Northern Tier Pastors
These are pastors
who served northern tier Pennsylvania Methodist churches before 1852 when the
Wyoming Conference was formed or before 1962, when the conference boundaries were
adjusted to match state lines and those remaining Pennsylvania churches entered
the Central Pennsylvania Conference. The
dates/charges they served involving post-2010 Susquehanna Conference territory
are highlighted in bold face type. Pastors who transitioned into the Wyoming
Conference in 1852 or the Central Pennsylvania Conference in 1962 appear in
those data bases and so do NOT appear in this data base.
Prior to 1852 the
eastern northern Pennsylvania charges were served variously by the Baltimore and
Philadelphia Conferences (prior to 1810), the Genesee Conference (1810-1829),
and the Oneida Conference (1829-1852).
Prior
to 1962 the more western charges were served by conferences based in New York
state – mainly the Genesee Conference (Potter and western Tioga counties) and
Central New York Conference (Bradford and eastern Tioga counties).
Notes:
This region was involved in several boundary changes before joining the Central
Pennsylvania Conference in 1962.
(1)
The
Genesee Conference was split from the Philadelphia Conference in 1810 and
became the mother conference for the area from which all the other conferences
were split off. It still existed in 1962
– except that from 1872-76, for one quadrennium, it was called the Western New
York Conference.
(2)
The
Oneida Conference was split off from the Genesee Conference in 1829, and the
Wyoming Conference and Central New York Conference were split off from the
Oneida Conference in 1852 and 1868 respectively. Pastors who transferred from the Oneida
Conference into the newly-formed Wyoming Conference in 1852 do NOT appear in
this list and appear in the “regular” Wyoming Conference list.
(3)
The
East Genesee Conference was split off from the Genesee Conference in 1848 and
dissolved in 1872 when it was split between the Genesee [then temporarily
called Western New York] Conference and Central New York Conference.
(4)
In
1876, the Pennsylvania churches east of US 15 were placed in the Genesee
Conference. [Officially, this is what happened in 1876: The East Genesee
Conference was restored, and then it was immediately joined to the Western New
York Conference to re-form the Genesee Conference, essentially as it had been
in 1848 when the East Genesee Conference was split off.]
(5)
In
1880, the Pennsylvania churches east of US 15 were returned to the Central New
York Conference.
The
northern tier churches therefore were generally served as follows:
1810-1848 Genesee Conference
[1829-1852 split between Genesee Conference
and Oneida Conference]
1848-1872 East Genesee Conference
1872-1876 split between Genesee [Western New York]
Conference and Central New York Conference
1876-1880 Genesee Conference
1880-1962 split between Genesee Conference and
Central New York Conference
ABBOTT,
ASA G.
Born:
9-11-1803 VT [or PA?] married:
Phebe Bushnell
Died:
2-11-1877 Chenango County NY obit: [6/1/1804 – 4/17/1882]
Interment:
Westview Cemetery, German Four Corners NY
Obit:
1841-42 Westfield
Note:
The 1889 Free Baptist Cyclopedia states: “He entered the ministry with the
Methodists at an early age, but later removed to Chenango County NY and spend
the last twenty years of his ministry with the Free Baptists.”
ABRAHAMS,
THOMAS S.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1865 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 him 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.
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
ADAMS,
CHARLES MILTON
Born:
3-11-1853 married:
Stella M. Prutsman
Died:
7-12-1931 obit:
Central New York Conference 1919, 135
1880 admitted on trial, Texas Conference
1880 ordained deacon, Texas Conference
1885 ordained elder, Central New York Conference
Interment:
Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Port Byron NY
Obit:
Central New York Conference 1931, 766
1880-81 Henrietta
1881-82 Terrytown, Central New York
Conference
1882 transfer to Central New York
Conference
1882-84 Leona
1884-85 Gorham
1885-88 Burlington
1888-90 Mainesburg
1890-92 Millport and Pine Valley
1892-95 Mecklenburg
1895-99 Seneca Castle
1899-00 Chittenango
1900-01 Ludlowville
1901-02 Liverpool
1902-03 Red Creek
1903-05 South Onondaga
1905-06 Burdette
1906-11 on leave
1911 retired
ADAMS,
JOHN ROBERT
Born:
5-1-1859 married:
Marian Baldwin
Died:
10-25-1942 obit:
Genesee Conference 1932, 126
1884 license
1888 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference
1890 ordained deacon, Genesee Conference
ordained
elder
Interment:
North Chili Rural Cemetery, North Chili NY
Obit:
Genesee Conference 1943, 643
1888-91 Clarkson and Sweden
1891-94 Lockport Second
1894-99 Bergen
1899-07 Albion
1907-11 Batavia
1911-13 Hornell Park
1913-18 Corning First
1918-20 Galeton
1920-22 Canisteo
1922-27 Bath First
1927-29 Attica
1929 retired
1931-32 Knowlesville
and Eagle Harbor (part year)
1932-34 West
Barre
ADAMS,
LEVI DELANO
Born:
4-16-1873 Eldred PA married:
Lillian Wilson
Died:
10-8-1954 obit:
Genesee Conference 1952, 141
1893 license to preach
1897 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference
1899 ordained deacon, Genesee Conference
ordained
elder, Genesee Conference
Interment:
Hartland Central Cemetery, Hartland NY
Obit:
Genesee Conference 1955, 823
1897-98 Sawyer City
1898-00 Covington
1900-03 Mt. Alton
1903-04 Stannards and Shongo
1904-08 Ceres
1908-14 Hartland
1914-17 Somerset
1917-20 Knoxville
1920-31 Marilla
1931-38 Eden
1938 retired
AGARD,
HORACE
Born:
5-26-1785 Litchfield CT married:
Lovina L. _____
Died:
1-8-1850 Nichols NY obit:
married2:
Mary Polly Stone (8/14/1808)
1819 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference obit2: [9/26/1783 – 11/25/1867]
1821 ordained deacon, Genesee Conference
1823 ordained elder
Interment:
Asbury Cemetery, Nichols NY
Obit:
Oneida Conference 1850, 498
1819-20 Catharine
1820-21 Wyalusing
1821-22 Spener
1822-23 Owego
1823-25 Broome
1825-26 Wyalusing
1826-29 superintendent,
Susquehanna District
1829 charter member of the Oneida
Conference
ALLATT,
GEORGE HANSON
Born:
7-12-1849 York, England married: Ella
Ellis
Died:
4-20-1918 Hicksville NY obit: Genesee
Conference 1942, 462
1884 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference
1886 ordained deacon, Genesee Conference
ordained
elder, Genesee Conference
Interment:
Bethpage Cemetery, Farmingdale NY
Obit:
Genesee Conference 1918, 111
1884-85 Ebenton
1885-88 Gaines
1888-90 Cameron
1890-92 Jasper
1892-97 Newfane
1897-00 Chili
1900-03 Royalton
1903-05 Hilton
1905-07 Clarence
1907-08 assistant, Newfane and Olcott
1908-09 on leave
1909 retired
Note
George H. Allatt is the brother of James W. Allatt.
ALLATT,
JAMES WILLIAM
Born:
1-11-1861 York, England married: Louisa
Bowers
Died:
1-23-1950 Avon NY obit: Genesee Conference
1939, 743
1898 license to preach
1899 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference
1901 ordained deacon, Genesee Conference
1903 ordained elder, Genesee Conference
Interment:
Avon Cemetery, Avon NY
Obit:
Genesee Conference 1950, 549
1897-98 Big Creek (last half of the year)
1898-01 Little
Marsh
1901-04 Cameron
1904-07 Canaseraga
1907-09 Mecedon Center and Perinton
1909-15 Avon
1915-22 Victor
1922-24 Penfield
1924-29 Avon
1929 retired
1929-30 Greigsville
1931-32 Scottsville
1932-33 Fowlersville
1933-35 Scottsville
ALLINGTON,
FRANK JAY
Born:
4-3-1857 married:
Jennie Benedict
Died:
7-14-1937 obit:
Central New York Conference 1912, 147
married2:
Leonora Linsley
1895 license to exhort obit2: Central New York
Conference 1926, 602
1896 license to preach
1899 admitted on trial, East Genesee Conference
1901 ordained deacon, East Genesee Conference
1903 ordained elder, East Genesee Conference
Interment:
Nettle Valley Cemetery, Potter NY
Obit:
Central New York Conference 1937, 272
1896-00 Sheldrake
1900-02 Beaver Dams
1902-05 Burdette and Reynoldsville
1905-08 Mainesburg
1908-09 Martville, Ida and Bethel
1909-26 North Lansing and Asbury
ANDERSON,
EVERETT AUGUSTINE
Born:
5-24-1856 Granger NY married:
Catherine E. Beers [1899]
Died:
2-27-1927 Bath NY obit: Genesee
Conference 1938, 576
1895 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference
1897 ordained deacon, Genesee Conference
ordained
elder, Genesee Conference
Interment:
Obit:
Genesee Conference 1927, 776
1895-96 Lawrenceville
1896-98 Greenwood
1898-02 Tioga
1902-07 East
Charleston
1907-09 Cameron
1909-10 Cohocton
1910-11 Darien
Note:
Everett A. Anderson was a newspaper publisher for some years before entering
the ministry. Mrs. Anderson [aka Kathryn
E. Anderson] is buried in the Evergreen Cemetery, Tioga PA, and so may Everett
A. Anderson.
ANDRESON,
SOREN HENRY FIANE
Born:
2-22-1912 Brooklyn NY married:
Gertrude May Crouch [1937]
Died:
4-10-1987 Norfolk VA obit:
[8/191914 – 4/4/1995]
1935 license
1940 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference
1942 ordained deacon, Genesee Conference
1943 ordained elder
Interment:
Rosewood Memorial Park, Virginia Beach VA
Obit:
1937-40 Roulette
1940-43 Castile
1943-44 Friendship
1944-60 chaplain, US Navy
1960 located
Note:
S. Henry Andreson and Gertrude Crouch graduated from Houghton College in 1939,
where his name is given as HENRY SOREN ANDRESON. He graduated from Colgate-Rochester Divinity
School in 1943. He appears to be living
in Norfolk VA in 1961. This surname name
appears on the grave markers and in the SSDI as ANDRESEN.
ANDREWS,
HENRY CRANMER
Born:
2-20-1848 married:
Lydia Lora Oltz
Died:
9-23-1932 obit:
Central New York Conference 1925, 327
1870 license to exhort
1871 license to preach
1877 admitted on trial, Central New York
Conference
1879 ordained deacon, Central New York Conference
1881 ordained elder, Central New York Conference
Interment:
Hillside Cemetery, Dundee NY
Obit:
Central New York Conference 1932, 168
1871-72 Millerton
1872-73 Breesport
1873-74 Pompey Hill
1874-75 Oran
1875-76 not appointed
1876-77 Georgetown
1877-79 Pratt’s Hollow
1879-80 Clockville
1880-82 Union Valley
1882-85 Morrisville
1885-86 Mottville
1886-88 Williamson
1888-90 Troy
1890-93 Phoenix
1893-96 Newfield
1896-99 Cayuga and Fosterville
1899-02 Seneca Castle and Hopewell Center
1902-05 Dundee and Starkey
1905-09 Middlesex and Vine Valley
1909-10 Rose and Butler Center
1910-11 Fleming and Scipioville
1911-15 Trye and Junius
1915-17 Bridgeport
1917-18 Euclid
1918-20 Kirkville
1920 retired
ANDREWS,
HOWARD ISRAEL
Born:
4-1-1873 married:
Lena Burton
Died:
2-16-1940 obit:
Central New York Conference 1972, 160
1891 license to exhort
1894 license to preach
1899 admitted on trial, East Genesee Conference
1899 ordained deacon, East Genesee Conference
1903 ordained elder, East Genesee Conference
Interment:
Maple Grove Cemetery, Clyde NY
Obit:
Central New York Conference 1940, 105
1898-99 East Homer (last four months)
1899-00 Montezuma
1900-04 Groton
1904-06 Trumansburg
1906-08 Seneca, Castle and Hopewell Center
1908-10 Elmira Riverside
1910-16 Penn Yan
1916-24 Towanda
1924-26 Auburn First
ANDRUS,
FRANK GUION
Born:
9-16-1874 Byram CT married:
Ethlyn Mighells [6/8/1911]
Died:
2-16-1951 Wyoming NY obit: Genesee
Conference 1954, 591
1902 license
1904 admitted on trial, Northern New York
Conference
1913 ordained deacon, Central New York Conference
ordained elder
Interment:
Warsaw Cemetery, Warsaw NY
Obit:
Genesee Conference 1951, 780
1904-05 Point Peninsula
1905-07 Three Mile Bay
1907-08 Ox Bow
1908-09 Ava
1909 discontinued
1910 “transfer” to Central New York
Conference
1910-12 Terrytown
1912-14 Elmira Pennsylvania Avenue
1914-16 Chemung
1916 “transfer” to Congregational
Church
1916-19 Richford
1919-23 Black Creek
1923 “transfer” to Genesee Conference
of the Methodist Episcopal Church
1923-25 Wyoming
1925-28 Shinglehouse
1928-29 Greenwood
1929-30 Prattsburg
1930-33 Cameron
1933-34 Genesee and Shongo
1934-35 Caneadea
1935-38 Wyoming
1938-41 Dexter
and Middle Ridge
1938-40 Delmar
1941 retired
ANGUS,
DAVID
Born:
7-15-1867 Scotland married:
Catherine Adeline Sherwin (11/28/1891)
Died:
12-17-1947 Johnsonburg NY obit: [8/26/1867 –
5/4/1936]
married2:
Ruby A. Syler (6/15/1937)
Interment:
Hinsdale Cemetery, Maplehurst NY obit2:
[2/22/1887 – 5/9/1959]
Obit:
[Genesee Conference 1948, 121]
1907-09 Delmar
1928-38 Johnsonburg
Note:
David Angus served as a supply preacher.
He is otherwise unknown.
ARCHER,
R. WAYNE
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Central New York Conference
1940 admitted on trial, Central New York
Conference
1942 ordained deacon, Central New York Conference
ordained
elder
Interment:
Obit:
Central New York Conference
1940-41 Blodgetts Mills – Freetown – East
Freetown
1941-43 Burdett – Reynoldsville
1943-48 Newfield – Trumbulls – West Danby
1948- Blossburg
…
faculty, Onondaga
Community College
Note:
R. Wayne Archer taught Ebglish and is the author of the 1995 book Fast and Loose with Mother Goose and Other
Stuff.
ARCHIBALD,
JOHN WALTER
Born:
4-3-1858 Alpine NY married:
Helen Weston (1882)
Died:
3-13-1945 DeLand FL obit:
Genesee Conference 1928, 112
married2:
Mrs. Anna K. Flyte Conrad Bryant (c1934)
1881 license obit2:
Genesee Conference 1937, 364
1884 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference married3: Alice Griggs (1937)
1887 ordained deacon, Genesee Conference obit3: Genesee Conference 1951, 783
ordained
elder
Interment:
Forest Lawn, Buffalo NY
Obit:
Genesee Conference 1945, 316
1881-82 Youngstown
1882-83 Holland
1883-84 Bowmansville
1884-85 Belmont
1885-87 Ellicottville
1887-88 Turtle Point
1888-89 Sanborn
1889-91 Delevan
1891-92 Arcade
1892-93 Colden, Boston and West Falls
1892-99 on leave
1893-96 Alden
1896-97 Derrick
City
1898-99 Stafford
1899-00 Stafford
1900-02 Birdsall
1903-04 Alexander
1904-05 Scottsburg ans Sparta
1905-07 West Sparta
1907-11 Johnsonburg
1911-13 Wiscoy
1913-15 Hinsdale
1915-17 Cameron
1917-19 West Valley
1919-20 Woodhull
1920-21 Westfield
1921-22 Cohocton
1922-25 Hamlin
1925-26 Bristol Center
1926-28 East Otto
1928 retired
1928-32 Elicottville
Note:
The second Mrs. Archibald (nee Flyte) was the widow of a Mr. Jonas B. Conrad
(1860-1887) and a Mr. Warren G. Bryant (1865-1924).
ARMITAGE,
JOHN B.
Born:
4-30-1820 Galen NY married:
Mary P. Reynolds
Died:
4-30-1884 Ionia NY obit:
[11/15/1833 – 3/7/1903]
1854 admitted on trial, Wisconsin Conference
1857 ordained deacon, East Genesee Conference
ordained
elder, East Genesee Conference
Interment:
Millers Corners Cemetery, Ionia NY
Obit:
1856 transfer to East Genesee
Conference
1856-57 Canadice
1857-58 Enfield
1858-59 Baldwin
1859-60 Millport
1860-61 Loyalsock
1861-62 Ridge
1862-64 Taylorsville
1864-65 Grove
1865 located
1867-68
Millers Corners [Ionia]
Note:
John B. Armitage attended the Methodist school in Lima NY, where he met his
wife. He retired to take up farming at
Ionia (then called Millers Corners) in 1866.
ARMSTRONG,
WILLIAM
Born:
5-31-1828 Blantyre, Scotland married: Emeline
Charlotte Perry
Died:
6-8-1889 Millers Corners NY obit: Genesee Conference
1916, 141
1854 admitted on trial, East Genesee Conference
1856 ordained deacon, East Genesee Conference
ordained
elder, East Genesee Conference
Interment:
Main Street Cemetery, Canton PA
Obit:
Genesee Conference 1889, 128
1854-56 Brookfield
1856-58 Ulster
1858-59 Monroeton
1859-60 conference missionary
1860-61 Southport
1861-63 Hector
1863-64 Milo Center
1864-66 Wellsville
1866-72 retired [on leave?]
1872 transfer to Genesee Conference
by change of boundaries
ARNOLD, WILLIAM BUFFINGTON
Born:
7-20-1885 New York NY married: Annette
K. Henwood (4/14/1914)
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 Rev.
Calvin V. Arnold (1822-1900) of the Wyoming Conference. Mrs. Arnold is buried in the Forest Hill
Cemetery in Dunmore PA, but the burial site for W.B. Arnold is not known.
ASQUITH,
FRANK WESLEY
Born:
12-16-1868 Germantown PA married: Leonora Conn
Died:
3-19-1943 Scio NY obit: Genesee Conference
1950, 562
1897 license, Baptist Church
Interment:
Fairlawn Cemetery, Scio NY
Obit:
Genesee Conference 1943, 645
1897-99 Montgomery WV
1899-03 East Pharsalia NY
1903-05 Fleming NY
1905-07 Easton PA
1907-13 Susquehanna PA
1913-18 missionary work in NY, VT and PA
1918 “transfer” to Genesee Conference
of the Methodist Episcopal Church
1918-19 Hinsdale
1919-21 Scio
1921-22 Ellicottville
1922-23 Osceola
1923-25 Gainesville
1925-28 North Ridge
1928-29 Alden
1929-31 Royalton, West Royalton and West
Shelby
1931-34 Holland and Protection
1934-35 Knowlesville and Eagle Harbor
1935-36 Genesee and Shongo
1936-37 Alabama and Basom
1937 retired
AUSTIN,
JOEL H.
Born:
10-4-1826 Tioga County PA married: Irene Amanda
“Irena” Ludington
Died:
3-15-1909 Goshen IN obit:
[8/2/1831 – 1/29/1902]
1858 admitted on trial, East Genesee Conference
1860 ordained deacon, East Genesee Conference
ordained
elder, East Genesee Conference
Interment:
Oakridge Cemetery, Goshen IN
Obit:
1858-59 Frenchtown
(French
Asylum)
1859-60 Charlestown
1860-62 Chatham
(Little
Marsh)
1862-64 Brookfield
1864-66 Caton
1866-67 Enfield
1867-69 Beaver Dams
1869-70 Tuscarora
1870 expelled
AVERY,
HENRY THOMAS
Born:
7-28-1819 Groton CT married:
Mary Ann Avery (4/16/1844)
Died:
9-4-1890 Scott AR obit: [9/11/1801 –
12/11/1867]
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, East Genesee Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1852-53 Broome
1853-54 Vestal
1854-55 Flemingville
NY
1855-56 Colley
(Sullivan County PA)
1856 transfer
to East Genesee Conference
1856-58 Loyalsock
1858-60 Canton
1860 located
Note: Some sources list hus birthplace as Wayne
County PA. Henry T. Avery moved to Iowa,
where there is no record that he served as a pastor. Chaffee’s 1904 History of the Wyoming
Conference, page 775, states that H.T. Avery served Ulster-Athens 1859-60 but
left in mid-year “because of discouragements.”
