854 exhorter’s license
1857 quarterly conference license
1865 admitted on trial, Wyoming Conference, recommended by Lackawanna
1867 ordained deacon
1869 ordained
elder
Interment: Benscoter Cemetery,
Muhlenburg PA
Obit: Wyoming Conference 1883, 47
1865-66 Lackawanna
1867-69 Northmoreland
1869-72 Newton
1872-75 Lehman
1875-78 Carverton
1878-80 Northmoreland
1880 retired
Note: Isaac Austin is an uncle to John R. Austin. A brief biography of Isaac Austin appears in Chaffee’s 1904 History of the Wyoming Conference, page 151.
AUSTIN, JOHN [aka JON] L.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
license
Interment:
Obit:
2003-07 Litchfield
2007-10 Litchfield and Lounsberry
2010 charter
member of Upper New York Conference
2010-16 Litchfield and Lounsberry
2016 retired
2016-20 Litchfield
and Lounsberry
AUSTIN, JOHN READER
Born:
2-1-1873 Muhlenberg PA married: Phene
VanBuren
Died:
8-29-1957 obit:
Wyoming Conference 1984, 206
1894 exhorter’s license
1895 local preacher’s license
1901 admitted on trial, Wyoming Conference
1903 ordained deacon
1905
ordained elder
Interment:
Lakeview Cemetery, Ithaca NY
Obit:
Wyoming Conference 1958, 874
1899-01 Scranton Ash Street and Nay Aug
1901-03 Scranton Ash Street
1903-05 Laurens
1905-07 Oakland
1907-08 Maple Grove
1908-10 Center Moreland
1910-13 Lehman
1913-15 Wilkes-Barre Bennett Memorial
1915-17 Wilkes-Barre Firwood
1917-22 Trucksville
1922-23 Dalton
1923-24 Newton
1924-27 Binghamton Oak Street
1927-29 Whitney Point
1929-30 Hawley – White Mills
1930-34 Thompson
1934-38 Hopbottom
1938 retired
Note: John R. Austin is a nephew to Isaac Austin. A biographical sketch of John R.
Austin appears in Chaffee’s 1904 History
of the Wyoming Conference, page 274.
AUSTIN, ROBERT EUGENE
Born:
7-19-1876 Oxford NY married:
Mabel Mae Lewis
Died:
8-6-1961 obit:
Wyoming Conference 1941, 164
married2:
Mrs. Linn A. Maples
1908 license obit2:
Wyoming Conference1950, 542
1909 admitted on trial, Wyoming Conference
1911 ordained deacon
Interment:
Milford Cemetery, Milford NY
Obit:
Wyoming Conference 1962, 220
1908-10 Decatur
1910-14 Harpursville – Nineveh
1914-17 Laurens – Oneonta Plains
1917-18 Wells Bridge
1918-22 Edmeston
1922-27 Sherburne
1927-29 Windsor
1929-35 Milford
1935-37 New Berlin NY
1937-40 Hartwick
1940 retired
Note:
The second Mrs. Austin was born Anna Blanch Smith.
AUSTIN, SAMUEL JAY
Born:
1847 South Danby NY married:
Martha Long
Died:
4-23-1914 obit:
Wyoming Conference 1936, 856
1870 admitted on trial, Wyoming Conference
1872 ordained deacon
1874 ordained elder
Interment:
Hopfer Cemetery, Wallsville PA
Obit:
Wyoming Conference 1914, 111
1870-71 Scranton Hyde Park
1871-73 North Abington
1873-75 Clark's Green
1875-77 Moscow
1877-80 Nicholson
1880-83 Union
1883-85 Waverly and Clark's Green
1885-88 Dallas
1888-90 Parsons
1890-91 on leave
1891-96 Glenwood
1896-97 Wallsville
1897-98 on leave
1898-99 chaplain, Hillside Home
1899 retired
1910-13 North
Sanford
Note: A biographical sketch of Samuel J. Austin
appears in Chaffee’s 1904 History of the
Wyoming Conference, page 271.
AVERY,
HENRY THOMAS
Born:
7-28-1819 Groton CT married:
Mary Ann Avery [4/16/1844]
Died:
9-4-1891 Scott County AR obit: [9/11/1801 –
4/14/1867]
married2:
Lucy Ann Wagner [1/1/1868]
1852 admitted on trial, Wyoming Conference obit2: [10/1/1844 - ?]
1855 ordained deacon, Genesee Conference
1857 ordained elder, Genesee Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1852-53 Broome
1853-54 Vestal
1854-55 Flemingville NY
1855-56 Colly (Sullivan County PA)
1856 transfer
to East Genesee Conference
1856-58 Loyalsock
1858-60 Canton
1860 located
Note: Henry T. Avery moved to Iowa,
where there is no record that he served as a pastor.
AVERY, ORLU D.
Born: 3-15-1882 married:
Mary E. Passage
Died: 7-21-1953 Sayre PA obit:
Wyoming Conference 1969, 253
1928 license
1941 ordained
local elder
Interment: Lockwood Cemetery, Barton NY
Obit: Wyoming Conference 1954, 1756
1928-30 Maple
Lake
1930-34 West
Nicholson
1934-36 (not
appointed)
1936-45 Lockwood
(started during the 1935-36 conference year)
1945-46 (not
appointed)
1946-50 Plymouth
NY
1950 retired
Note: Orlu D. Avery is the father of Ruth
Bertha Avery Kellerman, wife of Robert P. Kellerman. He served as a local preacher.
AYERS, WEBB WILFORD
Born: 6-14-1896 Romulus NY married: Pearl Murnan (2/26/1920)
Died: 12-19-1988 Kenosha WI obit: Western New York Conference 1976, 241
1921 license
1924 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference
1928 ordained deacon, Genesee Conference
Interment: Prospect Hill Cemetery, Perry Center NY
Obit: Western New York Conference 1989, 340
1924-27 Greigsville – Covington
1927-33 Springville
1927-30 Collins Center
1930-33 Boston
1933-39 Wayland
1939-41 Hornell East Avenue – Almond
1941-47 Medina
1947 withdrew
1948 reinstated
1948-50 Westfield
– North Fork – Cowanesque
1950-52 Mt. Morris
1952-55 Caton – South Corning
1955-60 Buffalo Summer Place – Lovejoy
1959-60 St. Andrew
1960-61 Corning Bethany – Coopers Plains
1961 retired
AYLESWORTH, ALLYSON
Born: married:
Died: obit:
license
Interment:
Obit:
2009-10 Whittemore Hill
Note: Allyson Aylesworth served as a local preacher.
Born:
7-26-1847 Decatur NY married:
Emily K. Sperry
Died:
2-1-1922 Los Angeles CA obit: [10/25/1847
- ]
1873 admitted on trial, Western New York
Conference
1885 admitted on trial, Wyoming Conference
1887 ordained deacon
1889 ordained elder
Interment:
Angelus Rosedale Cemetery, Los Angeles CA
Obit:
1873-74 Centerville
1874-75 Centerville and Eagle
1875-76 Andover
1876 charter
member of East Genesee Conference; discontinued
…
supply
work in the Wyoming Conference
1882-83 Portlandville and Junction
1883-84 Preston
1884-86 Edmeston
1886-88 Choconut Center
1888-91 McDonough
1891-95 Middlefield
1895-96 Wells Bridge
1896-99 New Milford (did not finish third year; see 1899,27)
1899-01 on leave
1901 located
1908 moved
to California, where he served as a supply
Indio
Del
Rosa First
Note: Charles W. Babcock (and Emily)
has a monument/gravesite in Maple Grove Cemetery, Worcester NY, inscribed with
their birthdates, that they purchased but never used.
BACKUS, ALFRED
Born:
5-4-1877 Huntingdon, England married: Lillian Deamer
Died:
11-20-1965 Binghamton NY obit: Wyoming
Conference 1948, 1019
married2:
Ethel Jane Arnold
obit2:
Wyoming Conference 1978, 232
? admitted on trial, Wesleyan Connexion
of British Methodism
1907 admitted on trial, Virginia Conference
Interment:
Chenango Valley Cemetery, Binghamton
Obit:
Wyoming Conference 1966, 254
1906-07 Change Islands, Newfoundland
1907 “transfer”
to West Virginia Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church
1907-08 Barrackville
1908-09 Bomont
1909-10 Pine Grove
1910-13 Ripley
1913-16 Hartford
1916-17 Point Pleasant
1917-20 Sutton
1920-21 Rowlesburg
1921-22 sabbatical
1922-23 Bellington
1923-24 on leave
1924 transfer
to Wyoming Conference (see 1925,82)
1924-26 Smyrna
1926-28 Mill City
1928-29 Maple Grove
1929-30 Scranton Bradley Memorial
1930-31 Hamlin
1931-33 Hop Bottom – Brooklyn
1933-36 Berkshire
1936-40 Sidney Center
1940-42 Sanitaria Springs
1942 retired
1949-51
Evans Falls
BAILEY, JUDSON N.
Born:
11-30-1868 Chinchilla PA married: Addie M.
Tingley
Died:
2-10-1941 obit:
Wyoming Conference 1916, 117
married2:
Kathryn Ace
1890 local preacher’s license obit2: Wyoming
Conference 1969, 254
1894 ordained local deacon
1897 admitted on trial, Wyoming Conference;
recommended by Waverly PA
1899 ordained deacon
Interment:
Sunnyside Cemetery, Tunkhannock PA
Obit:
Wyoming Conference 1941, 152
1897-99 Centermoreland
1899-02 Moosic
1902 transfer
to Colorado Conference
1902-03 Denver Merritt Memorial
1903 transfer
to Wyoming Conference
1903-05 Askam
1905-06 Scranton
St. Paul’s
1906-08 associate,
Scranton Elm Park
1908-12 Plains
1912-14 Endicott
1914-17 Nicholson
1917-18 Taylor
1918-20 Wilkes-Barre
Derr Memorial
1920-25 Luzerne
1925-29 Dallas
1929-31 Moscow
1931-36 Carverton
1936 retired
Note: A biographical sketch of Judson N. Bailey
appears in Chaffee’s 1904 History of the
Wyoming Conference, page 275.
General Board of Pensions records list the date of death as 2/13/1941.
BAILEY, NELSON M.
Born:
7-29-1829 Thompson CT married: Carrie
M. _____
Died:
3-8-1904 obit:
[1832 – 10/10/1886]
1859 admitted on trial, New Hampshire Conference
Interment:
Evergreen Cemetery, Berwick ME
Obit:
Rye
Raymond
Henniker
Marlow
Amesbury
Great Falls
East Salisbury
1873-75 Claremont
1875-76 Portsmouth
1876-78 Lancaster
1878-79 Tilton
1879-81 Sanbornton
1881-82 on leave
1882-84 Hopkinton
1884-85 on leave
1885 transfer
to Wyoming Conference
1885-86 Lehman
1886 transfer
to New Hampshire Conference
1886-87 ?
1887 withdrew
joined
the Congregational Church
1888-89 Ossipee
1889-92 Beechwood
1892-93 ?
1893-01 Wells Beach
1901-02 ?
1902-04 South Killingly
BAILEY, VOLNEY A.
Born: c1860 NY married:
Anna Harned [10/24/1883]
Died: 1-4-1891 Castle Creek NY obit: [11/1863 –
9/1892]
Interment: Mt. Vision NY
Obit: [Wyoming Conference 1891, 15]
1890-91 Castle Creek (9/1890-1/1891)
Note: Volney A. Bailey appears to have been a local preacher, but is otherwise unknown. He served Castle Creek as reported in the 1891 journal, page 15. Mrs. Bailey was a daughter of Henderson G. Harned.
BAILEY, WILLIAM H.
Born: 5-1-1861 Summit NY married:
Died: 4-7-1890 Union Center NY obit:
1881 exhorter’s
license
1884 quarterly conference license
1886 admitted on trial, Wyoming Conference
1888 ordained deacon
Interment: Upper East Worcester
Cemetery, Union Center NY
Obit: Wyoming Conference 1891, 78
1886-88 Harford
1888-90 Union Center
Note: A brief biography of William H. Bailey appears in Chaffee’s 1904 History of the Wyoming Conference, page 152.
BAIRD, JOSEPH
Born:
5-?-1850 Monagham County, Ireland married: Hattie Coe
Died:
6-2-1912 obit:
[d. 12/2/192]
1874 admitted on trial, Northern New York
Conference
Interment:
Southampton NY
Obit:
New York East Conference 1913, 114
Middleville
NY
1884 transfer
to New York East Conference
Milford
CT
New
York City Willis Avenue
New
Haven George Street
Sag
Harbor and East Hampton
1901-02 Worcester, Wyoming Conference
1902 transfer
to Wyoming Conference
1902-04 Worcester
1904-08 on leave
1908 transfer
to New York East Conference
1909 on
leave for health reasons
Note: Joseph Baird is the father of George Adelbert Baird
(1884-1955) of the New York Conference. A
biographical sketch of Joseph Baird appears in Chaffee’s 1904 History of the Wyoming Conference, page
276.
BAKER, CHARLES F.
Born:
10-7-1903 Bainbridge NY married: Lillian
E. Dufford
Died:
6-3-1969 Binghamton NY obit: Wyoming
Conference 1984, 206
Interment:
Warn-Ten Broeck Cemetery, Brisben NY
Obit:
Wyoming Conference 1970, 247
1952-53 McDonough
1953-55 Preston – McDonough
1968-69 McDonough
Note: Charles F. Baker is the father
of Richard Baker. He served the above appointments
in the Wyoming Conference as a local preacher.
He reportedly served 12 years in the Troy Conference and 16 years with
the Reformed Methodist Church. The
“obituary” of Mrs. Baker is simply a belated announcement of her death; her
dates are 1904-1981.
BAKER,
DONALD HALE
Born:
10-19-1925 married:
Diane Floyd
Died:
3-10-2013 Ridgefield CT obit:
married2:
Mrs. Edith Yake
1958 ordained, American Baptist Convention obit2:
Interment:
Congregational Church of Brookfield Memorial Garden, Brookfield Center CT
Obit:
Center
Street Baptist, Jamaica Plain MA
First
Congregational Church, Fryburg ME
1978-87 Maine Federated (Wyoming Conference)
1987-94 Ridgebury Congregational Church, Ridgefield CT
1994 retired
visitation pastor, Brookfield UCC
Note: Donald H. Baker served Maine
Federated congregation in the Wyoming Conference as a pastor in the United
Church of Christ. He is the author of
the 1962 book Psychology of Prayer
and was a member of the Connecticut Conference UCC at the time of his death.
BAKER, JAMES ALBERT
Born: 9-4-1935 Brooklyn PA married:
Ruth Yvonne Banker (1/23/1956)
Died: obit:
Susquehanna Conference 2019, 332
1961 local
preacher’s license
1962 admitted
on trial, Wyoming Conference
1962 ordained
deacon
1964 ordained
elder
Interment:
Obit:
1961-64 Mehoopany (beginning 5/14/1961)
1965-69 Avoca
1969-72 associate, Binghamton Tabernacle
1972-86 Forty Fort
1986-93 Endicott Central
1993-00 superintendent, Wilkes-Barre District
2000 retired
2006
West Pittston (Feb – June)
2010
transfer to Susquehanna Conference by boundary change
2011
Mountaintop Christ (1/1/2011 to 6/30/211)
BAKER, RICHARD CHARLES
Born:
12-13-1936 Binghamton NY married: Marie
Carolyn Pacey
Died:
10-1-2011 obit:
[6/24/1939 – 11/13/3004]
1969 license, Wyoming Conference
1970 admitted on trial, Wyoming Conference
1972 ordained deacon, Western Pennsylvania
Conference
Interment:
Pleasant Hill Cemetery, Glasgow PA
Obit:
1969-71 Lake Como
1971 transfer
to Western Pennsylvania Conference
1971-76 Glasgow Larger Parish
1976-79 Midway
1979-82 Grand Valley (ending 12/31/1981)
1982 Evans
Memorial (1/1/1982 – 6/30/1982)
1982 Pittsfield
(7/1/1982 – 12/31/1982)
1983 withdrew
(1/1/1983)
Note: Richard Baker is the son of
Charles F. Baker. He was living in Van
Ormer PA at the time of his death.
BALDWIN, EMORY ABEL
Born:
3-22-1853 married:
Jennie F. _____
Died:
1-3-1941 obit:
[1853 – 1939]
1874 exhorter’s license, Ortega
1875 local preacher’s license
1880 admitted on trial
1882 ordained deacon
1884 ordained elder
Interment:
Weedsport Rural Cemetery, Weedsport NY
Obit:
Michigan Conference 1941, 885
1880-81 North Norwich
1881-83 Willett
1883-84 Onaquaga
1884-86 Sanford
1886-89 Sidney Centre
1889 transfer
to Central New York Conference
1889-92 East Canton PA
BALDWIN, HELEN M. GORHAM
Born:
7-30-1839 Guilford NY married:
Stephen Livingston Baldwin
Died: 3-16-1861
at sea obit:
Newark Conference 1903, 95
missionary
Interment:
“the cemetery on the west bank of the Cehnango,” Binghamton NY
Obit:
1858-61 missionary, Foochow China
Note: Helen “Nellie” Baldwin is the
daughter of Barlow Weld Gorham and the wife of Stephen Livingstone Baldwin
(1835-1902) of the Newark Conference.
BALDWIN, JULIUS AUGUSTUS
Born:
11-20-1814 Woodbury CT married: Thomasine
Spry [5/21/1857]
Died:
11-26-1900 Dover NJ obit:
[6/14/1835 – 6/9/1885]
1855 admitted on trial, Wyoming Conference
1858 ordained deacon
Interment:
Obit:
1855-56 Cherry Ridge
1856-57 Bethany
1857-58 Stoddartsville
1858 located
Note: Julius A. Baldwin received an
MD from the University of Maryland in 1849 and practiced medicine full-time
after leaving the ministry.
BANCROFT,
GEORGE C.
Born:
5-20-1814 Cape May NJ married:
Henrietta Ash
Died:
6-9-1890 Ocean Grove NJ obit: [1813 –
9/7/1846]
married2:
Carolyn J. Orton
1839 admitted on trial, New York Conference obit2: [7/6/1827 – 10/9/1894]
1843 ordained deacon
1845 ordained elder
Interment:
Glen Falls Cemetery, Glen Falls NY
Obit:
Troy Conference 1891, 97
1837-39 local preacher, New York Conference
1839-41 Westport
1841-42 Sugar Loaf
1842-43 West Point
1843-45 Pawlings
1845-46 Norfolk
Millersville
MD
Stockbridge
Windham
Saugerties
circuit
Colchester
1853 transfer
to Providence Conference
1853-55 Portsmouth
1855-57 Woonsocket
1857-59 on leave
1859-60 Chesterton, Troy Conference
1860 “re-admitted”
to Wyoming Conference as an elder
1860-62 Scranton
1862-64 on leave
1864
located
1864 “transfer”
to Troy Conference
1864 transfer
to Vermont Conference by boundary change
1864-65 Leicester
1865-66 Salisbury
1866-68 Bristol
1868-70 Vergennes
1870-71 Ferrisburg
1871 transfer
to Troy Conference by boundary change
1871 Ferrisburg
1872-74 Stamford
1874-77 Troy Third Street
1877 retired
Note: While located 1857-59, George
C. Bancroft edited a newspaper in Boston and did religious work with
seamen. He is the father of “Methodist
deaconess leader” Jane Marie Bancroft Robinson (1847-1932).