This agrees with his 1860 location, but not with printed records of the
East Genesee Conference. There was a
Rev. H.T. Avery in the Methodist Protestant Church in Oklahoma in the late
1800’s. The widowed second Mrs. Avery
married [1892] a Mr. Edgar Bowen (1837-1901) and then [1907] a Rev. Roswell
Benjamin Moore (1834-1909), affiliation unknown.
AYRES,
WEBB WILFORD
Born:
6-14-1896 NY married: Peral
Murnan
Died:
12-9-1988 Kenosha WI obit:
[3/6/1891 – 11/28/1975]
1921 license
1924 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference
1928 ordained deacon, Genesee Conference
1930 ordained elder
Interment:
Prospect Hill Cemetery, Perry Center NY
Obit:
Genesee Conference
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
1947-48 withdrew
1948-50 Westfield
– North Fork – Cowanesque
1950-52 Mount Morris
1952-55 Caton – South Corning
1955-60 Buffalo Sumner Place – Lovejoy
1959-60 St.
Andrew
1960-61 Corning Bethany – Coopers Plains
1961 retired
BABCOCK,
JOHN WESLEY
Born:
9-29-1900 Howland Me married:
Bernice May Fleming
Died:
4-6-1987 Clarence NY obit:
[2/12/1910 – 12/29/2007]
1931 license
1938 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference
1940 ordained deacon, Genesee Conference
ordained
elder
Interment:
Howland Cemetery, Howland ME
Obit:
Western New York Conference 1987, 329
1931-34 Little
Marsh
1934-38 Woodhull
1938-40 Avoca and Wallace
1940-48 Naples
1948-50 Middleport
1950-56 Marlia – Alden
1956- Alden
BACHMAN,
LEWIS FRANKLIN.
Born:
11-29-1912 married:
Ellen Inez Wheeler
Died:
1-31-1999 obit:
[10/29/1913 – 3/20/2007]
1941 admitted on trial, Central New York
Conference
1943 ordained deacon, Central New York Conference
ordained
elder
Interment:
Nelson Cemetery, Nelson NY
Obit:
North Central New York Conference 1999, 249
1941-42 student
1942-45 Beaver Dams – Townsend
1945-48 North
Towanda – Luther’s Mills – Durell
1948- Canton,
Ward
Note:
Lewis F. Bachman is the father of Neale George Bachman (1943-1997) of the North
Central New York Conference.
BACON,
HOWARD SMITH
Born:
2-15-1884 Victory NY married:
Delaphine Bennett
Died:
4-29-1971 Lake Worth FL obit:
Central New York Conference 1979, 285
1904 license to preach
1908 admitted on trial, Central New York
Conference
1910 ordained deacon, Central New York Conference
Interment:
Obit:
Central New York Conference 1971 143,146
1904-06 North Huron
1906-07 Venice Center
1907-09 Union Valley
1909-12 Cuyler
1912-15 Fayetteville
1915-19 Lysander and Little Utica
1919-21 Williamson
1921-26 Canton
BAILEY,
ARTHUR JAMES
Born:
3-17-1880 Centerville NY married:
Katherine Elizabeth Davies (12/25/1901)
Died:
1-1-1957 Wellsville NY obit: Genesee
Conference 1959, 906
1916 license
1917 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference
1919 ordained deacon, Genesee Conference
ordained
elder
Interment:
Forest Hills Cemetery, Belmont NY
Obit:
Genesee Conference 1957, 391
1916-18 Johnsonburg First
1918-23 Machias
1923-25 Salamanca People’s
1925-30 Eldred
1930-34 Olean – People’s – Allegany
1934-43 Shinglehouse – Ceres
1943-52 Genesee – Shongo –
Stannards
1952 retired
1952- Kanona
– Wheeler – Mitchelville – Towlesville
Note:
Some sources give Mrs. Bailey’s maiden name as Davis.
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, Wyoming Conference
1880 admitted on trial, Wyoming Conference
1882 ordained deacon, Wyoming Conference
1884 ordained elder, Wyoming Conference
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
BALMER,
JOHN ERNEST
Born:
5-6-1883 Delhi, Ontario married: Ivy Mast
[1907]
Died:
12-21-1921 Bolivar NY obit: Western
New York Conference 1976, 241
license
admitted
on trial, Detroit Conference
ordained
deacon
ordained
elder
Interment:
Maple Lawn Cemetery, Bolivar NY
Obit:
Genesee Conference 1922, 488
Transfer to Genesee
Conference
1918-19 Coudersport
Note:
J. Ernest Balmer is the preferred usage.
BARBERRY,
HERMAN L.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1924 license
1928 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference
1935 ordained deacon, Genesee Conference
ordained
elder
Interment:
Obit:
1924-26 Roulette
1926-28 Cary IL
1928-35 North Chicago IL
1935-38 Troupsburg
1938-39 Westfield
1939- Canisteo
New York City Marble Collegiate
Church
Note:
The Roulette historical booklet describes H.L. Barberry as “an English
bachelor.” He apparently was associated
for a time with the Marble Collegiate Church in NYC, but not as the lead
pastor. In 1984, he spoke at the
Jacksonville Methodist Campmeeting in East Machias ME – but he is no linger
listed in the General Minutes as a UMC pastor.
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 the
Episcopal Church
-64 assistant,
Philadelphia Grace
1864-81 Lancaster St. John’s
1881- Carbondale Trinity
…
1896 “transfer” to Wyoming Conference
Note: Thomas B. Barker is a
brother to Rev. Abel Gunn Barker (1811-1886) of the Wyoming Conference, and he
is an uncle to Rev. William Morris Barker (1854-1901), a bishop in the
Episcopal Church. 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.”
BARNETT,
JOHN WESLEY
Born:
5-27-1852 Gloucester, England married: Alice M. Sweet
Died:
9-10-1925 Weymouth MA obit: Genesee
Conference 1939, 744
1877 license to preach
1878 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference
1880 ordained deacon, Genesee Conference
ordained
elder, Genesee Conference
Interment:
Obit:
Genesee Conference 1925, 349
1877-78 Conesus
1878-79 Knoxville
1879-80 East
Troy
1880-83 Johnsonburg
1883-86 Friendship
1886-87 Westfield
1887-89 Wayland
1889-94 Portville
1894-97 Bolivar
1897-99 Port Allegany
1899-02 Duke Center
1902-04 Springwater and Canadice
1904-06 Hartland
1906-10 Millville
1910-11 Garland and Otis
BARRETT,
ALLEN L.
Born:
6-10-1916 Bradford County PA married: Hilda
Elsbree
Died:
12-27-1997 Flagler Beach FL obit:
[9/4/1923 – 5/12/2013]
1943 admitted on trial, Central New York
Conference
1945 ordained deacon, Central New York Conference
ordained
elder
Interment:
Union Cemetery, East Smithfield PA
Obit:
Florida Conference 1998, 275
1943-45 associate, Tobey Larger Parish
1945-47 Caton
1947- East
Canton – Windfall – west Leroy – West Franklin
Note:
Allen L. Barrett is the son of Owen C. Barrett and a brother to James W.
Barrett (1926-2015) of the Upper New York Conference.
BARRETT,
OWEN CHARLES
Born:
5-21-1890 Berrytown PA married: Flora
Bessie Briggs
Died:
8-20-1976 Sayre PA obit:
Central New York Conference 1967, 186
1914 license to preach
1918 admitted on trial, Central New York
Conference
1920 ordained deacon, Central New York Conference
1922 ordained elder, Central New York Conference
Interment:
Glenwood Cemetery, Troy PA
Obit:
Central New York Conference 1977, 226
1914-15 New
Albany
1917-18 Laquin
(part year)
1918-21 Enfield and Kennedy’s
1921-26 East
Canton
1926-33 East
Troy, Leona and West Burlington
1933-37 Blossburg
1937-47 East
Smithfield, Wetona and Big Pond
1947-52 Daggett, Webb Mills and
Roseville
1952-58 East
Canton, Windfall and West Franklin
1958 retired
1958-63 East Smithfield
1963-76 assistant,
Troy
Note:
Owen C. Barrett is the father of Allen L. Barrett.
BASFORD,
LEONARD FREDERICK
Born:
2-17-1891 Cambridge, England married: Edith Grace
Dunning
Died:
8-8-1984 DeWitt NY obit:
Central New York Conference 1972, 160
married2:
Bessie Harriet Ward
1914 license to preach obit2: North Central New
York Conference 1992, 357
1916 admitted on trial, East Genesee Conference
1919 ordained deacon, East Genesee Conference
1921 ordained elder, East Genesee Conference
Interment:
White Chapel Memory Gardens, DeWitt NY
Obit:
Central New York Conference 1985, 223
1914-17 Daggett
1917-20 Perryville
1920-22 Chittenango
1922-26 Preble
1926-36 Troy
and Columbia Cross Roads
1936-45 Syracuse Centenary
1945- Elmira Oakwood
Note:
The second Mrs. Basford (nee Ward) was the widow of a Mr. Paul Montgomery
Sherman (1883-1946) and a Mr. Guy Edward Crist (1893-1953)
BATTEY,
ARTHUR WILSON
Born:
1-13-1865 married:
Carrie Belle Webster
Died:
6-18-1938 obit:
Central New York Conference 1964, 159
1891 license to exhort
1892 license to preach
1893 admitted on trial, East Genesee Conference
1895 ordained deacon, East Genesee Conference
1897 ordained elder, East Genesee Conference
Interment:
Evergreen Cemetery, Scipioville NY
Obit:
Central New York Conference 1938, 433
1893-94 Venice
1894-97 Butler Center
1897-01
Nelson and Erieville
1901-03 DeRuyter
1903-07 Stockbridge
1907-11 Sodus
1911-13 Waterloo
1913-16 Mansfield
1916-20 Weedsport
1920-26 Solvay
BAYFORD,
WILLIAM THOMAS HEPTINSTALL
Born:
3-14-1869 Barnsley, England married: Maud Mary
Greenwood [9/18/1894]
Died:
11-26-1944 Dansville NY obit: Western New York Conference 1966, 822
1888 license, Wesleyan Methodist Church in
England
1916 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference
1918 ordained deacon, Genesee Conference
ordained
elder
Interment:
Green Mount Cemetery, Dansville NY
Obit:
Genesee Conference 1945, 318
1888- Barnsley
Harrogate
Barnard Castle
South Shields
Keighley
-13 Jarrow
on Tyne
1913-16 Wheeler, Genesee Conference of the
Methodist Episcopal Church
1916 “transfer” to the Genesee
Conference
1916-19 Cohocton
1919-20 Lawrenceville
1920-25 Naples
1925-29 Dansville
1929-31 Medina
1931-38 Arcade
1938 retired
BAYLIS,
DOUGLAS WILLIAM
Born:
7-8-1886 London, England married: Gladys H.
Hawthorne
Died:
1-28-1959 Ocean Grove NJ obit: Central New
York Conference 1983, 252
1913 admitted on trial, Central New York
Conference
1915 ordained deacon, Central New York Conference
ordained
elder
Interment:
Monmouth Memorial Park, Tinton Falls NJ
Obit:
Central New York Conference 1959, 147
1913-14 Liberty
Corners and Asylum
1914-15 Wellsburg
1916-20 Caton
1920-23 Elmira Epworth
1923-26 Ithaca State Street
1926-29 Elmira West Side
1929-37 Mansfield
1937- North Syracuse
BEACH,
A.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Genesee Conference
admitted
on trial, Genesee Conference
ordained
deacon, Genesee Conference
ordained
elder, Genesee Conference
Interment:
Obit:
Genesee Conference
1872 transfer to Central New York
Conference by change of boundaries
1876 transfer to Genesee Conference
by change of boundaries
1879-81 Chatham
DBEDFORD,
RICHARD JR.
Born:
9-17-1812 England married: Arvilla Wheat
[1838]
Died:
1-31-1884 obit:
[8/4/1811 – 11/19/1877]
Interment:
Greenwood Cemetery, Sullivan County PA
Obit:
1869-70 Dushore
and Wilmot
Note:
R. Bedford served as a supply pastor. He
had been a Methodist pastor in Vermont.
About 1850 he relocated about 5 miles from Forksville to care for an
aged parent, and become a farmer and a local preacher. He was Sullivan County’s first county
superintendent of public schools, a representative in the State Legislature,
and an associate judge.
BEERS,
ALVA ELLSWORTH
Born:
6-24-1902 Lexington NE married: Ruth
Idell Adriance (6/16/1928)
Died:
5-25-1951 Cleveland OH obit:
[12/24/1897 – 8/30/1996]
1927 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference
Interment:
Marion Cemetery, Marion OH
Obit:
North-East Ohio Conference 1951, 742
1928-29 Gaines (did not finish
the year)
1929 discontinued (“left his charge
without permission” – page 229)
Note:
Alva E. Beers is the son of Rev. Wilbert Lincoln Beers (1861-1921), affiliation
unknown.
BEERS,
JOHN TAYLOR
Born:
5-14-1914 married:
Edna Viola Dumond
Died:
4-16-1990 obit:
North Central New York Conference 1997, 360
1937 admitted on trial, Central New York
Conference
1942 ordained deacon, Central New York Conference
ordained
elder
Interment:
Obit:
North Central New York Conference 1990, 336
1937-39 student
1939-41 Forksville,
Estella, Bethel and Hillsgrove
1941-42 Cheningo, Taylor and Taylor Center
1942-46 Georgetown
1946-48 Ledyard – West Genoa – Venice Center
1948- South Butler – Butler Center
Note:
John T. Beers is the grandson of George O. Beers (1846-1931) and a first cousin
to John G.B. Easton (1912-1995), both of the Wyoming Conference.
BEERS,
NATHAN NOBLE
Born:
10-13-1815 Mendon NY married:
Mary Maria Lewis [9/4/1836]
Died:
3-7-1896 Naples NY obit:
[5/27/1817 – 11/26/1872]
married2:
Mrs. Lenora Hurd Agard [11/12/1873]
1844 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference obit2: [1826 – 3/19/1875]
1846 ordained deacon, Genesee Conference married3: Mary Hodge
[9/20/1875]
ordained
elder, Genesee Conference obit3:
Genesee Conference 1927, 798
Interment:
Rose Ridge Cemetery, Naples NY
Obit:
Genesee Conference 1896, 133
1848 charter member of East Genesee
Conference
1848-49 on leave
1849-51 Townsendville
1849-50 Lodi
1851-53 Mecklenburg
1853-55 Catherine
1855-57 Chemung
1857-59 Bath
1859-61 Lawrenceville
1861-62 Rushville
1862-63 Ovid
1863-65 Dundee
1865-66 Canisteo
1866-67 Cohocton
1867-69 Avoca
1869-70 Prattsburg
1870-72 Pulteney
1872 transfer to Central New York
Conference by change of boundaries
1876 transfer to Genesee Conference
by change of boundaries
Note:
The second Mrs. Beers (nee Hurd) was the widow of a Dr. Daniel M. Agard
(1819-1870).
BENJAMIN,
ALANSON
Born:
1-17-1802 Middleburgh NY married: Ruth A.
_____
Died:
5-5-1888 obit:
[d. 6/7/1843]
license
admitted
on trial
ordained
deacon
ordained
elder
Interment:
Marathon Cemetery, Marathon NY
Obit:
Central New York Conference 1888, 92
Oneida Conference
1841-43 Orwell
Central New York
Conference
Note:
Mrs. Benjamin is buried in the Orwell Hill Cemetery, Bradford County PA.
BENNETT,
CHARLES WESLEY
Born:
7-18-1828 East Bethany NY married: Caroline
Bannister
Died:
4-17-1891 Evanston IL obit:
[1/20/1827 – 11/23/1896]
1857 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference
1861 ordained deacon, Troy Conference
ordained
elder, East Genesee Conference
Interment:
Rest Haven Cemetery, Phelps NY
Obit:
West Wisconsin Conference 1891, 60; Northern New York Conference 1891, 66
1859 transfer to Troy Conference
1862 transfer to East Genesee
Conference
1862-64 Penn Yan
1864-66 principal, Genesee Wesleyan Seminary
1866-68 on leave
1868-69 Penn Yan
1869-70 Towanda
1870-71 Elmira Hedding
1871-72 faculty, Syracuse University
1872 transfer to Central New York
Conference by change of boundaries
1879 transfer to Northern New York
Conference
1889 transfer to West Wisconsin
Conference
BLADES,
JOHN HOGG
Born:
4-17-1828 Westburton, England married: Helen Adeline
Woodin [8/20/1854]
Died:
4-12-1891 Addison NY obit: [1834 –
1/14/1862]
married2:
Mary Cromwell Ansley [1862]
1853 admitted on trial, East Genesee Conference obit2: [11/18/1834 – 10/25/1872]
1855 ordained deacon, East Genesee Conference married3: Helen Margaret Bailey [1873]
ordained
elder, East Genesee Conference obit3:
[7/31/1854 – 6/10/1918]
Interment:
Addison Rural Cemetery, Addison NY
Obit:
Genesee Conference 1891, 136
1853-54 South Sodus
1854-56 Bethel and Voakes
1856-58 Naples
1858-60 Addison
1860-62 Watkins
1862-65 Horseheads
1865-68 Troy
1868-71 Canisteo
1871-72 Knoxville
1872 transfer to Central New York Conference
by change of boundaries
1876 transfer to Genesee Conference
by change of boundaries
Note:
John H. Blades is the father of Rev. Ansley Baker Blades (1870-1941) of several
ME Conferences (see his page in the Central Pennsylvania Conference) and also
the Presbyterian Church. In 1891, the
widowed third Mrs. Blades married a Mr. George Blades (? - 9/15/1927),
relationship to John H. Blades uncertain.
BLANCHARD,
J.A.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
license,
East Genesee Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1870-72 Brookfield
Note:
J.A. Blanchard served as a supply pastor.
He is otherwise unknown. This may
be the James Alonzo Blanchard (1840-1912) buried in Jenksville NY.
BLISH, FRANCIS MARION
Born:
5-4-1874 Deposit NY married:
Mary Rose Whitford (1896)
Died:
11-24-1950 Sayre PA obit:
[12/19/1872 – 12/15/1904]
married2:
Mabel Clara Shattuck (1905)
1912 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference obit2: West Wisconsin Conference
1966, 765
Interment:
Ulysses Cemetery, Ulysses PA
Obit:
West Wisconsin Conference 1951, 662
1911-13 Oakland,
Wyoming Conference
West
Wisconsin Conference
1941-50 Ulysses, Central New York Conference
Note: Francis M. Blish is the father of Rev.
Francis M. Blish Jr. (1904-1992) of the United Church of Christ and of Harold
E. Blish.
BLISH,
HAROLD EDWIN
Born:
4-12-1912 Oakland PA married:
Lillian Mae Beals
Died:
8-25-2003 Jamestown NY obit:
Western New York Conference 1992, 339
1933 license
1937 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference
1939 ordained deacon, Genesee Conference
ordained
elder
Interment:
Alabama Cemetery, Alabama NY
Obit:
Western New York Conference 2004, 273
1933-35 Ionia
1935-37 East Groveland
1937-38 Gaines
1938-39 Whitneyville
– Round Top – Coolidge Hollow
1939-41 North
Bingham
and Whitesville
1941-42 Marilia – Alden
1942-44 ?