BARGAINNIER, DOROTHY A.
Born:
1-31-1939 married:
Roger B. Bargainnier [6/26/1975]
Died:
obit:
[6/29/1936 – ]
Interment:
Obit:
1984-1985 Lockwood
(beginning 1/1/1984 and ending 10/6/1985)
Note: Dorothy A. Bargainnier served as a
local preacher. The family appears to
have retired to the Ashville NC area.
BARKER, ABEL GUNN
Born: 9-17-1811 Kingston PA married:
Phoebe Williams
Died: 9-24-1886 Wyoming PA obit:
married2: Phoebe Ann Brown
1836 admitted
on trial, Oneida Conference obit2:
[d. 8/5/1883]
Interment: Forty Fort Cemetery, Forty
Fort PA
Obit: Wyoming Conference 1887, 71
1836-37 Canaan
1837-38 Pittston
1838-40 Skinner’s Eddy
1840-42 Newfield
1842-43 Candor
1843-45 Binghamton
1845-47 Honesdale
1847-52 on leave for health reasons
1852 charter member of Wyoming Conference
1852-61 on leave
1852-55 Bethany
1855-56 Honesdale
1856-61 Carbondale
1861 retired
Note: Abel G. Barker is a brother of
Thomas B. Barker, and he is an uncle to Rev. William Morris Barker (1854-1901),
a bishop in the Episcopal Church. A
brief biography of Abel Barker appears in Chaffee’s 1904 History of the Wyoming Conference, page 153.
BARKER, ELBERT ELLINGTON, JR.
Born:
7-4-1876 Durhamville NY married: Laura
Jane Marshall [8/5/1903]
Died:
2-2-1957 Seattle WA obit:
[4/16/1872 - ?]
married2:
Edna Thiele
1897 exhorter’s license, Oneida obit2: [10/6/1886
– 5/22/1986]
1897 local preacher’s license
1900 admitted on trial, Wyoming Conference
1901 ordained deacon
1903
ordained elder [see 1904, 34]
Interment:
Lakeview Cemetery, Seattle WA
Obit:
1896-99 student, Syracuse University
1899-01 Heart Lake
1901-04 North Norwich
1904-07 Davenport
1907-11 Wyalusing
1911-12 Falls
1912-13 Waverly PA
1913 withdrew,
page 63
1914-15 Navarino, Central New York Conference
1915 “transfer”
to Central New York Conference [see CNY Conference 1915, 59]
1915-16 Navarino
1916-17 East
Syracuse
1917-20 superintendent,
Anti-Saloon League
1920 located
Note: A biographical sketch of Elbert E. Barker
appears in Chaffee’s 1904 History of the
Wyoming Conference, page 276.
BARKER, THOMAS B.
Born: 4-24-1828 Kingston PA married:
Died: 4-26-1898 Scranton PA obit:
1855 admitted on trial, East Genesee Conference
1857 ordained deacon, East Genesee Conference
Interment: Forty Fort Cemetery, Forty Fort PA
Obit:
1855-56 Tioga
1856-57 Covington
1857-58 Wellsboro
1858 located
…
“transfer” to Episcopal Church
-64 assistant, Philadelphia PA Grace
1864-81 Lancaster PA St. John’s
1881- Carbondale Trinity
…
1896 “transfer” to Wyoming Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church
Note: Thomas B. Barker is a brother
to Abel G. Barker. Chaffee’s 1904 History
of the Wyoming Conference states he was “for many years a minister in the
Protestant Episcopal Church, who within a few years before his death united
with the Elm Park Church of Scranton, and whose orders were recognized by the
Conference of 1896.”
BARNARD, MARILYN
Born: 11-22-1936 married:
Ray Foster Barnard
Died: obit:
Susquehanna Conference 2017, 278
1982 local
preacher’s license
1993 admitted
on trial, Wyoming Conference
1993 ordained
deacon
Interment:
Obit:
1982-84 Stevens Point (beginning 9/1982 and ending 10/1984)
1984-89 Hop Bottom (beginning 10/1984)
1989-98 Dalton
1998-03 Maine Federated
2003 retired
2010
transfer to Susquehanna Conference by boundary change
BARNER, SILAS
Born: 8-28-1807 Cobleskill NY married:
Harriet N. Clagett
Died: 4-23-1886 Rome PA obit: Wyoming
Conference 1889, 84
1831 quarterly
conference license, Sharon circuit
1845 ordained local deacon
1855 admitted on trial, Wyoming Conference
1857 ordained elder
Interment: Bumptown Cemetery, Rome PA
Obit: Wyoming Conference 1887, 67
1852 “transfer” to Wyoming Conference by boundary change
1852-54 Litchfield
1854-55 LeRaysville
1855-56 Rome
1856-58 Dundaff and Glenwood
1858-60 Beach Pond
1860-62 Sanboro
1862-63 Damascus
1863-65 Lanesboro
1865-67 Page Brook
1867-70 Harpursville
1870-73 Orwell
1873 retired
Note: Silas Barner is the father of Mary A. Barner Jewell, wife of Charles H. Jewell. A brief biography of Silas Barner appears in Chaffee’s 1904 History of the Wyoming Conference, page 133.
BARNES, DAYTON CURTIS
Born:
9-14-1834 Bradford County PA married: Sarah Elmina
Woodruff
Died:
5-13-1919 Hop Bottom PA obit: Wyoming
Conference 1930, 358
1857 exhorter’s license
1869 local preacher’s license, Wyalusing
1873 admitted on trial, Wyoming Conference
1873 ordained deacon
1877 ordained elder
Interment:
Evergreen Cemetery, Brooklyn PA
Obit:
Wyoming Conference 1920, 111
1872-73 Wyalusing
1873-74 Nicholson
1874-76 Gibson and Harford
1876-79 Factoryville
1879-80 Orwell
1880-81 Mount Upton
1881-84 New Berlin NY
1884-87 Little Meadows
1887-90 Vestal
1890-91 Marathon
1891-93 Brooklyn
1893-95 Auburn
1895-98 Falls
1898-00 Lanesboro
1900-01 on leave
1901-03 Conference Evangelist
1903
retired
Note: Dayton C. Barnes is the son of Jeremiah C. Barnes and
a brother to Newton W. Barnes. A
biographical sketch of Dayton C. Barnes appears in Chaffee’s 1904 History of the Wyoming Conference, page
277.
BARNES,
JEREMIAH C.
Born:
11-10-1808 Granville MA married: Lucy
Wickizer
Died:
9-18-1867 Herrickville PA obit: [9/4/1809 –
5/8/1889]
Interment:
East Herrick Cemetery, East Herrick PA
Obit:
1858-59 Wyalusing
Note: Jeremiah C. Barnes is the
father of Dayton C. Barnes and Newton Barnes.
He served as an active local pastor.
BARNES, KENNETH E.
Born: 9-7-1945 married:
Evalena P. Cure (9/23/1977)
Died: obit:
Susquehanna Conference 2022, 351
1974 admitted
on trial, Wyoming Conference
1974 ordained
deacon
1977 ordained
elder
Interment:
Obit:
1974-76 associate, Endwell
1976-78 Peckville
1978-80 Throop
1980-83 Nainbridge
1983-89 Sherburne
1989-93 Hawleyton
1993-00 Oxford
2000 Oneonta
Elm Park (ending 10/2000)
2000-04 on leave (beginning 10/2000)
2004 retired
2010
transfer to Susquehanna Conference by boundary change
BARNES, NEWTON W.
Born:
5-6-1848 East Herrick PA married: Mrs.
Lois Lovina Fuller Vaughn
Died:
8-9-1922 obit:
[10/4/1848 – 1/2/1890]
married2: Gettie Wells
1877
local preacher’s license obit2:
Wyoming Conference 1915, 102
1886 ordained local deacon
1893 ordained local elder
1909 admitted on trial, Wyoming Conference
Interment:
Camptown Cemetery, Camptown PA
Obit:
Wyoming Conference 1923, 131
Standing
Stone
East
Herrick
1884-87 Tioga
Centre
1887-90 Apalachin
1890-91 Tioga
Centre
1891-93 Flemingville
1893-96 Hornbrook
1896-99 Tioga
Centre
1899-02 Rome
1902-03 Lockwood
1903-07 Orwell
1907-08 Barton
1908-11 Little
Meadows
1911-12 Spencer
1912-15 Berkshire
1915-18 Choconut
Center
1918-19 Kirkwood
1919-20 Little
Meadows
1920-22 Flemingville
1922 Ogden
Note: Newton W. Barnes is the son of Jeremiah C.
Barnes and a brother to Dayton C. Barnes.
He served as a local preacher for 25 years until admitted on trial as an
itinerant in 1909; accordingly, some of his early service is not
well-documented. The first Mrs. Barnes
(nee Fuller) was the widow of a Mr. Elwood L. Vaugh (1844-1872).
BARON, SARA E.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
2005 admitted
on trial, Wyoming Conference
2009 ordained
deacon
Interment:
Obit:
2005-06 student
2006-10 Morris
2010 charter
member of Upper New York Conference
BARRETTE, EMERY GEORGE.
Born: 6-30-1930 married:
Audrey Marie Svendsen
Died: 4-4-1993 obit:
[1930 – 2008]
1954 admitted
on trial, Minnesota Conference
1957 ordained
deacon, Minnesota Conference
Interment: Forest Lawn Memorial
Park, Maplewood MN
Obit: Minnesota Conference 1993, 236
1954-57 Skinners Eddy, Wyoming Conference
1957- Rice Lake
Note: Emery G. Barrette served as a
student local pastor while attending Drew Theological Seminary. He is described
in Minnesota in 1966 as being a juvenile court chaplain.
BARROWS,
ALVIN WINCHESTER
Born:
9-2-1836 McDonough NY married:
Maria Adelaide Hand [10/?/1860]
Died:
1-29-1908 McDonough NY obit: [1838 –
2/5/1862]
married2:
Mrs. Eva DeEtta Lewis [1870]
1869 admitted on trial obit2: [1836 –
12/17/1891]
1871 ordained deacon married3: Mrs. Ellen
Schwartz [9/14/1892]
1871 ordained elder
Interment:
McDonough Village Union Cemetery, McDonough NY
Obit:
1869-70 Preston
1870-73 Triangle
1873-75 Clifford
1875-76 Decatur
1876-78 on leave, living in Decatur
1878-81 on leave, living in McDonough
1881 withdrew
entered
the Baptist ministry
Meridian
(2 years)
East
Pharsalia (14 years)
1897 retired
Note: Alvin W. Barrows studied law
before entering the ministry.
BARTER,
SAMUEL SANBORN
Born:
5-18-1819 London NH married:
Althea Hoadley
Died:
10-12-1891 obit:
Central New York Conference1886, 102
1848 exhorter’s license, Smithville
1850 local preacher’s license
1851 admitted on trial, Oneida Conference
1853 ordained deacon
1855 ordained elder
Interment:
Ovid Cemetery, Ovid NY
Obit:
Central New York Conference 1892, 106
1850-51 Hawleyton
1851-52 Brooklyn
1852 charter
member of Wyoming Conference
1852-54 Dundaff
1854-55 Bethany
1855-57 Montrose
1857-59 Abington [Waverly]
1859-61 Lackawanna [Scranton]
1861-62 Great Bend
1862-64 Union
1864-65 Van Ettenville
1865 transfer
to Central Ohio Conference
1865-66 Quincy
1866-67 Richwood
1867-69 Defiance
1860-71 Toledo Lagrange Street
1871-73 superintendent, East Toledo District
1873-75 Toledo Monroe Street
1875-76 Delta
1876-78 on leave
1878 transfer
to Genesee Conference
1878-80 Italy
1880 transfer
to Central New York Conference by boundary change
1880-82 Pultneyville
1882-84 Dryden
1884-86 Ovid
1886-87 Odessa
1887-88 Union Springs
1888-89 Sheldrake
1889-90 Benton Center
1890-91 Hopewell and Flint Creek
1891 on
leave
BARTHOLOMAY, DONALD WALTER
Born: 10-15-1916 Vandling PA married: Doris L. Brunner [6/22/1938]
Died: 10-17-2006 obit: [10/2/1916 – 2/?/2009]
1956 license, Wyoming Conference
1958 admitted on trial, Wyoming Conference
1958 ordained deacon
1961 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit: [none]
1956-58 Clifford – Lenoxville (beginning 10/1956)
1958-61 Clifford
1961-64 Forest City
1964-67 Scranton Myrtle Street
1967-78 Sidney (ending 12/1978)
1978-80 Binghamton Fairview (beginning 12/1978)
1980-85 Carbondale
1985 retired
BARTHOLOMEW, AMBROSE GAMES
Born:
3-31-1840 Unadilla NY married:
Carrie L. Morgan [4/12/1865]
Died:
1923 obit:
[1847 – 1882]
1873 admitted on trial
1875 ordained deacon
1877 ordained elder
Interment:
Elmwood Cemetery, St. Paul NE
Obit:
1879 transfer
to Nebraska Conference
BARTLETT, JAMES EARL
Born:
8-1-1886 Danville OH married:
Lola Evelyn Haugh [1920]
Died:
9-13-1962 Oxfoed OH obit:
[11/9/1894 – 11/?/1973]
1918 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference
Interment:
Oxford Cemetery, Oxford OH
Obit:
Southern California - Arizona Conference 1964, 265
1918-20 North Ridge
1920-21 Lackawanna
1921-25 Newfane
1925-26 associate, Buffalo Asbury-Delaware
1926 transfer
to Wyoming Conference
1926-29 Plymouth
1929-32 Scranton Simpson
1932-34 Binghamton Fairview
1934-36 Newark Valley
1936-39 Clark’s Green (ending 1/1/1939)
1939 transfer
to Peninsula Conference
Wilmington
DE
Miami
FL
Wheeling
EV
transfer
to Southern California – Arizona Conference
Douglas
AZ
1954-57 Los Angeles Moore Memorial
1957 retired
BARTLETT, PHILIP
Born: 12-?-1811 Kent County, England married:
Died: 6-16-1899 Astoria NY obit:
married2: Clara Bush
1838 admitted
on trial, Oneida Conference obit2:
Wyoming Conference 1904,107
? ordained, Oneida Conference
Interment: Woodlawn Cemetery, New York NY
Obit: Wyoming Conference 1900, 109
1838-40 Westfield
1840-41 Otego
1841-43 Chenango
1843-44 Bainbridge
1844-46 Page Brook
1846-48 Lanesboro
1848-50 Orwell
1850-52 LeRaysville
1852 charter member of Wyoming Conference
1852-54 Montrose
1854-55 Barton
1855-63 agent, Conference Tract Society
1863-65 Great Bend and New Milford
1865 retired
Astoria, Arlington, Bellport, Oyster Bay, Steinway
Note: A brief biography of Philip
Bartlett appears in Chaffee’s 1904 History
of the Wyoming Conference, page 154.
BARTZ, JAMES MARTIN
Born:
4-21-1924 Sidney Center NY married: Maxine C.
Cronauer
Died:
7-6-2001 Fern Park FL obit:
[5/14/1928 – ]
Interment:
Ouleout Cemetery, Franklin NY
Obit:
Wyoming Conference 2002, 204
1951-54 Mount Upton – Rockdale (beginning 12/1/1951)
1954-57 Afton – North Afton
1957-61 Schenevus – Westford
1961-66 Bainbridge – Union Valley
1966-67 ?
1967-80 high school guidance counselor at Mount Upton and Afton high
schools
1980-89 Orlando FL Regional Medical Center
1989 retired
1989-99
part-time chaplain, Orlando Regional Medical Center
Note: James M. Bartz is a nephew to
William E. Bartz. He served in the
Wyoming Conference as a local preacher.
The chapel at the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Florida is named is
named the Chaplain James M. Bartz Memorial Chapel in his memory. His education includes studies at the
Westminster Theological Seminary.
BARTZ, WILLIAM ERNEST
Born:
1-27-1896 Bronx NY married:
Lulu A. Rutenber
Died:
11-1-1990 obit:
Wyoming Conference 2000, 308
1927
local preacher’s license, Wyoming
Conference
1936 ordained deacon
Interment:
Evergreen Hill Cemetery, Unadilla NY
Obit:
Wyoming Conference 1991, 327
1927-31 North Fenton
1931-33 Coventry
1933-36 Hawleyton
1936-43 Castle Creek
1943-48 Marathon
1948-51 Lanesboro
1951-565 superintendent, Children’s Home
1955-59 North Fenton
1959-63 New Berlin
1963 retired
Note William E. Marts is an uncle to
James M. Bartz.
BASFORD, CALVIN H.
Born:
c1849 MD married:
Viola L. _____
Died:
8-22-1926 Philadelphia PA obit:
1876 admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference
1878 ordained, Pennsylvania Conference MP
Interment:
Marathon Village Cemetery, Marathon NY
Obit:
1876-77 Bentley Springs
1877 “transfer”
to Pennsylvania Conference of the Methodist Protestant Church
1877-78 Monroe
1878-79 Pine Creek
1879-80 Burlington
1880 “transfer”
To Wyoming Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church
1880-81 Harford
1881-83 Rush
1883-85 Apalachin
1885-87 Spencer
1887 no
longer listed
“transfer”
to Philadelphia Conference
“transfer”
to New York Conference
Note: Calvin H. Basford served as a
local and/or supply pastor in the Wyoming Conference and the Philadelphia
Conference and, for a few years before his death, in Sullivan County of the New
York Conference. The tombstone gives the
name of Mrs. Basford as Viala, but there are no dates.
BAUER, PAUL ROBERT
Born:
3-4-1947 Scranton PA married:
Anne Louise Meters
Died:
obit:
[8/21/1950 – ]
1970 admitted on trial, Wyoming Conference
1976 ordained deacon, Wyoming Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1970-72 student
1972-73 Skinners Eddy
1973-74 student
1974-79 Carverton
1979 transfer
to Peninsula Conference
1979-81 Newark
1981-84 Peninsula
– McCabe
1984-88 Odessa
1988 transfer
to Central Illinois Conference
conference
staff
Note: As of 2003 Paul R. Bauer was serving
congregations under appointment in the Illinois Great Rivers Conference.
BAXTER, EDNA MAY
Born:
6-30-1890 Nichols NY married:
[never married]
Died:
10-16-1985 obit:
1916 ordained deaconess
Interment:
Tioga Point Cemetery, Athens PA
Obit:
Wyoming Conference 1986, 286
Note: Edna May Baxter was the first
woman to serve full-time as a teacher of religious education in a theological
seminary. She is listed in the 1966
Who’s Who in the Methodist Church, page 72.
Her many achievements in Christian Education include the 1963 book The Beginnings of Our Religion.
BEALLA, MICHAEL A.