1844-46 Genesco – Griegsville
1946-48 Galeton
1948-51 North Cohocton – Cohocton – Lent Hill
1951-54 Angelica – Birdsall – West Almond
1954-58 Warren’s Corners – North Ridge
1958-62 Bradford Asbury – Custer City
1962-66 Honeoye Falls – Ionia
1966-69 Clymer – North Clymer
1969-74 South Byron
1974 retired
Note:
Harold E. Bush is the son of Francis M. Blish.
BLY,
G.
Born: married:
Died:
3-7-1875 obit:
license,
East Genesee Conference
Interment:
Obit:
Central New York Conference 1875, 90
1869-70 Blossburg
Note:
G. Bly served as a supply pastor. He is
otherwise unknown
BOOKS,
DONALD L.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
license
Interment:
Obit:
1954-56 Nelson
and Tompkins
Note:
Donald Books served as a supply preacher.
BOWMAN,
JOHN
Born:
5-24-1816 Kingston PA married:
Almira Maria Lewis [6/4/1836]
Died:
1-26-1903 Cedar Falls IA obit:
Upper Iowa Conference 1908, 91
1840 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference
1842 ordained deacon, Genesee Conference
ordained
elder
Interment:
Greenwood Cemetery, Cedar Falls IA
Obit:
Upper Iowa Conference 1903, 339
1840-42 Potter
mission [Coudersport]
1862 transfer to Upper Iowa
Conference
BOYD,
DONALD ROBERT
Born:
3-10-1911 Omaha NE married:
Hazel Marguerite Gramlich (8/4/1934)
Died:
7-15-2001 Penn Yan NY obit:
California-Pacific Conference 1990, 295
1934 admitted on trial, Nebraska Conference
1937 ordained deacon, New Hampshire Conference
ordained
elder
Interment:
cremated, ashes scattered in Pacific Ocean off the coast of California
Obit:
California-Pacific Conference 2002, J-3
1934-35 student
1935 transfer to New Hampshire
Conference
1935-36 student
1936-38 Moultonboro, East Sandwich and South
Tamworth
1938 transfer to Central New York
Conference
1938-40 East
Troy, West Burlington and Leona
1940-45 Troy
and Columbia Cross Roads
1945-47 Syracuse Centenary
1947- Penn Yan
…
transfer to California
Pacific Conference
Hollywood
Los Angeles First
BRACE,
SEVELLON ALDEN
Born:
2-18-1849 Bath NY married: Leve Susan Bundy
Died:
10-21-1919 Steuben County NY obit: Genesee Conference
1918, 122
1875 license to preach
1883 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference
1885 ordained deacon, Genesee Conference
ordained
elder, Genesee Conference
Interment:
Nondaga Cemetery, Bath NY
Obit:
Genesee Conference 1920, 97
1882-83 Leetonia
1883-84 Troupsburg
1884-85 Leetonia
1885-88 Sanborn
1888-89 Towlersville
1889-91 Pulteney
1891-94 Rathbone
1894-96 Laheside and Ontario
1896-99 Kendall
1899-01 Clarkson
1901-02 Knowlesville and Eagle Harbor
1902-04 Short Tract
1904-06 Bliss and Eagle
1906-09 East Groveland
1909 retired
Note:
The first name of Mrs. Brace is also reported as Lere.
BREWSTER,
GLENN STANLEY
Born:
11-4-1890 married:
Lulu J. Shank
Died:
4-22-1966 Auburn NY obit: [1893
– 1927]
married2:
Elta Norma Zimmerman [1/2/1928]
1912 license obit
2: Western New York Conference 1985, 322
1916 admitted on trial, Central New York
Conference
1918 ordained deacon, Central New York Conference
ordained
elder
Interment:
Chestnut Hill Cemetery, Union Springs NY
Obit:
Western New York Conference 1966, 819
1915-16 Conquest
1916-20 Ledyard
1920-21 Monrezuma
1921-23 Virgil
1923-26 student
1924-26 Mt.
Horeb NJ
1926 transfer to Genesee Conference
1926-28 Avova
1928-31 Lawrenceville
1931-36 Galeton
1936-38 Westfield
1938-41 Savona and Campbell
1941-43 Troupsburg and Woodhull
1942-43 Austinburg
1943-47 Cuba and Hinsdale
1947-53 Hartland
1953-55 West Barre and Eagle Harbor
1955-59 East Bloomfield and Allen’s Hill
1959 retired
BROCKWAY,
HERMON LYMAN
Born:
7-4-1875 Rawson NY married:
Grace Loomis [1898]
Died:
7-10-1956 obit:
Genesee Conference 1902, 138
married2:
Minette Elizabeth Metcalf
1895 license to preach obit2: [12/6/1876 –
1932]
1897 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference
1899 ordained deacon, Genesee Conference
ordained
elder, Genesee Conference
Interment:
Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Franklinville NY
Obit:
1897-98 Roulette
1898-00 Nelson
1900-01 attending school
1901-02 Hemlock
1902-06 attending school
1906-08 Alabama
1908-09 Medina
1909-11 Fairport
Note:
This first name also appears as Herman.
BRONSON,
SAMUEL MERWIN
Born:
11-6-1818 Wayne County NY married: Susan A.
(Goodrich?) – annulled
Died:
1-27-1888 Evansville MN obit:
married2:
Anna Amelia Nicholson
1848 admitted on trial, East Genesee Conference obit2: [10/4/1836 – 3/13/1907]
Interment:
Mound Grove Cemetery, Evansville MN
Obit:
1848-49 Painted Post
1849-50 Tioga
1850 discontinued
(moved
to Pennsylvania)
1855-56 Plainsville,
Wyoming Conference
(moved
to Iowa before 1859)
Charles
City
Fayette
Floyd
(moved
to Minnesota after 1871)
1878-80 Alexandria
(Congregational
Church)
1882-83 Evansville
1885-87 Wiscoy
Note:
This article appeared in the 4/3/1854 New
York Herald, morning edition, page 2.
The Senate of Pennsylvania did honor to itself in the passage of
the divorce of Mrs. Susan A. Bronson, from her brutal husband, Samuel M
Bronson. The lady in question is the daughter of a Methodist clergyman in the
State of New York, and is represented as not only amiable, but moral and
intelligent.
She became enamored with Bronson, and after a brief courtship, consented to
become his wife. It was
not long, however, before this act was regretted. About two years since, the
parties left Now York for Tioga County, Pennsylvania, where Bronson was
employed as a preacher of the gospel. After a residence of ten months, the
mother of Mrs. Bronson visited them. She soon discovered that her daughter was
in a decline. The conduct of Bronson. as testified to by the mother, was of
such a
character as to shock the heart of the most callous wretch The details of his
brutal treatment are harrowing to human nature, and totally unfit for
publication. The mother remonstrated with Bronson, but it was of no avail. Her
daughter on the occasion was found senseless, covered with blood, and carrying
upon her person some eight or nine black and blue spots. These facts became
known to the people when Mrs. Bronson was taken from the clutches of the brutal
wretch and sent to her friends in New York, where she now remains. Bronson fled, and has not since been heard
from.
Note2: Is it possible the NY/PA 1848-1850 Rev. Samuel M. Bronson
and the IA/MN 1859-1888 Rev. Samuel M. Bronson are two different people?
BRONSON,
WILLIAM A.
Born:
4-12-1822 Tompkins County NY married: Laura A. Bacon
Died:
2-22-1882 Irving MI obit:
Michigan Conference 1897, 218
1853 admitted on trial, East Genesee Conference
1855 ordained deacon, East Genesee Conference
ordained
elder, East Genesee Conference
Interment:
Rutland Cemetery, Hastings MI
Obit:
Michigan Conference 1883, 53
1853-54 Loyalsock
1854-55 Canisteo
1855-56 Whitesville
1856-57 Wellsboro
1857-58 Monroeton
and Frenchtown
1858-60 Catherine
1860-63 Canisteo
1863-64 Tuscarora
1864-65 on leave
1865-67 Andover
1867-68 Dresden
1868-69 Merchantville
1869 located
1869 “transfer” to Michigan
Conference
BROOKS,
RALPH D.
Born:
4-11-1825 Springfield PA married: Amanda
Chamberlain
Died:
1-9-1859 Burlington PA obit:
[2/18/1829 – 2/23/1916]
1850 admitted on trial, East Genesee Conference
1852 ordained deacon, East Genesee Conference
ordained
elder, East Genesee Conference
Interment:
Leona Cemetery, Leona PA
Obit:
East Genesee Conference 1859, 32
1850-51 Cherry
1851-52 Tyrone and Barrington
1852-53 Knoxville
1853-54 Knoxville
circuit
1854-56 West Addison
1856-58 Addison
1858-59 Burlington
(ending 1/1/1859)
Note:
Following the death of Ralph D. Brooks, the widowed Mrs. Brooks married a Mr.
Benjamin Ackley (1826-1903).
BROWN,
HENRY CLAY
Born:
11-3-1834 Springfield PA married: Charity
Ann _____
Died:
9-22-1860 Springfield PA obit:
1856 admitted on trial, East Genesee Conference
1858 ordained deacon, East Genesee Conference
ordained
elder, East Genesee Conference
Interment:
Grover Hill Cemetery, Springfield PA
Obit:
East Genesee Conference 1861, 29
1856-57 Brookfield
1857-59 Woodhull
1859-60 Cameron
1860 retired [on leave?]
Note: Twenty-five year old Henry C. Brown and his
wife and 1 year old daughter all appear to have died within the same year.
BROWN,
JOHN ARTHUR
Born:
2-6-1874 Boston MA married:
Elizabeth Ashley
Died:
1-3-1946 Richmond Center NY obit: [1877-1963]
1897 license to preach
1904 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference
1906 ordained deacon, Genesee Conference
ordained
elder, Genesee Conference
Interment:
Richmond Center Cemetery, Richmond Center NY
Obit:
Genesee Conference 1946, 520
1901-02 Covington
1902-06 Bradford
1906-07 Woodhull
1907-10 Tioga
and Farmington
1910-11 Hornell East Avenue
1911-14 Kanona
1914-15 Rushford
1915-22 on leave
1922 retired
Note:
John A. Brown is the brother of William J. Brown.
BROWN,
JOHN NELSON
Born:
8-16-1818 Milford NY married:
Eliza Ann Graham
Died:
8-4-1895 Rochester NY obit: Genesee
Conference 1914, 142
1841 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference
1843 ordained deacon, Genesee Conference
ordained
elder, Genesee Conference
Interment:
Union Cemetery, Livonia NY
Obit:
Genesee Conference 1895, 128
1848 charter member of East Genesee
Conference
1848-50 Towanda
1850-52 Lodi
1852-54 Dundee
1854-56 Palmyra
1856-58 Rochester North Street
1858-60 Phelps
1860-62 Clyde
1862-65 chaplain, 111th New York
Volunteers
1865-69 superintendent, Hornellsville
District
1869-72 Rochester North Street
1872 transfer to Central New York
Conference by change of boundaries
1876 transfer to Genesee Conference
by change of boundaries
BROWN,
JOHN SAMUEL
Born:
3-15-1853 Mill Creek PA married: Clara
Young “Nettie” _____
Died:
3-22-1925 obit:
Genesee Conference 1943, 651
1886 license to preach
1887 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference
1889 ordained deacon, Genesee Conference
ordained
elder, Genesee Conference
Interment:
Woodlawn Cemetery, Wellsville NY
Obit:
Genesee Conference 1925, 356
1886-87 Belmont
1887-89 Rixford and Summit City
1889-91 Ceres
1891-92 Greenwood
1892-94 Campbell
1894-96 Harrison
Valley
1896-98 Troupsburg
1898-01 Savona
1901-05 Allen’s Hill
1905-09 Lakeside and Ontario
1909-11 Chili
BROWN,
PAUL M.
Born:
6-2-1897 married:
Margaret Janie Launt
Died:
1-1-1986 obit:
1928 admitted on trial, Central New York
Conference
1930 ordained deacon, Central New York Conference
ordained
elder
Interment:
Obit:
North Central New York Conference 1986, 375
1928-29 student
1929-30 Brewerton
1930-32 associate, Elmira Hedding
1932-36 Montour Falls
1936-40 Troy
and Columbia Cross Roads
1940-48 Towanda
1948- Oneida
BROWN,
WILLIAM JAMES
Born:
11-18-1875 Charleston MA married: May
Jennings
Died:
6-10-1959 obit:
Western New York Conference 1968, 242
1897 license to preach
1905 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference
1907 ordained deacon, Genesee Conference
ordained
elder, Genesee Conference
Interment:
Union Cemetery, Livonia NY
Obit:
Genesee Conference 1960, 178
1900-01 Towlersville
1901-03 Naples Second
1903-04 West Almond
1904-08 Lawrenceville
1908-10 Pulteney
1910-12 Hemlock and Canadice
1912-16 Springwater
1916-21 Avoca
1921-24 Painted Post
1924-28 Wellsboro
1928-34 Hornell Spencer
1934-37 Geneseo
1937-40 Hemlock and Lima
1940-45 Livonia
1945 retired
1945-50 East
Groveland
1950-53 Lima
Note:
William J. Brown is the brother of John A. Brown
BROWNELL,
JOHN THOMAS
Born:
8-24-1836 Castile NY married:
Mary Adelia Smallwood
Died:
5-26-1886 Tangerine FL obit: Central
New York Conference 1884, 90
1863 admitted on trial, Maine Conference
1865 ordained deacon, Maine Conference
ordained
elder, East Genesee Conference
Interment:
East Ripley Cemetery, East Ripley NY
Obit:
Central New York Conference 1886, 95
1865 transfer to East Genesee
Conference
1865-68 Towanda
1868-70 Bath
1870-71 Lima
1871-72 Naples
1872 transfer to Central New York
Conference by change of boundaries
1876 transfer to Genesee Conference by
change of boundaries
1880 transfer to Central New York
Conference by change of boundaries
Note:
John T. Brownell is the son of Veranus Brownell.
BROWNELL,
VERANUS
Born:
3-16-1810 Pomfert VT married:
Margaret Lewis Jenkins
Died:
12-11-1874 Birdsall NY obit:
[3/18/1818 – 2/?/1852]
Married2:
Lois B. Showers
1841 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference obit2: [12/?/1827 –
1/28/1908]
1843 ordained deacon, Genesee Conference
ordained
elder, Genesee Conference
Interment:
Canaseraga Cemetery, Canaseraga NY
Obit:
Central New York Conference
Hornellsville
Avoca
Naples
Springwater
Rogersville
1848 charter member of East Genesee
Conference
1848-50 Angelica
1850-52 Conesus
1852-53 Nunda and Sparta
1853-54 Phillips Creek
1854-57 on leave
1857-62 retired
1862-63 Canaseraga
1863-65 Westfield
1865-67 Farmington
1867-68 Jackson
1868-70 Short Tract
1870-71 Almond
1871-72 on leave
1872 transfer to Genesee Conference
by change of boundaries
Note:
Veranus Brownell is the father of John T. Brownell, the father-in-law of Rev.
William H. Rogers (1834-1915) and Rev. Junius B. Countryman (1840-1927), and
the grandfather of Rev. Lowell Lincoln Rogers (1865-1944) – all of the Genesee
Conference. He is reported to have been
a shoemaker, a trade which he followed as he rode his circuits – and he used
the funds from mending shoes to finance his circuit-riding. A relevant 1931 book is Brownell Genealogy 1619-1930, The Ancestors and Descendants of Veranus
Brownell Itinerant Methodist Preacher by L.L. Rogers. This entire book is viewable on-line at https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89062882485&view=1up&seq=15 .
BUIKEMA,
JAMES HENRY
Born:
10-2-1906 St. Louis MO married: Lois
Alvina Reichardt
Died:
12-2-1994 Sunbury PA obit: Iowa
Conference 1983, 144
married2:
Mrs. Florence Katherine Freed Groce
1928 license obit2:
Iowa Conference 2004, 101
1929 admitted on trial, Des Moines Conference
1936 ordained deacon, Genesee Conference
ordained
elder
Interment:
Evergreen Cemetery, Selinsgrove PA
Obit:
Iowa Conference 1995, 149
1928-29 Millerton IA
1929-31 Van Wert
1931-34 student
1934 transfer to Genesee Conference
1934-36 Tioga
and Lamb’s Creek
1935-36 Tioga
Junction
1936-37 Kanona – Wheeler – Towlesville
1937-39 Hammondsport and Mitchellville
1939- Knoxville
– Austinburg – Cowanesque
…
1948 transfer to Rock River
Conference
transfer to Des Moines
Conference
transfer to Iowa
Conference
Note:
The second Mrs. Buikema (nee Freed) was the widow of a Mr. Herbert L. Groce
(1914-1975). James H. Buikema retired to
Selinsgrove some time before 1983 and was active in the Selinsgrove Wesley UMC.
BULL,
PHILIP JOSEPH
Born:
1848 married:
Died:
1928 obit:
married2:
Florence E. Leonard [6/6/1887]
1868 license to preach obit2:
Central New York Conference 1930, 571
1869 admitted on trial, East Genesee Conference
1871 ordained deacon, East Genesee Conference
1873 ordained elder, Central New York
Interment:
Lakeview Cemetery, Penn Yan NY
Obit:
Central New York Conference 1928, 141
1869-70 Baldwin
1870-72 Junius
1872 transfer to Central New York
Conference by change of boundaries
1872-73 Junius
1873-75 Erin and Breesport
1875-76 Springfield
1876 transfer to Genesee Conference
by change of boundaries
1876-77 Springfield
1877-80 East
Canton
1880 transfer to Central New York
Conference by change of boundaries
1880-81 Chemung
1881-83 Union Springs
1883-88 on leave
1883-86 East Troy
1887-88 Sodus
Point
1888-92 Reading Center
1892-98 on leave
1898-01 Millerton
1901-04 Odessa and Catherine
1904-09 Benton Center and Voak
1909-12 Marion
1912-14 Milo Center
1914 retired
BURNETT,
ARTHUR HENRY
Born:
2-24-1889 married: Ruth H.
Stephens
Died:
8-8-1952 obit:
Central New York Conference 1971, 148
1917 admitted on trial, Central New York
Conference
1920 ordained deacon, Central New York Conference
ordained
elder
Interment:
Victory Union Cemetery, Victory NY
Obit:
Central New York Conference 1953, 126
1917-22 Jamesville
1922-26 Minoa – North Manilus
1926-28 Sherrill
1928032 Syracuse James Street
1932-39 Sodus
1939-41 Elmira Pennsylvania Avenue
1941-48 Sherrill Federated
1948- Towanda
BURNETT,
GEORGE
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Central New York Conference
1860 admitted on trial, East Genesee Conference
Interment:
Obit:
Central New York Conference
1860-61 Pine
Creek
1861-62 Laporte
1862 discontinued
BURTON,
EVAN JOVES
Born:
5-2-1883 Wales married:
Ada Louise McNinch Cooper (1914)
Died:
11-10-1965 PA obit:
Genesee Conference 1955, 830
married2:
Mrs. Iva Laurilla Larrison (1958)
1914 license obit2:
[1897 – 1983]
1914 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference
1918 ordained deacon, Genesee Conference
ordained
elder
Interment:
McKean County Memorial Park, Lafayette PA
Obit:
Genesee Conference 1966, 819
1913-14 Galeton
1914-18 Williamsville
1918-19 Silver Springs
1919-20 conference evangelist
1920-25 Eldred
1925-35 Port Allegheny
1935-37 Naples
1937-41 Elma
1941-51 Smethport
1951 retired
Note:
The first Mrs. Burton (nee McNinch) was the widow of a Mr. Delos E. Cooper
(1775-1911). The second Mrs. Burton (nee
Kilbourne) was the widow of a Mr. Everett D. Larrison (1892-1951).