Born:
6-24-1953 married:
Bonnie Gail Shillabeer
Died:
obit:
[4/22/1957 – ]
1980 admitted on trial, Wyoming Conference
1982 ordained deacon
1984 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1975-78 student, Misericordia College
1975-78
Kunkle
1978-80 student, School of Theology
1978-80
Alderson – Kunkle
1980-86 Skinners Eddy
1986-88 Factoryville
1988-98 Dallas
1998-03 Endwell (ending 2/28/2003)
2003-08 Trucksville (beginning 3/1/2003)
2008 transfer
to Central Pennsylvania Conference
2008-16 director, Connectional Ministries
2016-23 Scranton Elm Park
BEANE, EARL ROBERT
Born: 1-17-1942 Wilkes-Barre PA married: Mildred B. _____
Died: obit:
[5/30/1943 - ]
1964 admitted
on trial, Wyoming Conference
1964 ordained
deacon
1967 ordained
elder
Interment:
Obit:
1964-68 student
1968-69 Berkshire
1969-73 associate, Endwell
1973-76 associate, Vestal
1976-06 director of admissions, Boston University School of Theology
2006 retired
2010
charter member of Upper New York Conference
Note: Earl R. Beane is the son of
Roy H. Beane.
BEANE, FREDERICK G.
Born:
5-22-1864 Port Huron MI married: Mary
Linton
Died:
7-?-1943 obit:
[1867 – 5/?/1940]
1897 admitted on trial, Detroit Conference
Interment:
Riverhurst Cemetery, Endicott NY
Obit:
Wyoming Conference 1944, 842
1897-07 conference Evangelist
1907-13 Detroit Conference
Capac
Peck
1913 “transfer”
to Wyoming Conference
1921-23 Hawleyton
Little
Meadows
Union
Center
Willett
1929-31 Lockwood
1931 retired
Note: Fred G. Beane is an uncle to
Roy H. Beane. He served in the Wyoming
Conference as a local preacher.
BEANE,
HAROLD.
Born:
married:
Died:
obit:
Interment:
Obit:
1921-22 Kirkwood
Note:
Harold Beane served as a supply preacher.
He is otherwise unknown.
BEANE, RALPH
Born:
married:
Died:
obit:
Interment:
Obit:
1947-48 Pleasant Mount (beginning 12/15/1947)
Note:
Ralph Beane was a student at Syracuse University.
BEANE, ROY HAROLD
Born:
1-31-1898 Port Huron MI married: Beatrice
Cooper
Died:
11-24-1974 Wilkes-Barre PA obit: Wyoming
Conference 1939, 589
married2:
Ruth O. Coon
1922 admitted on trial, Wyoming Conference obit2: Wyoming Conference 1973, 289
1930 ordained deacon married3: Janet Stevens
1932 ordained elder obit3: Wyoming
Conference 2005, 192
Interment:
Vestal Hills Memorial Park, Vestal NY
Obit:
Wyoming Conference 1975, 172
1919-21 Campville
1921-22 ?
1922-23 Laflin
1923-24 Eatonville
1924-32 student
1932-33 Choconut Center – Westville
1933-36 Springville – Dimock
1936-41 Mill City
1941-46 Askam – Sugar Notch
1946-48 Forest City
1948-50 West Nanticoke
1950-54 Skinner’s Eddy
1954-57 Courtdale – Larkesville
1957-60 Plains – Derr
1960-64 Hawley
1964 retired
Note: Roy H. Beane is the father of
Earl R. Beane and a nephew to Fred G. Beane.
BEASLEY-TOPLIFFE, KEITH R.
Born: 10-10-1951 married: Carola Beasley
Died: obit: [9/22/1951 – ]
1976 license, recommended by Brookline MA United Parish
1977 ordained deacon
1980 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
1976-78 Boston University School of Theology
1978-82 McClure NY
1982-86 Pittston
1986 transfer
to Central Pennsylvania Conference
1986-87 Farragut-Fairfield
1987-90 on
leave
1990-95 Saltillo
1995-96 Wiconisco
Wesley – Muir Grace
1996-97 student
1997-98 Harrisburg
Riverside
1998-99 Upper
Room Ministries
1999-03 Harrisburg
Fifth Street
2003-04 Forge
Hill
2004-05 sabbatical
leave
2005-12 Liverpool
2012-14 Duncannon
Asbury – Roseglen
2014-16 Burnham
– Milroy
2016 retired
Note: Carola Beasley-Topliffe is a member
of the Susquehanna Conference.
BECKER,
GEORGE J.
Born:
11-28-1880 Amsterdam NY married: Louise K.
Godfrey
Died:
9-29-1964 Stamford NY obit:
[7/22/1883 – 8/?/1973]
1909 ordained, Presbytery of Jersey City
Interment:
Roxbury Methodist Cemetery, Roxbury NY
Obit:
Wyoming Conference 1965, 241
1910 transfer
to the Presbytery of Newark
1910-15 Montclair NJ Grace Presbyterian
1915-19 Patterson NJ Lakewiew Presbyterian (beginning 1/27/1915)
1919- Schoharie NY Federated
Bayonne
NJ First Reformed (11 years)
1943 “transfer”
to Wyoming Conference of the Methodist Church
1943-46 Lanesboro
1946-50 Oxford
1950-52 Hartwick
1952 retired
1955-57
Bloomville
Note: George J. Becker graduated
from Syracuse University (1906) and Columbia University Union Seminary
(1909).
BEEBE, CHESTER CUSHMAN
Born: 5-27-1901 Oswegatchie NY married: Agnes Bertha Elizabeth Schulze
Died: 2-26-1985 Zephyrhills FL obit: [4/23/1904 – 11/20/1997]
1922 license
1925 admitted
on trial
1934 ordained
elder
Interment: New Era Cemetery, New Era
PA
Obit:
1922-26 Preston
1926 transfer
to Central New York Conference
1945 transfer
to Genesee Conference
Note: Chester C. Cushman was a
retired member of the Western New York Conference at the time of his death, but
apparently there was no conference obituary.
BEERS, GEORGE DWIGHT
Born:
5-26-1887 Berkshire NY married: Lula
Ely
Died:
1-23-1973 Cortland NY obit: Wyoming
Conference 1964, 237
1945 ordained local deacon
1952 ordained local elder
Interment:
Evergreen Cemetery, Berkshire NY
Obit:
Wyoming Conference 1973, 281
1932-34 Chenango Forks
1938-39 West Chenango
1939-53 Choconut Center
1953-60 Berkshire
1960 retired
Note: George D. Beers is the son of George O.
Beers. He served as a local preacher.
BEERS, GEORGE OSBORN
Born:
11-7-1846 Middlebury CT married: Clara
Matilda Taylor
Died:
4-7-1931 Johnson City NY obit: Wyoming
Conference 1911, 108
married2:
Clarissa M. Bunnell
1866 exhorter’s license obit2: Wyoming Conference
1931, 577
1867 local preacher’s license
1874 admitted on trial, Wyoming Conference
1876 ordained deacon
1878 ordained elder
Interment:
Berkshire NY
Obit:
Wyoming Conference 1931, 569
1873-76 Rush
1875-77 Jenningsville
1877-80 West Nicholson
1880-83 Springville
1883-86 Maine
1886-89 Berkshire
1889-93 Skinner's Eddy
1893-96 Candor
1896-99 Hornbrook and Ghent
1899-04 Le Raysville
1904-08 Gibson
and South Gibson
1908-12 Berkshire
1912-14 Franklin
Forks
1914-15 Triangle
1915-18 Windham
1918-21 Hawleyton
1921-23 Union
Center
1923-24 Castle
Creek
1924 retired
Note: George O. Beers is the son of Rev. Ebenezer O. Beers
(1818-1847) of the New York Conference, the father of George D. Beers, and the
grandfather of John George Easton and of Rev. John Taylor Beers (1914-1990) of
the North Central New York Conference. A
biographical sketch of George O. Beers appears in Chaffee’s 1904 History of the Wyoming Conference, page
277.
BEERS, LAURENCE TURNEY
Born:
5-24-1915 Walton NY married:
Florence C. Blackman
Died:
9-19-1980 Pottstown PA obit:
[6/20/1916 – 8/18/1956]
married2:
Mabel Harley
? ordained, Baptist Church obit2:
Interment:
Bateman Memorial Cemetery, Newport NJ
Obit:
Wyoming Conference
1970 “transfer”
to Wyoming Conference of the United Methodist Church
1970-72 Trucksville
1972-76 Wilkes-Barre Firwood (ending 3/30/1976)
1976 withdrew
BELKNAP, JOHN D.
Born:
11-6-1855 NY married: Lulu M.
Doane
Died:
10-27-1925 Syracuse NY obit: [5/2/1864
– 1/6/1944]
1883 ordained deacon
1886 ordained elder
Interment:
Oakwood Cemetery, Syracuse NY
Obit:
1881-83 Garrattsville
1883-84 Worcester
1884-85 on
leave
1885-86 Candor
1886-89 on
leave, evangelist
1889 located
“transfer”
to Congregational Church
Note: John D. Belknap is the son of
evangelist Almeron D. Belknap (1827-1909).
He traveled throughout the state of New York as an evangelist. He also served the First Congregational
Church of Mount Vernon NY.
BELL, GEORGE M.
Born:
9-22-1871 Framwellgate Moor, England married: Nellie Griswold
Died:
12-28-1967 Kingston PA obit: Wyoming
Conference 1946, 453
1896 admitted on trial, Wyoming Conference
1898 ordained deacon
1900 ordained elder
Interment:
Forty Fort Cemetery, Forty Fort PA
Obit:
Wyoming Conference 1968, 241
1895-97 Lackawaxen
1897-01 Narrowsburg
1901-05 Ariel
1905-08 Binghamton
Clinton Street
1908-12 Union
1912-16 Athens
1916-22 Kingston
1922-28 superintendent,
Wilkes-Barre District
1928-34 Johnson
City
1934-41 superintendent,
Wilkes-Barre District
1941-44 Dorranceton
1944 retired
Note: A biographical sketch of George M. Bell appears
in Chaffee’s 1904 History of the Wyoming
Conference, page 278.
BELLEN, ROSEMARY
Born: married:
Died: obit:
local
preacher’s license
Interment:
Obit:
2001-10 Westville
2010 charter
member of Upper New York Conference
BENEDICT, GEORGE BERNARD SR.
Born: 3-18-1853 Plymouth NY married:
Alice Maria Queal [8/17/1881]
Died: 9-20-1912 Santioree, PR obit: Puerto
Rico Mission Conference 1906, 55
married2: Margaret Throop Hill
1881 admitted on trial, Detroit Conference obit2: [10/23/1873 - ?]
Interment:
Obit: General Minutes spring 1913, 61 [Puerto Rico Mission Conference]
1881-83 North Branch
1883-84 Sand Beach
1884-85 Croswell
1885-93 faculty, Wyoming Seminary
1892-93 Decatur
1893 transfer to Wyoming Conference
1893-95 missionary, Iquiqui Chile
1895 transfer to South America Conference
Note:
Mrs. Benedict is the daughter of William G. Queal. She was previously married (3/14/1866) to a
George Henry Dewey.
BENEDICT, HASKELL BYRON
Born:
11-21-1858 Schenevus NY married: Rebecca
Van Zandt
Died:
3-11-1912 Montrose PA obit: Wyoming
Conference 1935, 641
1884 exhorter’s license, Schenevus
1885 local preacher’s license, Otsego
1886 admitted on trial, Wyoming Conference
1888 ordained elder
1890 ordained deacon
Interment:
Schenevus NY
Obit:
Wyoming Conference 1912, 131
1884-85 South Hill
1885-86 Laurens
1886-87 Laurens and Oneonta Plains
1887-91 Sidney
1891-92 Scranton Hampton Street
1892-94 Otego
1894-96 Worcester
1896-98 Unadilla
1898-02 Montrose
1902-04 Owego
1904-12 Montrose
Note: A biographical sketch of Haskell B. Benedict
appears in Chaffee’s 1904 History of the
Wyoming Conference, page 279.
BENGE, JAMES
Born:
1840 Stapleton, England married: Sabra
Wakeman
Died:
1-17-1897 Harpursville NY obit:
1886 admitted on trial, Wyoming Conference
Interment:
Obit:
Wyoming Conference 1897, 89
1886-88 Wells Bridge
1888 transfer
to South America Conference
1888-95 missionary to Iquique, Chile
1895-96 on leave
1896-97 Harpursville, Wyoming Conference
Note: James Benge is a cousin to
Albert B. Richardson. He had been a
local preacher in England before coming to America in 1886. The Christian
Advocate gives his death date as 1/11/1897.
BENJAMIN, CHARLES ALFRED
Born:
1-27-1858 Scranton PA married:
Minnie Newton Jansen
Died:
12-27-1936 Philadelphia PA obit: Wyoming
Conference 1947, 728
Philadelphia Conference 1946, 470
1877
exhorter’s license
1881 local preacher’s license
1883 ordained deacon, Wyoming Conference
1885 ordained elder, Wyoming Conference
Interment:
Arlington Cemetery, Lansdown PA
Obit:
Wyoming Conference 1937, 149
Philadelphia Conference 1937, 173
1878-79 Norwich
1879-81 Lisle
1881-83 Whitney's Point
1883-86 Sherburne
1886-90 Schenevus
1890-93 West Pittston
1893-98 Honesdale
1898-99 Jermyn
1899-02 Athens
1902-05 Scranton Asbury
1905 transfer
to Philadelphia Conference
1905-06 Philadelphia Christ
1906-10 Philadelphia Eden
1910-11 Allentown Linden Street
1911-15 Philadelphia Emmanuel
1915-16 Philadelphia Mariner’s Bethel
1916-18 Philadelphia Twentieth Street
1918-20 Mahanoy City
1920-22 Philadelphia Pitman
1922-23 Roxboro Emmanuel
1923 retired
Note: Charles A. Benjamin is the father of Clarence J.
Benjamin (1883-1969) and of Charles Dow Benjamin (1894-1950), both of the
Philadelphia Conference. A
biographical sketch of Charles A. Benjamin appears in Chaffee’s 1904 History of the Wyoming Conference, page
280.
BENJAMIN, CLARENCE JANSEN
Born:
3-24-1883 Lisle NY married: Agnes Elvey
Died:
9-13-1969 Hallstead PA obit: Eastern Pennsylvania
Conference 1975, 780
1904 admitted on trial, Wyoming Conference
1906 ordained decon
Interment:
Obit:
Eastern Pennsylvania Conference 1970, 387
1904-06 Hallstead
1906-07 Glen Moore, Philadelphia Conference
1907 transfer
to Philadelphia Conference, page 74
1907-08 Glen Moore
1908-10 East Lansdowne
1910-11 Landenberg and Kemblesville
1911-13 Quarryville
1913-15 Elam and Bethlehem
1915-18 Philadelphia Twenty-Second Street
1918-21 St. Clair
1921-22 Middletown
1922-26 faculty, Wesleyan Seminary int Lima NY
1926-49 on leave
faculty, Olney High School in Philadelphia
1949 retired
Note: Clarence J. Benjamin is the son of Charles A. Benjamin
and a brother to Charles Dow Benjamin (1894-1950) of the Philadelphia
Conference.
BENJAMIN, KEITH F.
Born: married:
Julie _____
Died: obit:
1988 admitted
on trial, Wyoming Conference
1988 ordained
deacon
1991 ordained
elder
Interment:
Obit:
1988-89 student
1989-93 Great Bend (beginning 1/1/1989)
1993-01 Noxen
2001-04 Wilkes-Barre First and Abbott
2004-08 Wilkes-Barre First and Ashley Centenary
2008-10 Carbondale
2010 charter
member of Upper New York Conference
BENNETT, EDGAR L.
Born: 1-1-1846 Smyrna NY married: Latie J. Fradenburgh
Died: 10-2-1898 Smyrna NY obit: Wyoming Conference 1919,145
1875 admitted on trial
1877 ordained deacon
1879 ordained elder
Interment: Smyrna NY
Obit: Wyoming Conference 1899,105
1875-76 Jackson
1876-79 Chenango
1879-82 Guilford
1882-85 Lisle
1885-86 North Fenton and New Ohio
1886-91 Binghamton Chenango Street
1891-92 Pittston
1892 retired
Note: A brief biography of Edgar Bennett appears in Chaffee’s 1904 History of the Wyoming Conference, page 155.
BENNETT, LUCIEN S.
Born: 2-22-1810 Norwich NY married:
Selina Miller
Died: 8-3-1851 Wilkes-Barre PA obit: Wyoming
Conference 1893,88
1834 admitted on trial, Oneida Conference
Interment: Wilkes-Barre PA
Obit: General Minutes 1852, 151
1834-35 Bridgewater
1835-36 Brooklyn
1836-38 Canaan
1838-39 Dundaff
1839-40 Windsor
1840-41 Canaan
1841-42 Bethany
1842-44 Wyoming
1844 retired
1847-48 Tunkhannock
1852 charter member of Wyoming Conference
Note: A brief biography of Lucien
Bennett appears in Chaffee’s 1904 History
of the Wyoming Conference, page 156.
BENNETT, M.L.
Born: married:
Died:
obit:
1856 admitted on trial, Wyoming Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1855-56 Lackawaxen
1856-57 Thompson
1857 no longer listed
Note:
A Rev. M.L. Bennett served Baptist churches in Chenango County NY: Bainbridge
Center 1858-59, Mount Upton 1859-60.
BENNINGER, JAMES
Born:
1-1-1867 Auburn Center PA married: Emily [Emma]
V. Colburn
Died:
11-27-1951 Tampa FL obit: Wyoming
Conference 1963, 234
1890 ordained local deacon
1892
admitted on trial, Wyoming Conference
1894 ordained elder
Interment:
Garden of Memories, Tampa FL
Obit:
Wyoming Conference 1952, 1151
1886-90 student, Wyoming Seminary
1890-92 student, Drew Theological Seminary
1890-92
Alderson
1892-95 Harvey’s Lake
1895-98 Lehman
1898-06 Scranton Embury
1906-10 Plymouth PA
1910-12 West Pittston
1912-18 Scranton Simpson
1918-25 Binghamton Centenary
1925-31 superintendent, Scranton District
1931-36 Dorranceton
1936 retired
Note: A biographical sketch of James Benninger
appears in Chaffee’s 1904 History of the
Wyoming Conference, page 284.
BENSLEY, JANE M.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1997 admitted
on trial, Wyoming Conference
1997 ordained
deacon
1999 ordained
elder
Interment:
Obit:
1997-00 New Hope Faith and Stairville–Slocum
2000-03 Rome–Orwell
2003-05 Fairdale
2005-10 Springville (beginning 7/15/2005)
2010 charter
member of Upper New York Conference
BENSON, JAMES JAY
Born: 9-12-1928 Scranton PA married:
Euna Lee _____
Died: 6-16-2006 Northborough MA obit: [3/27/1929 – 12/28/2008]
1954 admitted
on trial, Wyoming Conference
1956 ordained
deacon, New York Conference
1957 ordained
elder
Interment: [cremated] First UMC,
Hendersonville NC
Obit:
1954-55 student, Drew University in Madison NJ
1955 transfer
to New York Conference
1955-56 student
White Sulphur Springs & Harris
1956-62 Monticello
1962-66 Yonkers First
1966-67 Yonkers Church of the Master
1967-81 Hicksville
1981-87 superintendent, Connecticut Central District
1987-91 New Canaan CT
1991 retired
BENSON, ROBERT LEE
Born: 2-18-1931 Holden WV married:
Shirley Elizabeth Jones
Died: 10-24-2012
Wilmington DE obit:
Wyoming Conference 2000, 302
1953 admitted
on trial, Wyoming Conference
1954 ordained
deacon
1955 ordained
elder
Interment: Delaware Veterans
Memorial Cemetery, Bear DE
Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2013,
262
1953-54 student
1954056 Gouldsboro
1956-76 chaplain, U.S. Air Force
1976 Tioga
Center
1976-80 Waverly NY
1980-82 superintendent, Oneonta District
1982-86 Dallas (ending 8/31/1986)
1986-87 sabbatical (beginning 9/1/1986)
1987-88 Dallas
1988-90 Binghamton Boulevard
1990-95 chaplain, Homes for the Aging
1995 retired
2010
transfer to Susquehanna Conference by boundary change
BENTLEY, DIANNE H.