BUSH,
CHARLES
Born:
1-23-1819 Naples NY married:
Harriet Kenfield
Died:
7-22-1874 Bath NY obit: [1/14/1827 – 8/1/1874]
1855 admitted on trial, East Genesee Conference
1857 ordained deacon, East Genesee Conference
ordained
elder, East Genesee Conference
Interment:
Obit:
Western New York Conference 1874, 71
1855-56 Almond
1856-58 Savona
1858-59 Thurston
1859-61 Caton
1861-62 Brookfield
1862-63 Granger
1863-64 Short Tract
1864=66 Cameron
1866-68 Rogersville
1868-69 Wayland
1869-70 Savona
1870-72 Campbelltown and Mrchantsville
1872 transfer to Western New York
Conference by change of boundaries
CAMPBELL,
ROLLIN THOBURN
Born:
3-7-1912 New Haven CT married: Helen
Bailey Dawson
Died:
9-28-1995 Cuba NY obit: [6/3/1915 – 4/3/2001]
1838 license, Troy Conference
1939 admitted on trial, Troy Conference
1941 ordained deacon, Troy Conference
ordained
elder
Interment:
Obit:
North Central New York Conference 1996, 337
1939-40 East Middlebury and Ripton
1940-43 Hyndsville and Dorloo
1943 transfer to Central New York
Conference
1943-48 Eaton Federated
1948-53 North
Towanda, Luthers Mills and Durell
1953-56 Mecklenburg, Enfield, Kennedys and
Cayuraville
1956-59 Union Springs – Fleming
1959-62 Belmon – Union Springs
1962- Olean Peoples – Westons Mills
CARPENTER,
HERBERT ARISTOBULUS
Born:
11-5-1851 married:
Catherine Elizabeth Stevens
Died:
4-19-1944 obit:
Central New York Conference 1951, 124
1879 ordained, Free Methodist Church
Interment:
Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale CA
Obit:
Central New York Conference 1944, 109
1884 “transfer” to Central New York
Conference, Methodist Episcopal Church
1884-86 Burdett and Reynoldsville
1886-88 Caton
1888-90 Burlington
1890-91 Chemung
1891-93 Forksville
1893-94 on leave
1893-94 Ouray
CO
1894-97 North Lansing and Lansingville
1897-99 Canoga and Varick
1899-00 Goram and Stanley
1900-01 Sodus Point
1901-02 Townsendville
1902-03 New Hope and Kelloggsville
1902-03 Ira
and Bethel (first part) and Rawkins WY (second part)
1903-08 on leave
1903-04 Denver CO Myrtle Hill
1904-05 Gold
Hill CO
1907-08 Wayne
and Barrington
1908-10 conference evangelist
1908-09 Jennings
OK (first part) and Parker AZ (second part)
1909-10 Yuma
Valley AZ
1910-15 on leave
1910-11 Atwater
CA
1911-13 Greenfield
CA
1913-14 Acpaugh
CA
1914-15 Farmersville
CA
1915 retired
1915-16 Palmdale
CA
1916-17 Seeley
CA
1917-18 Loyalton
CA
1919-20 Lassem
CA
1920-26 Yolo
CA
Note:
The 1902-03 year is reported as given in the Central New York Conference
records.
CASE,
ORSON M.
Born:
11-1-1893 Marcellus NY married: Helen
Louise Schuyler
Died:
7-28-1985 Horseheads NY obit:
Central New York Conference 1982,239
married2:
Marian McClintock
1920 license obit2:
1922 admitted on trial, Central New York
Conference
1934 ordained deacon, Central New York Conference
ordained
elder
Interment:
Pine Ridge Cemetery, Navarino NY
Obit:
North Central New York Conference 1986, 377
1922-23 Erieville – Nelson
1923-24 New Woodstock – Delphi
1924-26 Perryville
1926-29 Stockbridge, Bennetts and Siloam
1929-30 Blodgett Mills
1930-31 Onondaga Hill
1931-33 Ovid and Varick
1933-35 Onondaga Hill
1935-37 Varna and Ellis
1937-39 Chemung, Wilawana and Owens
1939-43 Burlington,
Mountain Lake and Fairview
1943-47 Ulster
and Milan
1947- Clifton Springs
Warners
South Butler
1959 retired
CAUVEL,
PAUL ERNEST
Born:
2-22-1926 Franklin PA married:
Alice D. Dildine
Died:
1-8-2021 Bradford PA obit:
[7/9/1929 – 6/13/2019]
1950 license
1951 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference
1953 ordained deacon, Genesee Conference
Interment:
McKean County Memorial Park, Lafayette PA
Obit:
1949-50 Bliss – Eagle
1950-51 Chatham – Avondale
1951-53 student
1953-56 Ulysses
and Gold
1956-61 Machias – Sardinia
1961- North Chili
Note:
Paul E. Cauvel served as a local preacher.
He and his wife graduated from Houghton College in 1950. He later graduated from Westminster
Theological Seminary.
CHAMBERLAYNE,
DeFOREST OWEN
Born:
7-13-1860 Bolivar NY married:
Nettie Baldwin [1883]
Died:
8-22-1948 Hundred Acre Lot MA obit: Southern California
Conference 1890, 52
married2:
Lura B. Look [1894]
1881 license to preach obit2: Genesee
Conference 1930, 514
1883 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference
1885 ordained deacon, Genesee Conference
ordained
elder, ? Conference
Interment:
Pittsford Cemetery, Pittsford NY
Obit:
Genesee Conference 1949, 333
1883-84 Derrick City
1884-86 Portville
1886 transfer to Southern California
Conference
1886-90 Anaheim
1890-91 National City
1891 transfer to Genesee Conference
1891-93 Tioga
1893-94 Prattsburg
1894-98 Middleport
1898-01 Clarendon and Hulberton
1901-06 Avoca
1906-09 Osceola
and Elkland
1909-11 Rush
1911-13 Naples
1913-14 Knoxville
1914 retired
1922-23 Holley
1923-26 Clarendon
1928-33 Walworth
Note:
DeForest O. Chamberlayne is the son of Owen S. Chamberlayne and the grandson of
Rev. Israel Chamberlayne (1795-1875) of the Genesee Conference. He is also the nephew of Mary Anne
Chamberlayne Hammond, wife of Stephen Y. Hammond.
CHAMBERLAYNE,
OWEN ST. CLAIR
Born:
11-6-1831 Bellona NY married:
Ellen M. Parsons
Died:
7-24-1911 Pittsford NY obit:
Genesee Conference 1911, 147
1856 license to preach
1858 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference
1860 ordained deacon, Genesee Conference
ordained
elder, Genesee Conference
Interment:
Pittsford Cemetery, Pittsford NY
Obit:
Genesee Conference 1911, 142
1858-59 New Hudson
1859-61 Bolivar
1861-63 Belfast
1863-66 Portville
1866-68 Evans and Brant
1868-70 Warsaw
1870-71 Buffalo Riverside
1871-73 Portville
1873-74 Gainesville
1874-77 Castile
1877-78 Victor
1878-81 Genesco
1881-82 Batavia
1882-86 superintendent, Olean District
1886-88 Brockport
1888-93 Wellsboro
1893-98 Canisteo
1898-01 Webster
1901-03 Pittsford
1903 retired
Note:
Owen S. Chamberlayne is the son of Rev. Israel Chamberlayne (1795-1875) of the
Genesee Conference. He is also the
father of DeForest O. Chamberlayne and brother of Mary Anne Chamberlayne
Hammond, wife of Rev. Stephen Y. Hammond.
CHANDLER,
GEORGE WILLIAM
Born:
1938 (?) married:
Izora Cecelia Schwartz
Died:
1927 (?) obit:
[d. 8/25/1906]
1861 license
1862 admitted on trial, East Genesee Conference
1864 ordained deacon, East Genesee Conference
1866 ordained elder, East Genesee Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1862-64 Richmond and Canadice
1864-66 Webster
1866-68 Rochester Frank Street
1868-71 Ovid
1871-72 Clyde
1872 transfer to Central New York Conference
by change of boundaries
1872-74 Clyde
1874-76 Towanda
1876 transfer to Genesee Conference
by change of boundaries
1876-77 Towanda
1877-78 Corning
1878-81 Buffalo Delaware Avenue
1881-84 Lockport First
1884 transfer to Oregon Conference
1884-86 Portland Taylor Street
1886 transfer to Central New York
Conference
1886-90 Ithaca First
1890-92 on leave
Note:
Mrs. Chandler is a sister to Rev. Karl S. Schwartz (1862-1924) of the Episcopal
Church. A graduate (bachelor and master)
from the College of Fine Arts at Syracuse University, she was a miniature
painter and author of stories about children and dogs. She was the art and music critic for The Christian Advocate and the author of
Methodist Episcopalianism.
CHAPMAN,
FAY H.
Born:
2-3-1883 Avoca NY married: Pamela B. Coffin
[6/21/1905]
Died:
11-6-1953 Avoca NY obit:
Genesee Conference 1954, 589
1915 license
1917 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference
1919 ordained deacon, Genesee Conference
1922 ordained elder
Interment:
Highland Cemetery, Avoca NY
Obit:
Genesee Conference 1954, 589
1915-17 Little
Marsh
1917-20 Pulteney
1920-21 Ulysses
1921-23 Hammondsport
1923-26 Westfield
1926-28 Buffalo Lovejoy
1928-29 Tonawanda
1929-33 Wilson
1933-36 Nunda
1936- Cuba
CHAPMAN,
MARK RYMAL
Born:
3-12-1879 Ontario, Canada married: Nellie May
Wilson
Died:
7-22-1958 NY obit: Genesee
Conference 1935, 776
1894 license
1895 admitted on trial, Toronto Conference of the
Methodist Church of Canada
1899 ordained deacon, Toronto Conference of the
Methodist Church of Canada
ordained
elder
Interment:
White Chapel Memorial Park, Amherst NY
Obit:
Genesee Conference 1959, 898
1895-96 Novar
1896-98 King City
1898-99 Beeton
1899-00 Buffalo Humboldt Parkway, Genesee
Conference
1900
“transfer” to Genesee
Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church
1900-04 Buffalo Humboldt Parkway
1904-05 Alden
1905-08 Buffalo Ontario Street
1908-11 Somerset
1911-12 Knoxville
1913-16 Corning Grace
1916-17 Hornell Park
1917 retired
Note:
Mark R. Chapman is the don of Rev. Jeremiah Anderson Chapman (1842-1927),
presumably of the Methodist Church of Canada.
CHASE,
J.B.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Interment:
Obit:
1870-71 Middlebury
Note:
J.B. Chase served as a supply preacher.
Nothing else is known about him
CHATTIN,
HENRY ISAAC
Born:
12-29-1875 Parma NY married:
Carrie Harris
Died:
9-10-1947 Rush NY obit: Genesee Conference
1951, 781
1897 license
1905 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference
1907 ordained deacon, Genesee Conference
ordained
elder
Interment:
Honeoye Falls Cemetery, Honeoye Falls NY
Obit:
Genesee Conference 1948, 118
1905-08 Pekin
1908-09 Allentown
1909-12 Sardinia and Chaffee
1912-15 Whitesville
1915-19 Elkland
1919-23 Hornell Spencer
1923-25 Port Allegheny
1925-27 Bradford Asbury
1927-28 Buffalo South Park
1928-31 North Chili and Churchville
1931-33 Waterport – Kuckville – Kenyonville
1933-35 Walworth
1935-37 Pavilion
1937 Springwater and Canadice
Note:
Henry I Chattin graduated from Genesee Wesleyan Seminary in 1901, and from
Taylor University in 1905.
CHUBBUCK,
SHERMAN ADDISON
Born:
8-9-1830 Addison NY married:
Catalena Buffington Pendleton
Died:
6-19-1910 Orwell PA obit:
Central New York Conference 1918, 138
1858 license to exhort
1859 admitted on trial, Minnesota Conference
1860 ordained deacon, Minnesota Conference
1862 ordained elder, Minnesota Conference
Interment:
Orwell Hill Cemetery, Orwell PA
Obit:
Central New York Conference 1910, 168
1859-60 Rockford
1860-61 Eden Prairie
1861-62 Forest City
1862-63 Mankato
1863-66 Shelbyville
1866-68 Blue Earth City
1868-69 Enfield,
East Genesee Conference
1869 transfer
to East Genesee Conference
1869-71 Baldwin
1871-72 Logan
1872 transfer to
Central New York Conference by change of boundaries
1872-73 North Hector
1873-74 on leave
1874-76 East
Troy
1876 transfer
to Genesee Conference by change of boundaries
1876-78 Rutland
1878-80 Liberty
Corners and Asylum
1880 transfer
to Central New York Conference by change of boundaries
1880-81 Liberty
Corners and Asylum
1881-84 Chemung
1884-85 Wayne and
Barrington
1885-88 Jacksonville
1888-90 Perryville
1890 retired
CLAPP,
DEXTER ELISHA
Born:
6-7-1830 North Bergan NY married: Mary C.
VanSlyck
Died:
6-20-1882 Yates Center KS obit: [1839-1919]
1855 admitted on trial, East Genesee Conference
1857 ordained deacon, East Genesee Conference
ordained
elder, East Genesee Conference
Interment:
Yates Center Cemetery, Yates Center KS
Obit:
1855-56 Townsendville
1856-57 Milo
1857-58 Southport
1858-60 Troy
1860-63 Phelps
1863-66 Troy
[?
– some sources indicate he left the ministry for the Civil War in 1862]
1866-67 on leave
1867 transfer to Troy Conference
Note:
Dexter E. Clapp is the son of Rev. Ralph Clapp (1796-1882) of the Central New
York Conference. A Civil War Union
Brevet Brigadier General, he served first as a Captain in the 148th New York
Volunteer Infantry, then as Lieutenant Colonel of the 38th United States
Colored Troops. He was brevetted Brigadier General, US Volunteers on March 13,
1865 for "gallant and meritorious services". After the war he served as United States
Consul in Buenos Aires, Argentina from 1871 to 1873. An extensive obituary is given in the
6/23/1882 Yates Center News.
CLARK,
DANIEL
Born:
8-12-1828 Hector NY married:
Frances M. Hobart
Died:
11-9-1901 Pavilion NY obit: Genesee
Conference 1897, 124
1849 admitted on trial, East Genesee Conference
1851 ordained deacon, East Genesee Conference
ordained
elder, East Genesee Conference
Interment:
Obit:
Genesee Conference 1902, 126
1849-50 Addison
1850-51 Barrington
1851-52 Wellsburg
1852-53 Havana
1853-55 Burlington
1855-57 Mainesburg
1857-58 Lawrenceville
and Tioga
1858-59 Springfield
1859-61 Monroeton
1861-63 Catherine
1863-66 Tyrone
1866-69 Naples
1869-71 Wellsville
1871-72 Victor
1872 transfer to Genesee Conference
by change of boundaries
CLARK,
PETER D.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1866 admitted on trial, New York Conference
1868 ordained deacon, New York Conference
ordained
elder, East Genesee Conference
Interment:
Obit:
Central New York Conference
1866-67 Bloomingburgh
1867-68 Cannonsville
1868 transfer to East Genesee
Conference
1868-69 Erwin Center
1860-70 Manchester
Farms
1870 located
“transfer” to Illinois
Conference
1874 transfer to Kansas Conference
Note:
The Illinois and Kansas references appear to be for the Methodist Episcopal Church,
South, and mat refer to a different Rev. Peter D. Clark.
CLARK,
ROSWELL S.
Born:
5-14-1840 Jerusalem NY married: Clara
Vermilya
Died:
4-13-1921 Lily Dale NY obit:
Interment:
Townline Cemetery, Rathbone NY
Obit:
1889-92 Wheeler
1898-00 Harrison
Valley
1903-05 Pike and Lamont (beginning in
mid-year 1903/4)
1905-06 North Gainesville
Note:
R.S. Clark served as a supply preacher.
He is otherwise unknown.
COCHRAN,
WESLEY
Born:
1-13-1814 Peru NY married:
Elizabeth Gleason
Died:
1-28-1888 Mansfield PA obit: Central
New York Conference 1895, 115
1835 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference
1837 ordained deacon, Genesee Conference
ordained
elder, Genesee Conference
Interment:
Prospect Cemetery, Mansfield PA
Obit:
Central New York Conference 1888, 87
1848 charter member of East Genesee
Conference
1848-49 Lima
1849-50 Avon
1850-52 Groveland
1852-54 Rush
1854-55 Mt. Morris
1855-57 Nunda
1857-59 Canadice
1858-59 Richmond
1859-61 East Palmyra
1861-63 Mansfield
1863-66 Angelica
1866-67 Canisteo
1867-71 superintendent,
Troy District
1871-72 Tioga
and Lawrenceville
1872 transfer to Central New York
Conference by change of boundaries
1876 transfer to Genesee Conference
by change of boundaries
1880 transfer to Central New York
Conference by change of boundaries
COLBERT,
WILLIAM
Born:
4-20-1764 Poolesville MD married: Elizabeth
Stroud
Died:
6-16-1833 Stroudsburg PA obit: [1784 –
11/11/1849]
license
admitted
on trial, Genesee Conference
ordained
deacon, Genesee Conference
ordained
elder
Interment:
Stroud Cemetery, Stroudsburg PA
Obit:
Genesee Conference
1790 Calvert
MD
1790-91 Baltimore
circuit MD
1791-92 Harford MD
1792-93 Northumberland PA (first part) Tioga
(second part)
1793-94 Wyoming PA
1794-95 Prince
George’s MD
1795-96 Milford DE
1796-97 Bristol PA
1797-98 Chester
[PA]
1798-99 Wyoming PA
1799-00 Chester and
Strasburg PA
1800-01 Somerset MD
1801-02
Somerset and Annamessex MD
1803 charter member
of Philadelphia Conference
1802-03 superintendent, Albany District [includes Tioga circuit]
1803-04 superintendent, Genesee District [includes Tioga circuit]
1804-05 superintendent,
Chesapeake District
1805-06 Philadelphia
1806-07 Burlington
NJ
1807-08 Kent MD
1808-09 missionary,
Chesapeake District
1809-10 missionary,
Schuylkill District
1810-11 Antalany
1811 located
Note: William Colbert was the focus of the entire 2014 volume of The Chronicle. Mrs. Colbert’s parents were the founders and
namesakes of Stroudsburg PA.
COLE,
AMANDER GAINS
Born:
10-30-1842 Addison NY married: Myra
A. Bronley [5/26/1869]
Died:
7-10-1913 Campbell NY obit:
married2:
Adelaide Francelia Rice [6/21/1876]
1881 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference obit2: [1853-1919]
1883 ordained deacon, Genesee Conference
ordained
elder, Genesee Conference
Interment:
Townline Cemetery, Rathbone NY
Obit:
Genesee Conference 1913, 138
1881-83 Delmar
1883-85 Gaines
1885-87 East
Charleston
1887-92 Little
Marsh
1892-93 Bath Second
1893-94 Harrison
Valley
1894-96 Nelson
1896-99 Stannards
and Genesee
1899-00 without appointment
1900-05 on leave
1905 retired
COLE,
EUGENE SYLVESTER
Born:
10-15-1871 Rathbone NY married: Mabyn E.
French [9/2/1893]
Died:
5-6-1947 Rathbone NY obit: Genesee
Conference 1962, 714
1908 license
1920 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference
1922 ordained deacon, Genesee Conference
ordained
elder
Interment:
Townline Cemetery, Rathbone NY
Obit: Genesee
Conference 1947, 727
1907-10 Round
Top
1910-11 Bradford
1911-13 Churchville
1913-14 Presho and Orr Hill
1914-16 Campbell
1916-19 Delmar
1919-24 Covington
1924-26 Prattsburg
1926-28 Ulysses
1928-30 Dalton
1930 retired
Note:
Eugene S. Cole is the father of Rev. Homer Eugene Cole and Lena Belle Cole
Garner, wife of Rev, Richard C. Garner and herself a part-time preacher. Mrs. Cole was a local preacher in the Genesee
Conference 1927-1959.