Born: married:
Vaughn Glover
Died: obit:
married2:
Chris Bentley
obit2:
1994 local
preacher’s license, recommended by Moscow
1997 admitted
on trial, ordained deacon, Wyoming Conference
1999 ordained
elder
Interment:
Obit:
1994-97 Sterling (beginning 10/1/1994)
1997-06 Sayre
2006-08 Sayre and Hornbrook
2008-10 Union Corners
2010 transfer
to Susquehanna Conference by boundary change
2010-18 East Canton
2018-20 Jefferson – Greenmount
2020-21 Honesdale Central
2021 retired
Note: Vaughn Glover is an ordained
member of the Wyoming Conference.
BENTLEY, W.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Interment:
Obit:
1912-13 Throop
Note: W. Bentley served as a supply
pastor. Nothing else is known about him.
BERLEN, HERMAN D.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1926 admitted
on trial
Interment:
Obit:
1926 transfer
to New England Conference
Dorchester
MA
Taunton
MA
BERRY, LAURENCE MILTON
Born:
4-3-1936 married:
Judith G. _____
Died:
10-4-2000 obit:
[11/11/1942 – ]
1978 admitted on trial, Wyoming Conference
1983 ordained deacon, Peninsula Conference
Interment:
Valley View Cemetery, White Mills PA
Obit:
1978-81 student
1981 transfer
to Peninsula Conference
1981-82 Felton
1982-89 associate,
Wilmington Aldersgate
1989-92 General
Board of Global Ministries
1992 transfer
to North Georgia Conference
BERRY, WINTON FLAY
Born: 11-27-1913 married:
Waty Florine Douglas [12/15/1938]
Died: 10-2-1981 obit:
1944 admitted
on trial
Interment: Restland Memorial Park,
Carthage TX
Obit:
1944 transfer
to North Texas Conference
BEVAN, JOHN M.
Born:
12-5-1924 Wilkes-Barre PA married: Margaret
Louise Dabbs
Died:
2-?-2000 Sumter SC obit:
[11/18/1925 – ]
1946 admitted on trial, Wyoming Conference
Interment:
Salem Black River Presbyterian Cemetery, Sumter SC
Obit:
1946-51 student
1951 discontinued
Note: Dr. John M. Bevan went on to a
distinguished career in higher education, as demonstrated by the many
references in print and on the Internet to his effective and innovative methods
as a professor and an administrator. He is remembered at Eckerd College in St.
Petersburg FL through The John M. Bevan Award presented to an outstanding
faculty member each year and The Bevan Memorial Scholarship awarded annually to
rising juniors who are a catalyst for positive innovative programs within the
college and community at large.
BEZNER, LISA JO
Born: married:
Died: obit:
local
preacher’s license
Interment:
Obit:
2008-09 Otego
2009-10 Otego–Sand Hill
2010 charter
member of Upper New York Conference
BIBBINS, ELISHA
Born: 7-16-1790 Hampton NY married:
Alice Lathrop
Died: 7-6-1859 Scranton PA obit:
[5/8/1791 – 1/?/1877]
1812 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference
Interment: Orwell PA
Obit: Wyoming Conference 1860, 47
1812-13 Wyoming
1813-14 Chenango
1814-15 Bridgewater
1815-16 Wyalusing
1816-17 Broome
1817-18 Cortland
1818-19 Wyalusing
1819-20 Shamokin
1820-22 Wyoming
1822-24 Canaan
1824 retired
1829 charter member of Oneida Conference
1852 charter member of Wyoming Conference
Note: Elisha Bibbins is the father of
Robert Kendall Bibbins (1824-1898) of the Rock River Conference – and a first
cousin to Samuel Bibbins (1796-1877) of the Detroit Conference, the father of
Elisha Bibbins (1823-1875) of the Detroit Conference. A brief biography of Elisha Bibbins appears
in Chaffee’s 1904 History of the Wyoming
Conference, page 156.
BICKFORD, JOHN HELPS
Born:
11-21-1859 Lancaster OH married: Alice
Hovey Dean
Died:
1-3-1926 North East MD obit:
Pittsburgh Conference 1947, 766
1879 local preacher’s license
1882 ordained local deacon
1886 ordained local elder
1887 admitted on trial, South Indiana Conference
Interment:
North Eat United Methodist Cemetery, North East MD
Obit:
Pittsburgh Conference 1926, 428
1879 Truit's
Chapel (mid-year), Michigan Conference
1879-80 Big Rock Circuit, Rock River Conference
1880-81 Somonauk, Rock River Conference
1881-83 Little Rock and Jericho, Rock River Conference
1883-84 La Moille, Rock River Conference
1884-86 student, DePauw University
1885
Malden and Arlington (mid-year), Rock River Conference
1885-86
Harmony and Knightsville, Rock River Conference
1886-87 Rushville, Southeast Indiana Conference
1887 join
Southeast Indiana Conference
1887-90 Rushville
1890 Indianapolis
Central Avenue (part year, if at all)
1890-91 Parkersburg First, West Virginia Conference
1891 transfer
to West Virginia Conference
1891-92 Parkersburg First
1892 transfer
to North Indiana Conference
1892-95 Anderson Meridian Street
1895 Fort
Wayne Wayne Street (part year)
1895 transfer
to East Ohio Conference
1895-97 Akron First
1897 transfer
to Pittsburgh Conference
1897-01 Pittsburgh Smithfield Street
1901 transfer
to Wyoming Conference
1901-05 Wilkes-Barre First
1905 transfer
to Philadelphia Conference
1905-06 Philadelphia Christ
1906 transfer
to Wyoming Conference
1906-08 Oneonta
1908 transfer
to Ohio Conference
1908-09 Columbus Wesley Chapel
1909 transfer
to Central Ohio Conference
1909-10 Toledo Epworth
1910 transfer
to Erie Conference
1910-11 Meadville First [aka Stone]
1911 transfer
to West Virginia Conference
1911-13 Crafton/Andrews
1913 transfer
to Baltimore Conference
1913-14 superintendent, Maryland General Hospital
1914-17 Frostburg
1917 transfer
to Wilmington Conference
1917-19 New Castle
1919 transfer
to Pittsburgh Conference
1919-20 Woodlawn First
1920-21 Monessen
First
1921-22 Millvale
1922 retired
Note: The ministerial career of John H. Bickford is
difficult to reconstruct. He served as a
student/local pastor until formally joining the Southeast Indiana Conference in
1887. For a time, his education and
oratorical skills made him one of the pastors of that era that went from
conference to conference supplying prominent pulpits. A biographical sketch of John H.
Bickford appears in Chaffee’s 1904 History
of the Wyoming Conference, page 283.
BIERLY, EDWIN SYLVERIUS
Born: 6-20-1869 Rebersburg PA married: Sarah Catherine Erhard (1897)
Died: 1954 Pensacola FL obit: [1872-1938]
1899 license, recommended by Spring Mills
1908 admitted on trial, recommended by Port Matilda
1912 ordained local dean, Wyoming Conference, recommended by Bethany
Interment: St. Peter’s Lutheran & Reformed Cemetery, Rebersburg PA
Obit:
1901 East Falmouth MA (3 months)
1904 South Dakota
1905-06 York Springs
1906-07 Alum Bank
1907-09 Port Matilda
1909-10 Pine Grove Mills
1910-11 Burnt Cabins
1911 discontinued
1911-13 Bethany, Wyoming Conference
Note: Some sources give the first
name as EDWARD. Edwin S. Bierley is an
1898 graduate of Williamsport Dickinson Seminary. Some biographical information appears in the
Ministerial Qualifications Book, page 59.
Mrs. Bierly is a sister to Rev. Clyde Erhard “of Texas” (dates and
affiliation unknown).
BIGSBY, JON RICHARD
Born:
6-9-1941 married:
Maija Veidins _____ [5/9/1963]
Died:
obit:
1971 admitted on trial, Wyoming Conference
1974 ordained deacon, New England Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1971-73 student
1973 transfer to New England
Conference
1973-74 Mansfield – Rehoboth
1974-75 Westford
1975-80 chaplain
1980 transfer to New Mexico
Conference
1980-84 chaplain
1984 withdrew
1995-02 St. Paul’s Lutheran, Karnes City TX
(beginning 9/1/1995 and ending 2/10/2002)
2002 retired (beginning 2/10/2002)
Note: Jon Richard Bigsby is the author of A Soviet Latvian and His Revelation of a
Socialist Society (1963).