COLE,
HOMER EUGENE
Born:
1-23-1912 married:
Anna Seladi (10/25/1933)
Died:
8-23-1997 obit:
Western New York Conference 1987, 335
1935 license
1939 admitted on trial, Central New York
Conference
1941 ordained deacon, Central New York Conference
ordained
elder
Interment:
Obit:
Western New York Conference 1998, 340
1936-37 Caton
1937-41 Mainesburg
– Elk Run
1941-43 Aloquin – Flint
1943-46 at school
1943-46 Macedon
Center – South Perinton
1946 transfer to Genesee Conference
1946-48 Macedon Center – South Perinton
1948-53 Bolivar
1953- Canisteo
Note:
Homer Eugene Cole is the son of Eugene Sylvester Cole and brother of Lena Belle
Cole Garner, wife of Richard C. Garner.
COLSON,
EBENEZER
Born:
2-20-1804 Plainfield MA married: Almira Hollister
[6/4/1843]
Died:
12-16-1863 Monroeton PA obit: [1820 – 2/12/1897]
1829 admitted on trial, Oneida Conference
1846 ordained deacon, Genesee Conference
ordained
elder, East Genesee Conference
Interment:
Mount Hope Cemetery, Norwich NY
Obit:
East Genesee Conference 1864, 20
1832 discontinued
1844 “transfer” to Genesee Conference
1848 charter member of East Genesee
Conference
1848-50 Southport
1850-51 Elmira
1851-53 Dresden
1853-55 Jacksonville
1855-57 Fairville
1857-59 South Sodus
1859-61 Bethel and Voaks
1861-63 Mainesburg
1863 retired
COMPTON,
A.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Interment:
Obit:
1870-72 Gaines
Note:
A. Compton served as a supply preacher.
He is otherwise unknown.
COMPTON,
EUGENE DANIEL
Born:
5-14-1844 Frenchtown PA married: Amelia D.
_____
Died:
8-6-1918 Coconut Grove FL obit:
[1846-1925]
Interment:
Woodlawn Park North Cemetery and Mausoleum, Miami FL
Obit:
1896-00 Gaines
(beginning
October 1896)
Rathbone
1905-06 Ansonia
1906-08 Round
Top
(did not finish last year)
Note:
E.D. Compton served as a supply preacher.
He was a harness maker by trade who entered the ministry late in
life. After moving to Florida, he
continued to serve there.
COMPTON,
ORVILLE
Born:
8-30-1846 Southport NY married: Hannah
Jane McAfee
Died:
3-3-1936 Lincoln NE obit:
[12/4/1848 – 8/14/1927]
1870 admitted on trial, East Genesee Conference
1872 ordained deacon, East Genesee Conference
1874 ordained elder, Central New York Conference
Interment:
Wyuka Cemetery, Lincoln NE
Obit:
[Lincoln Star, 3/4/1936, page 1]
1870-71 Gaines
and Manchester Farms [Ansonia]
1871-72 Dushore
1872 transfer to Central New York Conference
by change of boundaries
1872-73 Beaver Dams
1873-74 New Hope
1874-75 Borodino
1875-76 Enfield
1876-78 North Lansing
1878 withdrew, page 26
“transfer” to
Presbyterian Church
Auburn Seminary
1879-80 home missionary, Hopewell and Palmyra
NE
1880-81 Palmyra. Hopewell and Bennet
…
1892-94 Lincoln Third
Note:
Orville Compton left one month into the 1877-78 year to join the Presbyterians
– 1878, page 25. His subsequent life is
unknown, but he was a Presbyterian minister in Nebraska by 1883 – when he
founded the church in Panama. He was
supposedly ordained into the Baptist ministry in Minnesota 10/29/1899, and the
2/29/1901 Mansfield Advertiser
reports that he is a Baptist clergyman in Minnesota.
CONABLE,
FRANCIS WILLIAM
Born:
8-16-1814 Litchfield MY married: Amy
Sophia White [8/25/1841]
Died:
7-7-1890 obit:
Genesee Conference 1907, 155
1839 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference
1841 ordained deacon, Genesee Conference
ordained
elder
Interment:
Short Tract Cemetery, Short Tract NY
Obit:
Genesee Conference 1890, 150.
1841-42 Westfield
1842-43 Potter
mission [Coudersport]
(first part of year)
Note:
The 1889 death date on the tombstone of F.W. Conable appears to be in
error. He is the author of the
definitive 1876 History of the Genesee
Annual Conference.
CONANT,
WILLIAM
Born: married:
Died: obit:
admitted
on trial, Genesee Conference
ordained
deacon, Genesee Conference
ordained
elder
Interment:
Obit:
1839-40 Potter
mission [Coudersport]
Note:
William Conant appears to have been a local and/or supply preacher. He is otherwise unknown.
CONGDON,
LAFAYETTE
Born:
10-21-1845 Ellington NY married: Frances
Anna Kingsley
Died:
2-22-1927 Batavia NY obit:
Genesee Conference 1931, 707
1863 license to exhort
1864 license to preach
1867 admitted on trial, East Genesee Conference
1869 ordained deacon, Central New York Conference
1871 ordained elder, Central New York Conference
Interment:
Pittsford Cemetery, Pittsford NY
Obit:
Genesee Conference 1927, 786
1867-70 Pittsford
1870-72 Walworth
1872 transfer to Western New York by
change of boundaries
1872-75 Genesco
1875-76 Lima
1876 transfer to Genesee Conference
by change of boundaries
1876-78 Lima
1878-80 Newark
1880 transfer to Central New York
Conference by change of boundaries
18980-81 Newark
1881-84 Wolcott
1884-85 Towanda
1885-90 Syracuse University Avenue
1890-91 Penn Yan
1891 transfer to Genesee Conference
1891-96 Bradford
1896-00 Hornellsville Park
1900-02 Batavia
1902-04 superintendent, Niagara Disdrict
1904-13 president of Genesee Wesleyan
Seminary [Syracuse University]
CONGDON,
NOYES BANZETT
Born:
10-11-1837 Newfield NY married: Esther
Elizabeth King
Died:
3-31-1905 Buffalo NY obit:
Genesee Conference 1898, 136
1865 license
1870 admitted on trial, East Genesee Conference
1873 ordained deacon, Genesee Conference
ordained
elder
Interment:
Obit:
Genesee Conference 1905, 135
1870-71 Wellsburgh
1871-72 Towlesville
1872 transfer to Genesee Conference
by change in boundaries
1872-73 Towlesville
1873-75 Pulteney
1875-76 Avoca
1876-77 East
Troy
1877-78 Millerton
1878-80 Troupsburg
1880-81 Allegany
1881-83 Centerville and Eagle
1883-84 Stanatds and Genesee Forks
1884-85 Ischua
1885-87 Wheeler
1887-88 West Sparta and Union Corners
1888 retired
CONNELL,
CALVIN LUTHER
Born:
11-3-1844 Onondaga County NY married: Pauline S. Davis
Died:
12-11-1908 Manlius NY obit: Central
New York Conference 1878, 75
married2:
Frances M. Haight
obit2:
Central New York Conference 1921, 134
1876 admitted on trial, Central New York
Conference
1878 ordained deacon, Central New York Conference
1880 ordained elder, Central New York Conference
Interment:
Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Port Byron NY
Obit:
Central New York Conference 1909, 161
1876-77 Conquest
1877-80 Ovid
1880-81 Troy
1881-84 Townsendville
1884-87 Millport
1887-90 Canastota
1890-92 Wolcott
COOK,
LOVILLO D.
Born:
5-22-1877 married:
Sophia E. Snyder
Died:
2-?-1930 obit:
[9/?/1881 – after 1930]
1899 license
1903 ordained deacon, Genesee Conference
Interment:
Mountain View Cemetery, Oakland CA
Obit:
1899-00 North
Fork
1900-01 North
Fork
and Towlesville (did not finish the year due to ill health)
1901-02 living in Towlesville NY
1902-03 living in Rawson NY
1903-05 Black Creek and Abbott’s NY
1905 Mount Alton PA (did not report
due to moving west)
1905 “transfer” to North Dakota
Conference
1905-06 Osnabrook (part year, see 1906 ND
Journal, pages 42-43)
1906-08 Hunter and Grandin
“transfer” to Washington
Conference
1909 Colby (April to September)
1912-13 supply ?
“transfer” to Oregon
Conference
1922-23 Myrtle Point
“transfer” to California
Conference
1923-25 Pinole-Hercules
1925-28 Oakland St. Andrew’s (ending May
1928)
1928 Byron (beginning May 1928)
1928-29 Berkley First
1929-30 San Francisco Geneva Avenue and Daly
City
Note:
L.D. Cook served as a supply preacher, and he was never a regular clergy member
of any conference in which he served.
The 1906 Genesee Conference Journal, page 85, states: “L.D. Cook
appointed to Mt. Alton, shortly after the Conference asked consent to go to
North Dakota, where he now has a charge.”
The California Conference held its annual sessions in September. When the pastor at Byron died May 4, 1928,
Cook was moved to Byron for the remainder of that conference year.
COON,
DAVID
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Central New York Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1874-76 East
Smithfield
COOK,
VALENTINE
Born:
c1764 married:
Tabitha Slaughter (1799)
Died:
8-14-1822 Logan County KY obit: [c1775 – 1829]
1788 admitted on trial,
1790 ordained deacon, Genesee Conference
1793 ordained elder
Interment:
Valentine Cook gravesite, Russellville KY
Obit:
1788-89 Calvert MD
1789-90 Gloucester VA
1790-91 Lancaster VA
1791-92 Berkley WV
1792-93 Pittsburg PA
1793-94 superintendent,
Northumberland District
1794-95 superintendent,
Philadelphia-Northumberland District
1795-96 superintendent,
Northumberland District
1796-98 superintendent, Pittsburg District
1798-99 superintendent, Kentucky District
1799-00 principal, Bethel Acasemy in
Jessamine KY
1800 located
Note: The “Northumberland District” included 4
circuits – Northumberland, Tioga, Wyoming and Seneca Lake – all of the future
Wyoming and Genesee conferences. Valentine Cook was educated at Cokesbury
College 1787-88. The marker at his
gravesite reads: “Erected by the Louisville Annual Conference Historical
Society, July 29, 1934” and states “Due west of this site 500 yards is the site
of the first camp meeting held in the world, July 1800.” A biography of Valentine Cook appears in
“Important Men Related to Bethel Academy by G. Herbert Livingston in the fall
1994 Asbury Theological Journal,
49:2, pages 54-59.
COOLBAUGH,
GEORGE WASHINGTON
Born:
1820 PA married:
Chastina Monerva Cowell [6/29/1843]
Died:
1876 Avoca NY obit: [1825 – 1883]
1853 admitted on trial, East Genesee Conference
1856 ordained deacon, East Genesee Conference
ordained
elder, East Genesee Conference
Interment:
Highland Cemetery, Avoca NY
Obit:
1853-54 Laporte
1854-56 Loyalsock
1856-58 Springfield
1858-59 Ulster
1859-61 Jackson
1861-63 Jasper
1863-65 Avoca
1865-66 Springfield
1866-68 on leave
1868 located
Note:
Thius surname is sometimes rendered COOLBOUGH.
CORBIN,
B.B.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
license,
Central New York Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1916-18 Canton
Note:
B.B. Corbin served as a supply pastor.
He is otherwise unknown.
CORY,
EDWARD JAMES
Born:
1-22-1871 Plymouth, England married: Florence Alice
Hunt [10/4/1899]
Died:
8-13-1944 obit:
Genesee Conference 1954, 594
1893 license, England
1895 admitted on trial, England
1899 ordained deacon, England
ordained
elder
Interment:
Riverside Cemetery, Belfast NY
Obit:
Genesee Conference 1945, 319
1906 “transfer” to New England
Sothern Conference
1914 transfer to Northern New York
Conference
1918 transfer to Genesee Conference
1919-20 Buffalo Ripley Memorial
1920-23 Attica
1923-25 Galeton
1925-26 Ulysses
1926-29 Prattsburg
1929-32 Greenwood
1932-35 Delevan and Yorkshire
1935-39 Andover
1939-44 Belfast and Oramel
Note:
Edward J. Cory is the father of Rev. Reginald E. Cory (1901-1987) and Rev.
Herbert W.H. Cory (1902-1985), both of the Western New York Conference.
COUNTRYMAN,
ABRAM FLETCHER
Born:
3-11-1832 Minden NY married:
Elizabeth Ann Bateman
Died:
2-16-1915 Scottsburg NY obit: Genesee
Conference 1922, 502
1861 admitted on trial, East Genesee Conference
1863 ordained deacon, East Genesee Conference
ordained
elder, East Genesee Conference
Interment:
Union Cemetery, Scottsburg NY
Obit:
Genesee Conference 1915, 214
1861-62 Savona and Sonora
1862-64 Harmonyville
1864-66 Italy Hollow
1866-67 Brookville
1867-70 Middlesex
1870-71 Dresden
1871-72 Bellona
1872 transfer to Central New York
Conference by change of boundaries
1876 transfer to Genesee Conference
by change of boundaries
COWLES,
PHILO
Born:
11-19-1830 McGraw NY married: Minerva
Jarvis
Died:
4-15-1905 Syracuse NY obit:
[11/?/1839 – 9/10/1915]
1858 admitted on trial, Central New York
Conference
1860 ordained deacon, Central New York Conference
1862 ordained elder, Central New York Conference
Interment:
Cortland Rural Cemetery, Cortland NY
Obit:
Central New York Conference
1858-59 North Summer Kill
1859-60 East Homer
1860-61 Union Valley
1861-62 Peruville
1862-63 Amber
1863-64 located
1864-65 Elbridge
1865-66 North Lansing
1866-67 Preble
1867-68 located
1868 “transfer” to East Genesee
Conference
1868-69 Reading and Starkey
1869-70 Branchport
1870-72 Benton Center
1872 transfer Central New York
Conference by change of boundaries
1872-75 Middlesex
1875-76 East
Canton
1876 transfer to Genesee Conference
by change of boundaries
1876-78 East
Canton
1878-80 Milo Center
1880 transfer to Central New York
Conference by change of boundaries
1880-81 Milo Center
1881-83 Orleans
1883-84 West Dryden
1884-85 North Pitcher
1885-88 Fayetteville
1888-91 Georgetown
1891-92 Scott
COYLE,
MICHAEL
Born:
7-4-1832 married:
Phebe E. Tracy
Died:
8-28-1891 obit:
Central New York Conference 1923, 638
1855 license to exhort
1856 license to preach
1857 admitted on trial, East Genesee Conference
1859 ordained deacon, East Genesee Conference
1861 ordained elder, East Genesee Conference
Interment:
Seneca Union Cemetery, Valois NY
Obit:
Central New York Conference 1891, 131
1856-57 Jasper
1857-58 Monterey
1858-60 Enfield
1860-62 Smithfield
1862-64 Canton
1864-65 Burlington
1865-66 Burdette and Reynoldsville
1866-69 Jacksonville
1869-70 Havana
1870-72 North Hector
1872 transfer to Central New York Conference
by change of boundaries
1872-76 on leave
1876-79 Logan
1879-80 Erin and Breesport
1880-81 Wellsburgh
1881-82 on leave
1882-85 Van Ettenville
1885-86 Groton
1886-87 Logan
1887-88 Odessa and Cayutaville
1888-91 on leave
Note:
Mrs. Coyle is also reported as the former Phoebe E. Tracey.
CRAW,
ALANSON ADELBERT
Born:
4-4-1846 Lockport NY married:
Flora A. Upham [1871]
Died:
2-15-1913 obit:
Genesee Conference 1902, 140
married2:
Adelaide Olivia Smith [1/1/1903]
1876 license to preach obit2: [12/?/1873 –
12/19/1955]
1877 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference
1879 ordained deacon, Genesee Conference
ordained
elder, Genesee Conference
Interment:
Hinsdale Cemetery, Maplehurst NY
Obit:
Genesee Conference 1914, 133
1876-78 Sanborn
1878-79 Warren’s Corners
1879-80 Millville
1880-82 Porter and Youngstown
1882-84 Coudersport
1884-87 Clarkson
1887-88 Waterport and Kuckville
1888-90 Clarendon and Hulberton
1890-91 Gowanda
1891-95 Buffalo Woodside
1895-98 Canaseraga
1898-01 Limestone
1901-02 Olean People’s
1902-03 Ellicottsville
1903-05 East Otto
1905-08 Scio
1908-10 Belmont
1910-11 Hinsdale and Ischua
Note:
Alanson A. Craw is the son of Rev. Adolphus A. Craw (1819-1903) and the
grandson of Rev. Lyman Craw (1776-1844), both local preachers in the Genesee
Conference. The widowed second Mrs. Craw
later [1924] married a Mr. George Weimer (1871-1953). Her paternal grandmother Hannah Van Buren was
a first cousin of present Martin Van Buren.
CRETZER,
F.L.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
license,
Central New York Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1917-20 Burlington
Note:
F.L. Cretzer served as a supply pastor.
He is otherwise unknown.
CRIPPEN,
MANNING FORD
Born:
1-8-1892 Roseville PA married:
Kathryn May Root (1917)
Died:
8-16-1980 Dallas TX obit: Central New
York Conference 1981, 240
1930 admitted on trial, Central New York
Conference
1932 ordained deacon, Central New York Conference
ordained
elder
Interment:
Watson-Roseville Cemetery, Roseville PA
Obit:
Central New York Conference 1981, 237
1930-31 Catlin and Sullivanville
1931-36 Catlin and Big Flats
1936-37 East
Smithfield, Wetona and Big Pond
1937-41 Blossburg
1941-48 Mecklenburg, Enfield and Cayutaville
1944-48 Kennedys
1948- Dundee and Starkey
CROSS,
EDWARD WALTER
Born:
4-2-1913 married:
Died:
1-2-1978 Rochester NY obit: Genesee
Conference
1938 license
1947 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference
1949 ordained deacon, Genesee Conference
ordained
elder
Interment: Mount Hope Cemetery, Rochester NY
Obit:
Western New York Conference 1978, 285
1944-46 Canasarga – Swains - Garwoods
1946-47 assistant, Boston MA Tremont
1947-49 Gaines
– Asaph – Marshland
1949-51 West Barre – Eagle Harbor
1951-54 Penfield
1954-56 Lawrenceville
– Tioga – Tioga Junction
1956-59 Marilla
1959-60 Canase4raga – Garwoods
1960-62 Galeton
1962 on leave
CROSSLEY,
HENRY EDWARD
Born:
8-8-1874 Williamstown NY married: Anna Belle
Rush [12/23/1902]
Died:
8-12-1958 Buffalo NY obit:
Genesee Conference 1944, 118
1900 license
1904 admitted on trial, Central New York
Conference
1906 ordained deacon, Central New York Conference
ordained
elder
Interment:
North Ridge Cemetery, North Ridge NY
Obit:
Genesee Conference 1959, 897
1901-02 Syracuse Bethany
1902-03 Scott
1903-05 Georgetown
1905-08 Varna
1908-12 Ledyard
1912-14 Truxton
1914-16 Cincinnatus
1916-18 Stockbridge
1918 secretary, Army YMCA (part year)
1918-22 Groton
1922-24 Seneca Castle
1924-26 Seneca Falls
1926 transfer to Genesee Conference
1926-28 East Bloomfield
1928-29 Machias and Franklinville
1929-31 Ransomville
1931-34 Hartland and North Hartland
1934-36 North
Bingham
and Whitesville
1936-37 Whitneyville
and Covington
1937-38 Rushford
1938 retired
CROW,
DAVID JR.
Born:
10-6-1822 Emporium PA married: Sarah
Burlingame
Died:
8-9-1892 Falls City NE obit: Central
New York Conference 1901, 111
1840 license to exhort
1841 license to preach
1842 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference
1844 ordained deacon, Genesee Conference
1846 ordained elder, Genesee Conference
Interment:
Steele Cemetery, Falls City NE
Obit:
Central New York Conference 1892, 102
1842-43 Eden
1843-45 Franklinville
1845-46 Lodi (Gowanda)
1846-47 Sardinia
1847-48 Port Gibson and East Palmyra
1848 charter member of East Genesee
Conference
1848-49 Port Gibson and East Palmyra
1849-50 Pittsford
1850-52 Horseheads
1852-54 Seneca Falls
1854-56 Bellona
1856-58 Lodi
1858-60 Ovid
1860-62 Milo
1862-63 Clifton Springs
1863-72 on leave
1872 transfer to Central New York
Conference by change of boundaries
1872-74 on leave
1874-76 Smithfield
1876 transfer to Genesee Conference
by change of boundaries
1876-77 Monroeton
1877-78 East
Troy
1878 retired
1880 transfer
to Central New York Conference by change of boundaries
DAMON,
ALBERT NELSON
Born:
9-25-1838 Bridgeport NY married: Hettie
Salisbury
Died:
12-4-1893 Mansfield PA obit: Central
New York Conference 1910, 169
1855 licensed to exhort
1856 license to preach
1858 admitted on trial, Black River Conference
1860 ordained deacon, Black River Conference
1862 ordained elder, Black River Conference
Interment:
Woodlawn Cemetery, Elmira NY
Obit:
Central New York Conference 1894, 117
1858-59 Parish
1859-60 Williamstown
1860-61 South Mexico
1861-63 St. Lawrence
1863-65 Cape Vincent
1865-68 North Manlius
1868-69 Red Creek
1869 transfer to Central New York
Conference by change of boundaries
1869-70 Red Creek
1870-73 Homer
1873-74 Watkins
1874-76 Corning
1876 transfer to Genesee Conference
by change of boundaries
1876-77 Corning
1877-78 Rochester Alexander Street
1878-80 Penn Yan
1880 transfer to Central New York
Conference by change of boundaries
1880-81 Penn Yan
1881-84 Seneca Falls
1886-86 Waterloo
1886-88 Trumansburg
1888-91 Homer
1891-94 Mansfield
(ending 12/4/1893)
Note:
Albert N. Damon is the father of Cora A. Damon Tinker, wife of Ezra W. Tinker.
DANIELS,
ERFORD WILLIAMS
Born:
12-17-1916 Bath NY married:
Doris L. Matteson
Died:
2-8-1998 Wildwood FL obit:
[3/4/1920 – 11/7/2008]
1942 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference
1943 ordained deacon, Genesee Conference
1945 ordained elder
Interment:
Lancaster Rural Cemetery, Lancaster NY
Obit:
Western New York Conference 1998, 341
1942-44 at school
1944-47 Hartland and North Hartland
1947-50 Depew
1950-52 Springwater - Canadice
1953-59 Westfield
– North Fork – Cowanesque
1950-62 Honeoye Falls – Ionia
1962-67 Attica – Darien
1967-68 ?
1968-72 Cattaraugus – Wesley
1972-79 Scio – Friendship
1979-81 Wyoming – Covington
1981 retired
DARROW,
JOHN VICTOR
Born:
8-18-1888 married:
Grace May Andrews
Died:
1-30-1963 obit:
Central New York Conference 1962, 156
1913 admitted on trial, Central New York
Conference
1915 ordained deacon, Central New York Conference
ordained
elder
Interment:
Millerton Cemetert, Millerton PA
Obit:
Central New York Conference 1963, 160
1913-14 New
Albany
1914-17 East
Smithfield and Big Pond
1917-19 Millerton
and Jackson
1919-23 Mecklenburg and Cayutaville
1923-26 Elmira Epworth
1926-31 East Syracuse
1931-36 Homer
1936-40 Morrisville, Eaton and West Eaton
1940-45 North Rose
1945- Elmira Epworth
…
1953 retired
1953-57 Watkins
Glen
DAVIES,
JOSEPH LLEWELLYN
Born:
2-23-1849 Towyn, Wales married: Lytie
Perkins
Died:
2-17-1919 obit:
Genesee Conference 1923, 713
1870 license to preach
1872 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference
1883 ordained deacon, Genesee Conference
ordained
elder, Genesee Conference
Interment:
Hallsport Union Cemeteryu
Obit:
Genesee Conference 1919, 125
1872-73 Willing
1873-74 Ulysses
1874-75 Birdsall
1875 discontinued
1875-79 high school principal, Lewisville PA
1879-81 Machias
1881 re-admitted to Genesee
Conference
1881-82 Machias
1882-83 Kendall Creek
1883-84 Allegany
1884-90 faculty, Genesee Wesleyan Seminary
1890-91 on leave
1891 transfer to Northern New York
Conference
1891-93 Utica
1893-96 president, Folts Missionary
Institute, Herkimer NY
1896-98 Herkimer
1898 transfer to Genesee Conference
1898-10 faculty, Genesee Wesleyan Seminary
1910 retired
DAVIS,
LOREN ARTHUR
Born:
1-31-1869 Bernard’s Bay NY married: Julia M. _____
Died:
10-9-1936 Syracuse NY obit:
[5/6/1876 – 12/12/1967]
1890 license to preach
1894 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference
1896 ordained deacon, Genesee Conference
ordained
elder, Genesee Conference
Interment:
Woodlawn Cemetery, Canandaigua NY
Obit:
Genesee Conference 1937, 349
1890-91 Lock Berlin
1891-92 no assignment
1892-93 Belle Isle
1893-95 Round
Top
1895-97 Pulteney
1897-99 Clarkson
1899-01 Pendleton Center
1901-03 Nelson
1903-05 Delmar
1905-08 Harrison
Valley
1908-10 Lawrenceville
and Tompkins
1910-11 Custer City and Derrick City
DAVISON,
ALVA
Born:
1820 NY married:
Mary _____
Died: obit:
[1832 – 8/15/1888]
1856 admitted on trial, East Genesee Conference
Interment:
Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Westfield PA
Obit:
1856-57 Whitesville
1857-58 Brookfield,
Westfield and Harrison
1858-59 Charleston
1859 discontinued
1884-89 Westfield
1897-98 Cowanesque
Note:
After leaving the itinerancy, Alva Davison served as a local preacher in the
Genesee Conference. This name is also given
as ALVAH DAVIDSON.
DAVISON,
CURTIS P.
Born:
1815 married:
Died:
11-29-1863 obit:
1847 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference
1851 ordained local deacon, Genesee Conference
(Conable’s History, page 595)
Interment:
Chestnut Ridge Cemetery, Gasport NY
Obit:
1845 discontinued*
1847-48 Knoxville
1848 charter member of East Genesee
Conference
1848-49 Springfield
1849-50 Orange
1850 no longer listed, apparently
became a local preacher in the Genesee Conference
*It
is noted (Conable’s 1876 History of the
Genesee Conference, page 523): Curtis P. Davison was also
discontinued. He was a good brother, and
earnestly desired to perform the work of a traveling preacher. The presiding elder had “leave to employ
him.”
DAY,
JOHN HAWKINS
Born:
6-22-1819 Warwick NY married: Susan
Woodruff
Died:
10-4-1891 Nelson PA obit:
Central New York Conference 1896, 115
1850 admitted on trial, East Genesee Conference
1852 ordained deacon, East Genesee Conference
ordained
elder, East Genesee Conference
Interment:
McDowell Cemetery, Wayne NY
Obit:
Central New York Conference 1891, 132
1850-51 Loyalsock
1851-52 Springfield
1852-53 Canisteo
1853-54 Thurston
1854-55 Potter
1855-57 Canoga
1857-58 Mecklenburg
1858-59 Horseheads
1859-61 Hector
1861-63 Jacksonville
1863-64 Havana
1864-65 Rush
1865-66 Bellona
1866069 Hopewell
1869-72 Gorham and Voaks
1872 transfer to Central New York
Conference by change of boundaries
DE
LA MATYR, JOHN H
Born:
8-?-1822 NY married: Harriet
Elvin Stanton
Died: obit:
[1822 - ?]
1853 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference
1855 ordained deacon, Genesee Conference
ordained
elder
Interment:
Obit:
Genesee Conference
1853-54 Coudersport
1854-55 Mansfield
1855-56 Newfane
1856 located
1871 readmitted to Nebraska
Conference
1874 transfer to Nevada Conference
1885 transfer to Colorado Conference
1903 located
John
H. De La Matyr is the son of Rev. Henry De La Matyr (d. 1889), affiliation
unknown. He is a brother to David De La
Matyr (d. 1848) of the Genesee Conference, Gilbert De La Matyr (1825-1892) of
the East Ohio Conference), George W. De La Matyr (1829-1893) of the Nevada
Mission Conference. Gilbert and George
also began their ministries in the Genesee Conference.
DEAN,
MICAJAH C.
Born:
2-17-1828 Barrington NY married: Marie
Louise McKinney
Died:
3-3-1921 obit:
Genesee Conference 1922, 503
1858 license to preach
1860 admitted on trial, Vermont Conference
1862 ordained deacon, Vermont Conference
ordained
elder, East Genesee Conference
Interment:
Hillside Cemetery, Dundee NY
Obit:
Genesee Conference 1921, 276
1860-64 principal, Springfield Wesleyan
Seminary, Springfield VT
1864 transfer to East Genesee Conference
1864-65 Potter
1865-66 Mecklenburg
1866-68 Chemung
1868-70 Troy
1870-72 Canton
1872 transfer to Central New York
Conference by change of boundaries
1872-73 Canton
1873-74 Towanda
1874-76 Rushville
1876 transfer to Genesee Conference by
change of boundaries
1876-77 Rushville
1877-80 Brockport
1880-83 LeRoy
1883-86 Rochester Frank Street
1886-87 Warsaw
1887-89 Buffalo Riverside
1889-92 Angelica
1892-97 Bath
1897-04 Ulysses
1904 retired
Note:
Before entering the Vermont Conference, Micajah Dean served as principal of the
Genesee Wesleyan Seminary, Lima NY. The
maiden name of Mrs. Dean is sometimes given as MacKinney.
DECKER,
DALLAS
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Genesee Conference
license
admitted
on trial, Genesee Conference
ordained
deacon, Genesee Conference
ordained
elder
Interment:
Obit:
Genesee Conference
1954-56 Roulette
and Fishing Creek
Note
Dallas Decker served as a supply preacher.
DeGRAW,
CALVIN WEATHERWALKS
Born:
5-18-1905 NY married: Nancy Maude
March
Died:
10-11-1994 Newberry FL obit: Western
New York Conference 1992, 340
1931 admitted on trial, Onondaga Conference of
the Methodist Protestant Church
1934 ordained deacon, Onondaga Conference of the
Methodist Protestant Church
ordained
elder
Interment:
Obit:
Western New York Conference 1995, 284
1931-39 South Canisteo
1939 transfer to Genesee Conference
of the Methodist Church by denominational union
1939-42 Keeneyville
– Niles Valley – Little Marsh
1942-51 Clarence
1951-54 Barker
1954-62 Buffalo Humboldt Parkway
Note:
Calvin W. DeGraw is a brother to Rev. Bernard DeGraw (1904-1989) of the North
Central New York Conference.
DEIGHTON,
WILLIAM LOOK
Born:
12-17-1891 married:
Marjorie Elizabeth Ball (7/13/1975)
Died:
6-7-1967 obit:
Western New York Conference 1976, 243
1920 license
1920 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference
1924 ordained deacon, Genesee Conference
ordained
elder
Interment:
Obit:
New York Conference EUB 1967, 74
1920-21 Gaines
1921-24 Springwater
1924-25 Holley
1925-29 Rush
1929-32 Attica
1932-33 Addison
1933-36 Lockport Clinton Street
1936-39 Gainesville and North Gainesville
1939- Machias
“transfer” to the New
York Conference of the Evangelical United Brethren Church
Note:
William Look Deighton is the father of Rev. Edward Look Deighton (1913-1991) of
the Western New York Conference.
DENNIS,
JOSEPH
Born:
6-20-1857 Phelps NY married:
Lucia Harriet Bergen
Died:
3-5-1929 Belmont NY obit:
Genesee Conference 1924, 162
1880 license to preach
1884 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference
1886 ordained deacon, Genesee Conference
ordained
elder, Genesee Conference
Interment:
Until the Day Dawn Cemetery, Angelica NY
Obit:
Genesee Conference 1929, 305
1881-82 West Sparta
1882-83 Alden
1883-86 Charlotte
1886-90 Rochester Epworth
1890-95 Coudersport
1895-97 Olean Ninth Street
1897-00 Buffalo Sentinel
1900-05 Wellsboro
1905-08 Corning First
1908-10 Buffalo Ripley-Memorial
1910-11 conference evangelist
DePEW,
NELSON ABRAHAM
Born:
12-11-1813 Kent CT married:
Sarah Maria Griffin
Died:
9-14-1903 Logan NY obit:
Central New York Conference 1897, 111
married2:
Mary E. Pangburg
1839 license to preach obit2: Central New York
Conference 1918, 139
1849 admitted on trial, East Genesee Conference
1851 ordained deacon, East Genesee Conference
1853 ordained elder, East Genesee Conference
Interment:
Lakeview Cemetery, Penn Yan NY
Obit:
Central New York Conference 1903, 113
1844-46 Watertown circuit
1848-49 Rogersville
1849-50 Cherry
1850-52 Orange
1852-54 Wellsboro
1854-56 Hornellsville
1856-57 Dundee
1857-59 Towanda
1859-61 Penfield
1861-63 Victor
1863-65 Port Gibson
1865-68 Canoga
1868-70 Townsendville
1870-72 Havana
1872 transfer to Central New York
Conference by change of boundaries
1872-74 Milo Center
1874-75 Fairville
1875-76 Gorham
1876 transfer to Genesee Conference
by change of boundaries
1876-77 Gorham
1877-80 Dresden
1880 transfer to Central New York
Conference by change of boundaries
1880-83 Reading Center
1883-85 Logan
1885-89 Big Flats
1889-92 Wayne and Barrington
DEVINE,
ERNEST
Born:
9-12-1880 Sheffield England married: Ethel Trickett
Died:
8-14-1962 Garden Grove CA obit: Central New York
Conference 1961, 155
1923 admitted on trial, Central New York
Conference
1925 ordained deacon, Central New York Conference
ordained
elder
Interment:
Hillside Cemetery, Georgetown NY
Obit:
Central New York Conference 1963, 160
Georgetown
1923-26 Erieville – Nelson
1926-29 Preble – Little York
1929-32 Stockbridge, Bennetts and Sioam
1932-36 Truxton and East Homer
1936-37 Chumung, Wilawana and Owens Mills
1937-41 Millerton
and Jackson Center
1941-45 East
Troy, West Burlington and Leona
1945-47 Rose – Lock Berlin
1947- Onondaga Hill
Note
DEWEY,
KEITH MERTON
Born:
10-28-1927 Gaines PA married:
Lewenna Flo Hoak (1947)
Died:
12-2-2016 Rochester NY obit: [1927 –
2/13/2010]
1949 license
1953 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference
1955 ordained deacon
Ordained elder
Interment:
Knowlton Cemetery, Marchlands PA
Obit:
Upper New York Conference 2017, 204
1949-50 Tioga
1950-54 Nelson
– Tompkins
1954-55 at school
1955 transfer to Western New York
Conference
1955-59 Alexander – Darien
1959-64 Niagara Falls St. James
1964-65 Henrietta Christ View
1965-67 located
1967-76 Griegsville
1975-76 Victor (3 months); Churchville (6
months – ending 1/31/1976)
1976-86 Honeoye Falls (beginning 2/1/1976)
1986-90 Falconer First
1990 retired
2010 charter
member of Upper New York Conference
DICKERSON,
FRANCIS HENRY
Born:
5-6-1859 Hector NY married:
Mary E. Huff
Died:
12-23-1938 NY obit: Genesee
Conference 1917, 136
married2:
Louise A. Fuhrman
1888 license to preach obit2: 1936, 129
1889 admitted on trial, Central New York
Conference
1891 ordained deacon, Central New York Conference
ordained
elder, Central New York Conference
Interment:
Obit:
Genesee Conference 1939, 739
1888-89 Oran
1889-90 Union Valley
1890-91 Scott
1891-93 North Pitcher
1893-96 Perryville
1896-99 Varne
1899-01 Forksville
1901-04 Monroeton
1904 transfer to Genesee Conference
1904-06 Springwater and Candice
1906-10 Troupsburg
1910-11 Cohocton
DICKINSON,
SANFORD BOUTON
Born:
10-8-1832 Deposit NY married:
Louisa Maria Hunt
Died:
2-20-1921 obit:
Central New York Conference 1918, 137
1856 admitted on trial, East Genesee Conference
1858 ordained deacon, East Genesee Conference
1860 ordained elder, East Genesee Conference
Interment:
Bath National Cemetery, Bath NY
Obit:
Central New York Conference 1921, 131
1856-57 Tioga
1857-58 Andover
1858-60 Hammondsport
1860-61 Burdette and Reynoldsville
1861-62 Dundee
1862-63 chaplain, 148th New York
State Volunteers
1863-65 East Bloomfield
1865 transfer to Missouri and
Arkansas Conference
1865-67 St. Louis Sixth Street and
superintendent, Ladies’ City Mission
1867 transfer to Genesee Conference
1867-68 editor, Allegany Radical
1868-70 Olean
1870-72 Buffalo St. Mark’s
1872 retired
1880
transfer to Central New York by change of boundaries
DIETTERICH,
ALBERT MERRITT
Born:
2-24-1899 Scranton PA married:
Helen Hollinshead
Died:
12-20-1983 Gaithersburg MD obit:
Baltimore Conference 1995, 451
1920 license, Genesee Conference
1922 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference
1924 ordained deacon, Genesee Conference
1926 ordained elder, Genesee Conference
Interment:
Lime Ridge Methodist Cemetery, Lime Ridge PA
Obit:
Baltimore Conference 1984, 354
1923-26 student, Boston University School of
Theology
1923 transfer
to New England Southern Conference
1923-24 Provincetown
Centenary
1924-26 Fall
River
1926 transfer to Genesee Conference
1926-28 Machias
1927-28
Franklinville
1928-33 Coudersport
and Sweden Valley
1933-39 Wellsville
1939-46 Olean First
1946-54 conference staff, Executive Secretary
1954 transfer to North Iowa
Conference
1954-59 conference staff, Executive Secretary
1959 transfer to Baltimore Conference
1959-70 conference staff, Secretary of
Education
1970 retired
Note:
A. Merritt Dietterich is the preferred usage.
DILLENBECK,
CORNELIUS
Born:
3-30-1837 Starkville NY married: Alida
A. Putnam
Died:
5-29-1902 Avoca NY obit:
Genesee Conference 1902, 137
1860 admitted on trial, East Genesee Conference
1862ordained
deacon, East Genesee Conference
ordained
elder, East Genesee Conference
Interment:
Highland Cemetery, Avoca NY
Obit:
Genesee Conference 1902, 128
1860-61 South Adison
1861-62 Springfield
[Leona]
1862-64 Knoxville
1864-66 Brookfield
1866-67 Wayne
1867-69 Branchport
1869-70 Campbell
1870-72 Prattsburg
1872 transfer to Western New York
Conference by change of boundaries
1876 transfer to Genesee Conference
by change of boundaries
1881-82 Coudersport
1891-93 Gaines
1893-94 Cameron
DOANE,
FRED J.
Born:
1874 married:
Died:
1956 obit:
Interment:
Woodlawn Park North Cemetery and Mausoleum, Miami FL
Obit:
1897-00 Ansonia
Note:
F.J. is a brother to G.W. Doane. He
served as a supply preacher.
DOANE,
GEORGE WASHINGTON
Born:
5-5-1865 Little Marsh PA married: Cora
Bell Sensabaugh
Died:
4-17-1952 Clewiston FL obit: [8/19/1868
– 4/12/1918]
married2:
Gertrude Rice
obit2:
Interment:
Fort Denaud Cemetery, Fort Denaud FL
Obit:
Genesee Conference 1952, 137
Leetonia
1895-00 Delmar
1900-09 Wheeler
1909-10 Towlesville
Cameron
on leave
1920-25 Whitneyville
Note:
G.W. Doane is a brother to F.J. Doane.