BILL, ALAN S.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
local
preacher’s license
Interment:
Obit:
2002-05 Lockwood
2005-09 Lockwood & Barton & Halsey Valley
2009-10 Lockwood & Bartom
2010 charter
member of Upper New York Conference
BINKLEY, JOHN GRANT
Born:
8-19-1933 married:
Judith _____
Died:
12-17-2009 obit:
[9/1/1935 – ]
1956 license, Wyoming Conference
1958 admitted on trial, Wyoming Conference
1960 ordained deacon, California-Pacific Conference
Interment:
Landis Valley Mennonite Cemetery, Lancaster PA
Obit:
1956-59 Pleasant
Mount
1959 transfer
to California-Pacific Conference
1959-61 Big
Pine
1961-65 Los
Angeles Eastmont
1965-70 Placentia
1970-73 Norwalk
First
1973-74 sabbatical
leave
1974-75 student
1975 located
BIRD, WILLIAM LESTER
Born:
9-19-1915 Doniphan MO married:
Katherine Andrews
Died:
7-7-1976 Cincinnati OH obit: West
Ohio Conference 2013, 371
1940 admitted on trial, Northern Illinois
Conference
1945 ordained deacon, St. Louis Conference
Interment:
Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery, Oakville MO
Obit:
West Ohio Conference 1977, 240
1941-43 New Milford - Davis
1943 transfer
to Wyoming Conference (10/9/1943)
1943-44 Scranton Elm Park
1944 transfer
to St. Louis Conference (6/1/1944)
1954-57 Kansas City Aldersgate
1957-60 Kansas City Melrose
1960 transfer
to Southern Illinois Conference
1960-62 Alton First
1962-68 Effingham Centenary
1968 transfer
to West Ohio Conference
1968-69 Cincinnati Mount Healthy
1969-76 Cincinnati Epworth
Note: Following the death of William
L. Bird, Katherine married a Mr. Schwab.
BIRTCH, DONALD
Born: married:
Died:
obit:
? license
Interment:
Obit:
2000-01 Brookvale
Note: Donald Birtch lived in
Binghamton NY and served as a local preacher.
BITLER, KENNETH W.
Born: 10-5-1953 married:
Sandra Leah Meachem Mitchem
Died: obit:
Susquehanna Conference 2011, 393
1973 local
preacher’s license, West Virginia Conference
1981 admitted
on trial, Wyoming Conference
1981 ordained
deacon
1983 ordained
elder
Interment:
Obit:
1973-75 Bellington circuit
1975-76 Talcott
1976 transfer
to Wyoming Conference
1976-78 Waymart
1978-81 student
1980-81 Kauffman’s, Eastern
Pennsylvania Conference
1981-83 Oxford
1983-88 Camptown
1988-93 Meshoppen (ending 1/1/1993)
1993-94 on leave (beginning 1/1/1993)
1994-00 Fairdale
2000-07 Susquehanna
2007-09 Jermyn and Dunmore
2009-10 on leave
2010 transfer
to Susquehanna Conference by boundary change
Note: Mrs. Bitler is the daughter of
Rev. James C. Mitchem (1929-1995) of the West Virginia Conference.
BIXBY, WILLIAM
Born: 8-19-1814 Bainbridge NY married:
Laura Stewart Starr
Died: 12-20-1889 Bainbridge NY obit: Wyoming
Conference 1884, 61
1837 admitted on trial, Oneida Conference
Interment: Riverside Cemetery, Oneonta NY
Obit: Wyoming Conference 1890, 83
1837-38 Chenango
1838-39 Exeter
1839-41 Otsego
1841-42 Cooperstown
1842-44 Homer
1844-46 Oxford
1846-48 Otsego
1848-50 Hartwick
1850-52 Cincinnatus
1852 charter member of Wyoming Conference
1852-54 Ames
1854-58 superintendent, Chenango District
1858-62 superintendent, Cazenovia District
1862-64 Ithaca
1864-65 Skaneateles
1865-69 superintendent, Otsego District
1869-71 superintendent, Honesdale District
1871-73 Owego
1873-75 Providence
1875-76 Marathon
1881-82 on leave
1882-84 Gilbertsville
1884-86 Westville
1886-88 Lanesboro
1888 retired
1888-1889 Nanticoke (beginning 11/1888)
Note: A brief biography of William
Bixby appears in Chaffee’s 1904 History
of the Wyoming Conference, page 157.
BLACK, WILBUR W.
Born: 3-16-1935 married:
Carolyn _____
Died: 6-30-2019 obit:
1981 local
preacher’s license
Interment: Fairview Memorial Park,
Elmhurst PA
Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2020, ?
1980-89 Equinunk
1989-90 (not appointed)
1990-97 West Nicholson
1997 retired
2010
transfer to Susquehanna Conference by boundary change
Note: Wilbur W. Black served as a
local preacher.
BLACKIE, JEAN M.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
local
preacher’s license
2007 admitted
on trial, Wyoming Conference
Interment:
Obit:
2001-02 Jermyn
2002-07 Moosic
2007-10 Damascus
2010 transfer
to Susquehanna Conference by boundary change
2010-16 Damascus
2016-19 Moscow
2019-23 Dalton - Factoryville
BLAIR, ANN S.
Born: married:
Larry McMaster
Died: obit:
1987 admitted
on trial, Wyoming Conference
1987 ordained
deacon
1989 ordained
elder
Interment:
Obit:
1987-89 associate, Clarks Summit
1989-90 Windsor
1990-95 Scranton Simpson – West Park
1995-96 Scranton Simpson – West Park – Court Street
1996-97 Scranton Simpson – West Park
1997-02 Skinners Eddy
2002-06 Morris
2006-10 Binghamton High Street
2010 charter
member of Upper New York Conference
Note: Ann S. Blair is reported to be
the daughter of a pastor in another conference.
BLAIR, HIRAM GILBERT
Born:
4-23-1836 Waymart PA married:
Caroline [Carrie] E. Morgan
Died:
4-19-1914 North Towanda PA obit:
Wyoming Conference 1896, 102
marrried2:
Sarah Sherwood
1875 exhorter’s license, Hyde Park Simpson obit2: [5/6/1858 – 1/12/1933]
1876 local pastor’s license
1877 admitted on trial, Wyoming Conference
Interment:
Hornbrook PA
Obit:
Wyoming Conference 1914, 109
1876-77 South Danby
1877-80 Harford
1880-81 Flemingville
1881-81 Litchfield
1882-81 Hornbrook
1883-81 Union Center
1884-86 Jackson
1886-89 Kirkwood
1889-91 Plymouth NY
1891-93 Greene
1893-95 Castle Creek
1895-96 Lisle
1896-97 Smyrna
1897 retired
Note: A biographical sketch of Hiram G. Blair appears
in Chaffee’s 1904 History of the Wyoming
Conference, page 281.
BLAIR, WILLIAMS T.
Born:
4-26-1861 Kingston PA married: Mary
Jane Strickland
Died: obit:
Wyoming Conference 1906, 112
married2:
Margaret Rhoads [1912]
? exhorter’s license, Carbondale obit2: [b. 1881]
? local preacher’s license,
Carbondale
1890 admitted on trial, Wyoming Conference
1892 ordained deacon
Interment:
Obit:
1889-91 Bainbridge
1891-94 Cooperstown
1894-99 Mount Upton
1899-01 Whitney's Point
1901-02 Lehman
1902-10 Wyoming
1910-12 Plymouth PA (ending 9/2/1912)
1912 withdrew
from the ministry; see 1913, page 81
Note: In 1912 Williams T. Blair re-married, left the
ministry, and moved to Michigan. The
1920 census still shows him in Wayne County MI. He later apparently returned to
the area and is the author of The Michael
Shoemaker [Schumacher] Book (1924), a Luzerne County
biographical/genealogical study. A
biographical sketch of Williams T. Blair appears in Chaffee’s 1904 History of the Wyoming Conference, page
284.
BLAKE,
CHARLES WESLEY
Born:
7-24-1817 married:
Ann Greenfield
Died:
3-17-1893 obit:
[1/20/1813 – 3/22/1883]
married2:
Mary Electa Jewett
obit2:
[1/27/1838 - ]
Interment:
Evergreen Cemetery, Brooklyn PA
Obit:
1869-71 Canaan, Pennsylvania Conference of
the Methodist Protestant Church
1872-75 Lackawaxen
1875-77 Rileyville
Note: C.W. Blake is the father of Susannah
Blake Price, wife of George T. Price. He
served as a local preacher and had been a chaplain in the Civil War. In 1902 the second Mrs. Blake married widower
Mr. Jason S. Wright.
BLAKE, CLARENCE GERALD JR
Born: 3-4-1931 Carbondale PA married:
Lois Lorraine Reedy
Died: 9-24-2016 obit:
Wyoming Conference 1993, 346
married2:
Gladys Fortuna
obit2:
local
preacher’s license, recommended by Forty Fort
1954 admitted
on trial, Wyoming Conference
1954 ordained
deacon
1967 ordained
elder
Interment: Willow View Cemetery,
Clifford township, Susquehanna County PA
Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2017,
279
1951 Gouldsboro
Highway (May-June)
1952-53 Thornhurst
1953-56 Thornhurst – Daleville
1956-60 (not appointed)
1960-61 Harford
1961-81 Apalachin Park Terrace
1981-87 North Fenton
1987-89 Tioga Center
1989-91 Wilkes-Barre Firwood
1991-94 Bethany
1994 retired
1994-98
Factoryville
1998-99
Afton (11/1/1998 – 2/1/1999)
1999
Deposit – North Sanford
(2/1/1999 – 6/30/1999)
2000
Equinunk (7/1/2000 –
10/31/2000)
2010
transfer to Susquehanna Conference by boundary
change
Note: Gladys Fortuna-Blake is an
ordained member of the Wyoming Conference.
BLAKESLEE, GEORGE HARMON
Born: 10-28-1819 Springville PA married: Hester Ann Cargill
Died: 7-26-1876 Cortland NY obit:
[9/22/1824 – 1/11/1906]
1837 exhorter’s license
1840 local preacher’s license
1841 admitted on trial, Oneida Conference
Interment: Cortland NY
Obit: Wyoming Conference 1877, 34
1841-42 Vestal
1842-43 Brooklyn
1843-44 Wyoming
1844-45 Brooklyn
1845-46 Vestal
1846-48 Dundaff
1848-50 Pike
1850-52 Nichols