He served as a supply preacher.
DODGE,
EDWARD CLARE
Born:
9-30-1852 Corning NY married:
Clara Snell
Died:
11-20-1931 Medina NY obit: Genesee
Conference 1923, 709
1872 license to preach
1876 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference
1878 ordained deacon, Colorado Conference
ordained
elder, Colorado Conference
Interment:
Mount Pleasant Cemetery, West Shelby NY
Obit:
Genesee Conference 1932, 109
1874-76 Lincoln
1876 transfer to Colorado Conference
1876-77 Plattville
1877-79 Black Hawk
1879-82 Canon City
1882-83 Pueblo
1883 transfer to Genesee Conference
1883-84 Wales
1884-85 Rochester Hedding
1885-87 Attica
1887-90 Oakfield
1890-95 Genesco
1895-96 assistant, Buffalo Richmond Avenue
1896-98 Warsaw
1898-00 Wellsboro
1900 retired
DRAKE,
JAMES REUBEN.
Born:
7-11-1852 married:
Died:
7-6-1918 obit:
Central New York Conference
Interment:
Obit:
Central New York Conference 1918, 127
1879-80 East
Smithfield
DRAKE,
REUBEN A.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1857 admitted on trial, East Genesee Conference
1859 ordained deacon, East Genesee Conference
ordained
elder, East Genesee Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1857-68 Hammondsport
1858-59 East
Smithfield
1859-60 Leonard
Hollow [Springfield]
1860-62 Mansfield
1862-63 U.S. Army, PA Seventh Volunteer
Calvary
1863-64 without appointment
1864 expelled
Note:
While at Mansfield, R.A. Drake was the treasurer of and heavily involved in the
finances of Methodism’s Mansfield Classical Seminary. The U.S. Army records list his service as
chaplain from 10/10/1861 to 12/10/1862.
This may be the person buried in Hazleton identified as Reuben E. Drake
(1830-1898) who was supposedly a chaplain in the 7th regiment of the
PA Volunteer Calvary.
DRAPER,
GIDEON
Born:
12-18-1780 Dover Plains NY married: Ella
Elizabeth Cronise
Died:
12-8-1861 Clifton Springs NY obit: [8/1/1796 –
12/5/1851]
license
1803 admitted on trial, Philadelphia Conference
1805 ordained deacon, Baltimore Conference
1807 ordained elder
Interment:
Clifton Springs Village Cemetery, Clifton Springs NY
Obit:
East Genesee Conference 1862, 16
1803-04 Huntingdon
1804 transfer to Baltimore Conference
by change of boundaries
1804-05 Northumberland
1805-07 Montgomery
1807-08 Wyoming
1808 transfer to Philadelphia
Conference by change of boundaries
1808-09 Canaan
1809-10 superintendent,
Susquehanna District
1810 charter member of Genesee
Conference
1810-12 superintendent,
Susquehanna District
1812-16 superintendent, Genesee District
1816-17 Bloomfield
1817-19 located
1822-39 located
1848 charter member of East Genesee
Conference
Note:
Gideon Draper is the father of Permelia Ann Draper Post, wife of Woodruff
Post. He was converted under the
preaching of Lorenzo Dow.
DuBOIS,
GEORGE J.
Born:
1828 Allegany County NY married: Julia
Fredanberg
Died:
3:31-1881 Canisteo NY obit: Genesee
Conference 1895, 131
1853 admitted on trial, East Genesee Conference
1855 ordained deacon, East Genesee Conference
ordained
elder, East Genesee Conference
Interment:
Hillside Cemetery, Canisteo NY
Obit:
Genesee Conference 1881, 86
1853-54 Wellsboro
circuit
1854-56 Angelica
1856-57 Jasper
1857-58 Orleans
1858-60 Pultneyville
1860-61 Sodus
1861-63 Chemung
1863-65 Troy
1865-66 Burlington
1866-69 Big Flats
1869-71 Groveland
1871-72 Springwater and Conesus
1872 transfer to Genesee Conference
by change of boundaries
DuBOIS,
W.S.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Interment:
Obit:
Genesee Conference
1886-87 Little
Marsh
DUNCAN,
JAMES
Born:
10-3-1820 Halifax, Nova Scotia married: Mary J. Burke
Died:
1-30-1898 Rochester NY obit:
[1826-1900]
1854 admitted on trial, East Genesee Conference
1856 ordained deacon, East Genesee Conference
ordained
elder, East Genesee Conference
Interment:
Green Mount Cemetery, Dansville NY
Obit:
1854-55 Knoxville
1855-57 Chatham
1857-58 Whitesville
1858-59 Brookfield
1859-60 Westfield
1860-62 Granger
1862-64 Springwater
1864-66 Cohocton
1866-67 Potter
1867-69 Towlesville
1869-71 South Dansville
1871-72 Wayland
1872 transfer to Western New York
Conference by change of boundaries
1876 transfer to Genesee Conference
by change of boundaries
DUNSTAN,
WILLIAM T.
Born:
1890 Camborne, Cornwall England married: Maude Watters
Died:
12-13-1965 obit:
[8/28/1894 – 9/?/1972]
license
Interment:
Little Valley Rural Cemetery, Little Valley NY
Obit:
1915-17 Colden
1918-23 Warrens Corners
1923-25 West Webster
1926-27 Delmar
1928-30 Cambria Center
1930-49 Little Valley Congregational Church
1949-57 Arcade First UCC
Note:
William T. Dunstan is the father of Rev. William A. Dunstan of the Baptist
Church in Maine..
EATON,
SAMUEL WILLIS
Born:
7-8-1869 Hornby NY married:
Matilda Jane Tallmadge [7/3/1895]
Died:
3-20-1956 Canisteo NY obit: Genesee
Conference 1947, 730
1895 license
1896 admitted on trial, Central New York
Conference
1898 ordained deacon, Central New York Conference
ordained
elder
Interment:
Hillside Cemetery, Canisteo NY
Obit:
Genesee Conference 1956, 153
1896-98 Daggett
1898-02 Potter
1902-03 Brooklyn Vandeveer Park, New York
Conference
1903-04 Brooklyn, Gravesend, New York
Conference
1904-08 North Syracuse
1908-10 Stockbridge
1910-12 Montour Falls
1912-13 Blossburg
1913 transfer to Genesee Conference
1913-16 Shinglehouse
1916-18 Silver Springs
1918-21 Olean People’s
1921-24 Avon
1924-25 Rochester Charlotte
1925-28 Spencerport
1928-30 Buffalo South Park
1930-32 Sanborn and Pekin
1932-35 Dalton
1935-38 Avoca and Wallace
1938 retired
1940-41 Bradford
EDGAR,
ABRAM DAWSON
Born:
4-18-1817 Huntingdon PA married: Lucinda
Branch
Died:
11-2-1892 Burdette NY obit: Central
New York Conference 1904, 117
1839 license to exhort
1842 license to preach
1845 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference
1847 ordained deacon, Genesee Conference
1840 ordained elder, East Genesee Conference
Interment:
Lakeview Cemetery, Penn Yan NY
Obit:
Central New York Conference 1893, 102
1842-43 Henrietta
1843-44 Cherry
mission
1844-46 Urbana
1846-48 Columbia
1848 charter member of East Genesee
Conference
1848-50 Canton
1850-52 Knoxville
1852-54 Monterey
1854-55 Savona
1855-56 Italy
1856-58 Jerusalem
1858-60 Cohocton
1860-62 Cokes Chapel and Bristol
1862-63 Sparta
1863-65 Savona
1865-66 Kanona
1866-69 Gorham
1869-70 Junius
1870-72 Branchport
1872 transfer to Central New York
Conference by change of boundaries
1872-73 Wayne and Barrington
1973-75 Big Flats
1875-76 Logan
1876-78 on leave
1877-78 Burdette
and Reynoldsville
1878 retired
ELLISON,
CHAUNCEY W.
Born:
4-2-1901 Reading NY married:
Edna _____
Died:
2-18-2003 Alexandria City VA obit: [3/21/1900 –
7/13/1992]
1923 admitted on trial, Central New York
Conference
1925 ordained deacon, Central New York Conference
ordained
elder
Interment:
Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington VA
Obit:
1923-24 Daggetts
1924-26 Enfield and Kennedys
1926-27 associate, Elmira Centenary
1927-34 student
1934-36 Virgil and East Virgil
1936-38 Groton
1938-41 Wellsburg and Groton
1941-45 Elmira Epworth
1945- chaplain, US Navy
EMERY,
CHARLES WILSON
Born:
8-22-1877 Almond NY married:
Susan Orpha Perry
Died:
10-3-1943 obit:
West Wisconsin Conference 1954, 467
1901 license to preach
1905 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference
1909 ordained deacon, Genesee Conference
Interment:
Rural Cemetery, Hornell NY
Obit:
West Wisconsin Conference 1944, 137
1901-03 Ansonia
1903-04 Naples Second
1904-06 Round
Top
1906-07 Gaines
1907-10 Fremont and Big Creek
1910 transfer to Northern Minnesota
Conference
ENGLER,
LEO JOHN
Born:
8-7-1900 Limestone NY married: Elma
M. Tubbs
Died:
1-7-1971 Olean NY obit:
Western New York Conference 1998, 345
1919 license
1922 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference
Interment:
Annin Creek Cemetery, Turtle Point PA
Obit:
Western New York Conference 1971, 270
1919-20 Turtle Point PA
1920-21 Ceres
1921-22 Centerville
1922-25 Keeneyville
1925-30 Whitesville
1930-35 Knoxville
1935-46 Corning Grace
1946-62 Buffalo Woodside
ENNIS,
J.B.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Genesee Conference
license
admitted
on trial, Genesee Conference
ordained
deacon, Genesee Conference
ordained
elder
Interment:
Obit:
Genesee Conference
1930-35 Gaines
ENSIGN,
ALBERT D.
Born:
2-20-1817 married:
Olive R. Smith
Died:
11-22-1888 obit:
[9/27/1819 - ?]
1853 admitted on trial, Oneida Conference
Interment:
Chestnut Hill Cemetery, Union Springs NY
Obit:
Central New York Conference 1889, 100
1873-75 Chatham
1877 transfer to Central New York
Conference
ESTES,
MARIAN LOUISE
Born:
3-18-1881 Wilkes-Barre PA married: Lias Edgar
Estes (1902)
Died:
1-9-1948 Wellsboro PA obit:
[4/22/1879 – 3/16/1952]
license
Interment:
Wellsboro Cemetery, Wellsboro PA
Obit:
1922-24 Ansonia
1925-26 Round
Top
Note:
Mrs. Estes (nee GEORGE) was a farmer’s wife who served as a lay preacher. See the 1923 journal, page 634, for an
account of her calling.
EVANS,
EMERSON GEORGE
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1899 ordained Christian Church
1902 license, Central New York Conference
1905 admitted on trial
1908 ordained
Interment:
Obit:
1902-94 Wayne and Barrington
1904-06 Italy
1906-08 East Palmyra
1908-09 North Lansing and Asbury
1909-11 Ulster
1911-12 Monroeton
1912 allowed to withdraw
EVANS,
GEORGE
Born:
1-31-1799 Milford PA married:
Died:
1-25-1849 Greene NY obit:
married2:
1825 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference obit2:
1828 ordained into full connection, Genesee
Conference married3: Armenia Fellows
(11/12/1825)
ordained
elder obit3:
[10/3/1803 – 9/26/1880]
Interment:
Lower Genegantslet Cemetery, Greene NY
Obit:
Genesee Conference
1825-26 Tioga
1825-27 Broome
1827-29 Bainbridge
1829 charter member of Oneida
Conference
1829-31 Canaan
1831-33 Bridgewater
1833-35 Brooklyn
1835-37 Pike
1837-38 Wyalusing
1838-39 Orwell
1839-40 Broome
Note:
A detailed obituary for George Evans appears in the 3/21/1849 Northern Christian Advocate, page
1. The third Mrs. Evans is a sister to
David and Nathan Fellows. She is
reported to have been the first white child born in the Tioga-Bradford county
area where her family settled, and she is the namesake of Armenia township in
Bradford County. Widowed in 1849, she
later married a Mr. John Bunnell (1790-1872) of Tunkhannock – one of the
original Bunnell brothers for whom Bunnell Hill, Wyoming County, is named.
EVERETT,
ISAAC
Born:
2-5-1823 Norwich NY married:
Jane Amanda Willson
Died:
9-21-1885 Westfield PA obit: Genesee
Conference 1914, 141
1857 admitted on trial, East Genesee Conference
1859 ordained deacon, East Genesee Conference
ordained
elder, East Genesee Conference
Interment:
Chenango Cemetery, Troupsburg NY
Obit:
Genesee Conference 1885, 114
1857-59 Caton
1859-61 Thurston
1861-63 Whitesville
1863-65 Canisteo
1865-66 on leave
1866-68 Whitesville
1868-71 Knoxville
1871-72 Mainesburg
1872 transfer to Central New York
Conference by change of boundaries
1872-73 Mainesburg
1873-76 Westfield
1876 transfer to Genesee Conference
by change of boundaries
1876-78 Burlington
1878-79 Lindley
1879-82 North Cohocton
1882-83 Hammondsport
1883 retired
Note:
This surname is also reported as EVERITT.
Mrs. Everett is a sister to Rev. John A. Willson (1841-1916), a local
preacher in the Genesee Conference.
FARNHAM,
SCHUYLER CHAMBERLIN
Born:
12-25-1845 Lowell MA married: Mary
Ophelia Fernald
Died:
11-12-1916 obit: Genesee
Conference 1901, 139
married2:
Happy Cook (4/2/1892)
obit2:
[Genesee Conference 1928, 120]
1872 admitted on trial, New Hampshire Conference
1874 ordained deacon, New Hampshire Conference
ordained
elder, New Hampshire
Interment:
Wyoming Cemetery, Wyoming NY
Obit:
Genesee Conference 1917, 119
1872-74 East Canaan
1874-76 Exeter
1876-77 Derry
1877-79 Methuen
1879-80 South New Markey
1880 transfer to Genesee Conference
1880-81 Pavilion and Covington
1881-82 Alexander
1882-85 on leave
1884-85
Alden
1885-91 retired
1886-87 Stafford
1887-88 East
Elba
1891-93 on leave
1892-93 Kanona
1893-94 Painted Post
1894-97 Knoxville
1897-01 Spencer, Hornellsville and Almond
1901-02 Webster
1902-05 East Bloomfield
1905-06 Alabama
1906-07 Alexander
1907-11 Wyoming
FARNSWORTH,
GEORGE
Born: married:
Died: obit:
license
Interment:
Obit:
1922-23 Terrytown
Note:
George Farnsworth served as a supply preacher.
This may be the Rev. George Walker Farnsworth (1876-1959) buried in
Laurel Hill Cemetery, Odessa NY.
FELLOWS,
DAVID JR.
Born: married:
Died:
1849 obit:
Genesee Conference
1834 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference
1836 ordained deacon, Genesee Conference
ordained
elder
Interment:
Obit:
Genesee Conference
1834-35 Painted Post
1835-36 Ulysses and Trumansburg
1836-38 Catherine
1838 transfer to Arkansas Conference
1839-42 located
1842 readmitted to Genesee Conference
1842-44 Wyoming [NY]
1844-45 Covington [NY]
1845-46 Honeoye Falls
1846-47 located
1847 readmitted to Rock River
Conference
Note:
David Fellows is a brother to Nathan Fellows and Armenia Fellows Evans, wife of
George Evans.
FELLOWS,
J.A.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Interment:
Obit:
1870-71 Delmar
Note:
J.A. Fellows served as a supply preacher.
Nothing else is known about him.
FELLOWS,
NATHAN
Born:
8-28-1807 Poultney VT married:
Eliza Dewey
Died:
3-7-1875 Covington PA obit: Genesee
Conference 1897, 122
1831 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference
1833 ordained deacon, Genesee Conference
ordained elder, Genesee Conference
Interment:
Evergreen Cemetery, Tioga PA
Obit:
Central New York Conference 1875, 90
1831-33 Loyalsock
1833-34 Amity
1834-35 Troupsburg
1835-36 Knoxville and Troupsburg
1836-37 Sweden
and Brookfield
1837-38 Churchville
1838-39 Chucrhville and Chili
1839-41 Parma
1841-42 Pavilion and Covington [NY]
1842-43 Pavilion
1943-45 Rushford
1845-47 Starkey
1847-48 Benton
1848 charter member of East Genesee
Conference
1848-49 superintendent,
Wellsboro District
1849-52 superintendent, Corning District
1852-53 Bath
1853-55 Horseheads
1855-56 Trumansburg
1856-58 Penn Yan
1858-60 Rochester North Street
1860-62 Towanda
1862-65 Bellona
1865-66 Avon
1866-67 Tioga
and Lawrenceville
1867-69 Millport
1869-70 on leave
1869-70 Blossburg
1870 retired
1872 transfer
to Central New York Conference by change of boundaries
Note:
Nathan Fellows is a brother to David Fellows Jr. and Armenia Fellows Evans,
wife of George Evans. He was noted as an evangelist and was instrumental in the
founding of the Methodist school at Mansfield (now Mansfield University).
FENTON,
ALBERT WINFIRLD
Born:
4-14-1856 married:
Addie L. Tibbals
Died:
1-31-1911 Mansfield PA obit: Central
New York Conference 1941, 109
1892 license
1893 admitted on trial, Central New York
Conference
1895 ordained deacon, Central New York Conference
1897 ordained elder, Central New York Conference
Interment:
Clearview Cemetery, North Cohocton NY
Obit:
Central New York Conference 1911, 161
1892-95 Burlington
1895-01 Montour Falls
1901-05 Elmira Oakwood Avenue
1905-07 Port Byron
1907-11 Mansfield
FERRIS,
DAVID
Born:
2-6-1805 Decatur NY married:
Phoebe Wildman
Died:
5-27-1865 Clifton Springs NY obit: Central New York
Conference 1886, 101
1839 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference
1841 ordained deacon, Genesee Conference
ordained
elder, Genesee Conference
Interment:
Clifton Springs Village Cemetery, Clifton Springs NY
Obit:
East Genesee Conference 1865, 20
1848 charter member of East Genesee
Conference
1848-49 Clyde
1849-50 Rogersville
1850-51 Dansville
1851-52 Rush
1852-54 Waterloo
1854-56 Seneca Falls
1856-58 Troy
1858-59 Dresden
1859-60 Clifton
1860-61 Emory Chapel and Reed’s
1861-52 Junius
1862-65 Ridge
FINCH,
MARION CHARLES
Born:
6-28-1918 Nelson PA married:
Barbara Jean Davis
Died:
5-27-2005 Silver Lake NY obit: Western New York
Conference 2005, 227
1945 license
1950 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference
1954 ordained deacon, Genesee Conference
ordained
elder
Interment:
Nelson Cemetery, Nelson PA
Obit:
Western New York Conference 2005, 223
1946-56 Whitneyville
– Coolidge Hollow – Catlin Hollow – Round Top
1956-61 associate, East Aurora
1961-62 associate, Bradford
FISHER,
OLIVER DANIEL
Born:
7-29-1865 Ossining NY married:
Minnie C. McKenzie
Died:
11-5-1931 Syracuse NY obit: Central
New York Conference 1942, 103
1888 license
1890 admitted on trial, Central New York
Conference
1892 ordained deacon, Central New York Conference
1895 ordained elder, Central New York
Interment:
Oakwood Cemetery, Syracuse NY
Obit:
Central New York Conference 1932, 158
1890-91 Tyre
1891-92
1892-95 Cicero
1895-96 Borodino
1896-99 South Onondaga
1899-02 Euclid
1902-04 Liverpool
1904-06 Ulster
1906-08 Lysander
1908-11 Chittenango
1911- Moravia
FISHER,
ORAL FLETCHER
Born:
8-18-1919 Gibson County IH married: Betsy Louis
Phillips
Died:
9-1-1987 Grand Island NY obit: Upper New
York Conference 2011, 387
license
admitted
on trial, Genesee Conference
Interment:
Obit:
Western New York Conference 1988, 371
Central New York
Conference
1952 “transfer” to Genesee Conference
1952-56 Genesee, Shongo and
Stannards
1985 retired
Note:
Oral F. Fisher served as a local preacher.
FLEMING,
JAMES SMITH
Born:
10-30-1879 Glasgow, Scotland married: Jessie Linza
Died:
2-19-1974 Eldred PA obit:
[8/5/1882 – 9/13/1938]
married2: Cora E. Reese
1907 license to preach obit2: Western New York
Conference 1987, 337
1908 admitted on trial, East Maine Conference
1910 ordained deacon, Genesee Conference
ordained
elder, Genesee Conference
Interment:
Fairview Cemetery, Eldred PA
Obit:
Western New York Conference 1974, 224
1907-08 Covington
and Lambs Creek
(part year)
1908 “transfer” to East Main
Conference
1908-09 Kingman and Prentiss (part year)
1909 transfer to Genesee Conference
1909-12 Fowlerville and Greigsville
1912-14 West Barre
1914-15 Middleport
1915-18 Smethport
1918-20 secretary, Army YMCA
1920-22 Angelica
1922-24 Buffalo Kensington
1924027 Buffalo South Park
1927-31 Rochester Lewiston Avenue
1931-34 North Chili and Churchville
1934-36 Keeneyville
and Little Marsh
1936-40 Salamanca People’s and Killbuck
1940-44 Eldred
1944-50 Alden
1950-52 Naples
1952 retired
1952-58 Buffalo
St. Andrews (American-Scandinavian)
FOX,
CHARLES SHELDON.
Born:
12-15-1830 Kingsville OH married:
Catherine B. Murray
Died:
2-4-1904 Bellevue MI obit:
Michigan Conference 1898, 333
1856 admitted on trial, East Genesee Conference
1858 ordained deacon, East Genesee Conference
ordained
elder, East Genesee Conference
Interment:
Greenwood Cemetery, Grand Rapids MI
Obit:
Michigan Conference 1904, 106
1856-58 Kanona
1858-60 Castleton and Hopewell
1860-61 Dansville
1861063 Nunda
1863-66 Addison
1866-68 Palmyra
1868-69 Towanda
1869 transfer to Michigan Conference
FRENCH,
CHARLES J.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1858 admitted on trial, East Genesee Conference
1860 ordained deacon, East Genesee Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1858-60 Loyalsock
1860-61 Frenchtown
1861 located
GALUTIA,
PERCY LORAINE
Born:
10-5-1895 Eldred PA married:
Ruth Pauline Lane (1923)
Died:
6-2-1928 North Hornell NY obit: [10/20/1901 –
11/26/1978]
license
Interment:
Woodlawn Cemetery, Canisteo NY
Obit:
1921-22 Little
Marsh
Note: P.L. Galutia served as a supply
preacher. He was a farmer and give up
the ministry when he entered the New York School of Agriculture at Alfred. He died at age 32 after being gored by a
bull. In 1936, the widowed Mrs. Galutia
married a Mr. Otto Ellsworth Gordon (1905-1966).
GARDNER,
CHARLES MORRIS
Born:
8-4-1820 Philadelphia PA married: Permelia
Ann Cole [4/12/1838]
Died:
10-1-1905 Hornell NY obit:
Genesee Conference 1904, 128
1850 admitted on trial, East Genesee Conference
1852 ordained deacon, East Genesee Conference
ordained
elder
Interment:
Hope Cemetery, Hornell NY
Obit:
Genesee Conference 1905, 130
1850-51 Painted Post
1851-53 Watkins
1853-55 Addison
1855-57 Bath
1857-59 Clifton Springs
1859-61 Dundee
1861-63 Avon
1863-64 Danville
1864-67 Hornellsville
1867-70 Mount Morris
1870-72 Horseheads
1872 transfer by change on boundaries
to Central New York Conference
1872-73 Horseheads
1873-73 Chemung
1875-77 Havana
1882 transfer to Genesee Conference
1887-89 Knoxville
GARDNER,
GEORGE AUGUSTUS
Born:
2-17-1858 Babylon NY married:
Julia Dickerson
Died:
8-1-1925 Nunda NY obit: [1867-1898]
married2:
Anja Vickers (c1899)
1903 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference obit2: Genesee Conference 1962, 715
1905 ordained deacon
Ordained elder
Interment:
Oakwood Cemetery, Nunda NY
Obit:
Genesee Conference 1925, 362
1896-98 Hartsville
1898-99 Lindley and Presho
1899-02 Keeneyville
1902-06 Woodhull
1906-10 Savona and Sonora
1910-15 Clarenden and Hulberton
1915-17 Indian Falls and Indian Mission
1917-25 Nunda
Note:
The birth year of the second Mrs. Gardner is not given in the conference
obituary. She was born in 1871 and was
from Keeneyville.
GARNER,
RICHARD C.
Born:
1887 Brisbane Australia married: Lena
Belle Cole
Died:
1967 obit:
[8/15/1894 – 1/?/1984]
license
Interment:
Fairview Cemetery, Allentown PA
Obit:
1921-22 Tioga
and Farmington
“transfer” to Assembly
of God
1925-26 Lancaster PA First Pentecostal
(beginning 6/1925 and ending 3/1926)
1949-62 Allentown PA Glad Tidings Assembly of
God
Note: Richard C. Garner served as a supply
preacher. He apparently moved quite a
bit – his children were born in Ashtabula OH (1919) and Lancaster PA (1933) –
and his exact status is not known. Mrs.
Garner is the daughter of Rev. Eugene S. Cole, a brother to Rev. Homer Eugene
Cole and she is also described as “Reverend” – again, with exact status
unknown.
GATES,
DAVID WITTY
Born:
12-10-1835 Silver Creek NY married: Marion Helen
Purdy
Died:
7-4-1929 obit:
Genesee Conference 1915, 134
1860 license to preach
1867 admitted on trial, East Genesee Conference
1875 ordained deacon, Genesee Conference
ordained
elder, Genesee Conference
Interment:
Rural Cemetery, Hornell NY
Obit:
Genesee Conference 1929, 308
1866-68 Merchantsville
1868 discontinued
1871-72 Wayne
1872 “transfer” Genesee Conference
1872-75 Hammondsport
1875-78 Cohocton
1878-81 Canisteo
1881-84 Addison
1884-85 Osceola
1885-89 Castile
1889-93 Livonia
1893-95 East Aurora
1895-97 Holley
1897-00 Clarence
1900-04 agent and treasurer, Conference
Invested Funds
1904 retired
GIBSON,
GARDNER WINSLOW
Born:
2-3-1835 Moira NY married: Elnora P. Doud
Died:
1-26-1913 Moira NY obit:
Genesee Conference 1905, 155
1862 admitted on trial, Black River Conference
1864 ordained deacon, Black River Conference
ordained
elder, Black River Conference
Interment:
East Otto Cemetery, East Otto NY
Obit:
Genesee Conference 1913, 146
1862-63 Nicholville
1863-64 North Potrsdam
1864-65 Parishville
1865-66 Nicholville
1866-69 Natural Bridge
1869-70 Pamelia
1870-72 on leave
1870-71 Dynellon
NJ
1871-72 Hammonton
1872 transfer to Central New York
Conference
1872-75 Lawrenceville
1875-76 Canton
1876 transfer to Genesee Conference
by change of boundaries
1876-78 Canton
1878-80 Caanaserage
1880-83 Pike
1883086 East Otto
1886-88 Friendship
1888-93 Andover
1893-97 Allen’s Hill
1897-01 Scottsville
1901-04 Franklinville
1904-05 North Ridge and Dickersonville
1905 retired
GIBSON,
OTIS LLOYD
Born:
7-20-1831 Pomfret VT married:
Frances A. Sweet
Died:
11-14-1881 Otsego MI obit:
[2/2/1838 – 2/22/1893]
1858 admitted on trial, East Genesee Conference
1860 ordained deacon, East Genesee Conference
ordained
elder, East Genesee Conference
Interment:
Mountain Home Cemetery, Otsego MI
Obit:
Michigan Conference 1882, 44; Genesee Conference 1882, 104
1858-59 principal, Randolph Academy
1859-61 principal, Penn Yan Academy
1861-63 Troy
1863-65 Newark
1856-67 Elmira Hedding
1867-70 Wellsboro
1870-72 Towanda
1872 transfer to Central New York
Conference by change of boundaries
1878 transfer to Genesee Conference
1878-81 Lima
1881 transfer to Michigan Conference
Note:
Mrs. Gibson was originally from Michigan and met and married Otis L. Gibson
while serving as preceptress at Penn Yan Academy 1859-60.
GILES,
HENRY THOMAS
Born:
6-27-1821 Sauquoit NY married:
Margaret Hellen Haight [1851]
Died:
10-4-1894 Geneva NY obit: [1828
– 3/18/1865]
married2:
Henrietta Gilmore [1865]
1855 admitted on trial, East Genesee Conference obit2: Central New York Conference 1899, 108
1857 ordained deacon, East Genesee Conference
ordained
elder, East Genesee Conference
Interment:
Montezuma Rural Cemetery, Cayuga County PA
Obit:
Central New York Conference 1894, 127
1855-56 Jacksonville
1856-57 Ovid and Sheldrake
1857-58 Canoga
1858-59 Mt. Morris and Ridge
1859-61 Macedon and Perinton
1861-63 Addison
1863-65 Sodus
1865-66 West Webster
1866-68 Horseheads
1868-69 Mansfield
1869 transfer to Rock River
Conference
1869 transfer to Central New York
Conference
GLASIER,
WALTER J.C.
Born:
2-5-1887 Fowler IL married:
Nellie May Hill
Died:
3-8-1971 Quincy IL obit:
[5/30/1888 – 11/6/1972]
1907 license
1912 admitted on trial, Northwest Kansas
Conference
1913 ordained deacon, Kansas Conference
ordained
elder
Interment:
Quincy Memorial Park, Quincy IL
Obit:
Western New York Conference 1971, 272
1911-12 Phillipsburg
1912-13 at school
1913 transfer to Kansas Conference
1913-14 Alma
1914-16 Linwood
1916-18 Norton NJ
1918-27 faculty, Taylor University in Upland
IN
1927 transfer to Genesee Conference
1927-30 Knoxville
1930-34 Canisteo
1934-36 Hartland – North Hartland
1936 retired
Note:
Walter J.C. Glasier is the father of Rev. Kenneth Hill Glasier (1914-1940) of
the Illinois Conference.
GORDON,
JAMES T.
Born:
1-27-1870 married:
Mary Johnson
Died:
2-6-1953 obit:
Central New York Conference 1963, 163
1919 admitted on trial, Central New York
Conference
1921 ordained deacon, Central New York Conference
ordained
elder
Interment:
Scotchtown Cemetery, Erin NY
Obit:
Central New York Conference 1953, 126
1919-20 Big Flats
1920-22 Millerton
and Jackson
1922-26 Beaver Dam
1926-30 Newfield and Trumbulls
1930-35 Ulster
and Milan
1935-37 Jordan and Peru
1837 retired
GRAHAM,
CURTIS
Born:
4-5-1818 Catskill NY married:
[1844]
Died:
2-10-1906 Brooklyn NY obit:
[1821-1861]
married2:
Emma F. Brown
1845 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference obit2: [1834-1907]
1847 ordained deacon, Genesee Conference
ordained
elder, East Genesee Conference
Interment:
Rose Hill Cemetery, Matawan NJ
Obit:
[Seneca KS The Courier-Tribune,
2/15/1906, page 1]
1845-46 Collins Center
1848 charter member of East Genesee
Conference
1848-50 Whitesville
1850-51 Tioga
1851-52 no appointment
1852-54 Tyrone
1854-56 Orange
1856-57 Barrington and Starkey
1857 transfer to Kansas and Nebraska
Conference
1861 charter member of Kansas Conference
1862 located
Note:
Ralph Tennal’s 1916 History of Nemaha
County Kansas, page 145, reports the following: “Rev. Curtis Graham. Who
pioneered in Nemaha county, but moved back to New York later where he died
about ten years ago, was an intimate friend of Jim Lane. He came out to Kansas in 1856, presumably to
be of what assistance he could be to General Lane. In the year of the great drouth Dr. Graham
went east to secure succor and funds to relieve the suffering in Kansas. He secured thousands of dollars in money and
food.”
GRAMES,
R.C.
Born:
2-27-1853 Howard NY married: Mary
Stewart Beecher
Died:
11-13-1918 Dalton NY obit:
Genesee Conference 1895, 131
married2:
Maria Catherine Treichler
1876 license to preach obit2: Genesee Conference
1921, 291
1878 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference
1880 ordained deacon, Genesee Conference
ordained
elder, Genesee Conference
Interment:
Mount View Cemetery, Pekin NY
Obit:
Genesee Conference 1919, 123
1876-77 DeGolia and Custer City
1877-78 Belmont
1878-80 Limestone
1880-83 Sanborn
1883-84 Lockport Clinton Street
1884-87 Andover
1887-89 Rushford
1889-94 Olean Ninth Street
1894-95 Ulysses
1895-98 Rochester Hedding
1898-00 Niagara Falls St. James
1900-02 Westfield
1902-06 Prattsburg
1906-09 Sanborn
1909-11 Kanona
Note:
The second Mrs. Grames was the widow of a Dr. Albert.H. Flood (1846-1877).
GRANDIN,
JAMES L. SEABURY
Born:
4-17-1804 Papakating NJ married:
Elizabeth M. Knapp
Died:
4-21-1891 Elmira NY obit:
Central New York Conference 1888, 96
1841 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference
1845 ordained deacon, Genesee Conference
ordained
elder, Genesee Conference
Interment:
Woodlawn Cemetery, Elmira NY
Obit:
Central New York Conference 1891, 127
1842 discontinued
1843 readmitted to Genesee Conference
1848 charter member of East Genesee
Conference
1848-50 Loyalsock
1850-51 Bethel
1851-52 Henrietta
1852-54 Canadice
1854-55 Groveland
1855-57 Ridge
1857-58 Cokes Chapel and Bristol
1858-60 Springwater
1860-62 Enfield
1862-63 Orange
1863-65 Baldwin
1865-66 Merchantville
1866 retired
1872
transfer to Central New York Conference by change of boundaries
GRANT,
LORING
Born:
2-25-1789 Queens NY married:
Betsy K. Keeney (1811)
Died:
9-15-1870 Pentwater MI obit:
[4/6/1796 – 1/10/1867]
1809 admitted on trial, Philadelphia Conference
ordained
deacon, Genesee Conference
ordained
elder
Interment: Riverside Cemetery, Albion MI
Obit:
East Genesee Conference 1871, 37
1809-10 Northumberland
1810 charter member of Genesee
Conference
1810-11 Tioga
1811-12 Holland Purchase and Caledonia
1812-13 Canaan
1813-14 Shenango
1814-16 Lebanon
1816-17 Cayuga
1817-18 Crooked Lake
1818-20 Seneca
1820-21 Lyons
1821-22 Crooked Lake
1822-23 conference missionary
1823-24 Ithaca and Caroline
1824-25 Caroline
1825-29 superintendent, Buffalo District
1840 transfer
to Michigan Conference
Note:
Loring Grant was instrumental in the founding and building up of Albion College
in Albion MI. Mrs. Grant was from Black
Walnut, near Meshoppen PA.
GREEN,
CHARLES EDWARD
Born:
8-25-1877 Dillsboro IN married:
Sarah Abigail Emerson [12/22/1906]
Died:
9-13-1952 Schenectady NY obit: [1876 –
4/3/1951]
1907 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference
1909 ordained deacon, Genesee Conference
ordained
elder, Genesee Conference
Interment:
Forest Hill Cemetery, Attica NY
Obit:
1906-08 Little
Marsh
(starting mid 1906-07)
1908-10 Harrison
Valley
1910-11 Moscow and Covington
1911-13 ?
1913-16 student, Syracuse University
1916-18 teaching fellow, Syracuse University
faculty, University of
Pennsylvania
faculty, Nebraska State
University
faculty, State
University of North Carolina
head, department of
modern languages, Centenary College in Shreveport LA
Note:
Charles E. Green earned a BS, MA, PhD in Spanish from Syracuse University in
1915, 1916 and 1921 respectively. Mrs.
Green graduated from Syracuse University in Geology in 1905. In 1926 she was the State Superintendent of the
Young Peoples Branch of the WCTU of Louisiana.
GREGSON,
ARTHUR
Born:
6-26-1881 Blackburn, England married: Ada S. _____
Died:
8-26-1964 obit:
Western New York Conference 1968, 243
1905 license, Genesee Conference
1912 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference
1914 ordained deacon, Genesee Conference
ordained
elder
Interment:
Obit:
Western New York Conference 1965, 545
1911-13 Harrison
Valley
1913-15 Osceola
1915-16 Ceres
1916-17 Gages Lake IL
1917-18 Leaf River IL
1918-23 Smethport
1923-28 Coudersport
1928-35 Bolivar
1935-41 Medina
1941-47 Wellsboro
1947-50 Portville – Weston Mills
1950-53 Warsaw
1953 retired
GRIFFIN,
JOHN
Born:
10-18-1784 Guilford CT married: Lydia
Redfield [1808]
Died:
12-20-1844 Owego NY obit:
[7/10/1792 – 12/13/1872]
1814 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference
1816 ordained deacon, Genesee Conference
ordained
elder
Interment:
Tioga Cemetery, Owego NY
Obit:
Genesee Conference
1814-15 Tioga
1815-16 Oswego
1816-18 Wyalusing
1818-20 Tioga
1820-21 Bridgewater
1821-22 Broome
1822-23 Wyalusing
1823-24 Bainbridge
1824-25 Wyalusing and Spencer
1825-26 Spencer
1826-27 Wyalusing
1827-29 Spencer
1829 charter member of the Oneida
Conference
NOTE:
This surname is also rendered GRIFFING.
GRIFFING,
ARTHUR MORROW
Born:
11-5-1911 NE married: Grace
Adelaide Snell [1937]
Died:
2-6-1996 Sacramento CA obit: [2/11/1912
– 2/14/2004]
1931 license
1932 admitted on trial, Central New York
Conference
1936 ordained deacon, Central New York Conference
ordained
elder
Interment:
Obit:
1933-35 South Onondaga
1935-37 student
1937 Delmar
larger parish
(part year)
1937 transfer to Genesee Conference
1937-38 Delmar
larger parish
1938-40 Livonia
1940-41 Warren’s Corners – Eat Wilson –
Pendleton Center
1941 located
GROSS,
ALFRED JOHN
Born:
4-25-1907 married:
Agnes Isaacson
Died:
1-30-1994 obit:
[4/28/1909 – 3/1/2002]
1928 license
1929 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference
1931 ordained deacon, Genesee Conference
ordained
elder
Interment:
Ridge Lawn Cemetery, Cheektowaga NY
Obit:
Western New York Conference 1994, 315
1929-31 Bliss and Eagle
1931-33 Sardinia
1932-33 Sandusky
1933-38 Angelica
1938-42 Arcade
1942-48 Buffalo Kensington
1948-49 dean, Genesee Junior College
1949-52 Rochester Centenary
1952-56 Wellsboro
1956-62 faculty, Alfred University
GUILES,
FLOYD EUGENE
Born:
6-1-1909 married:
Mabel Elizabeth Schmidt (6/6/1931)
Died:
2-8-1988 obit:
[4/21/1908 – 1/15/2004]
1930 admitted on trial, Central New York
Conference
1935 ordained deacon, Central New York Conference
ordained
elder
Interment:
Fort Hill Cemetery, Auburn NY
Obit:
North Central New York Conference 1988, 352
1933-38 East
Troy, West Burlington and Leona
1938-43 Dundee and Starkey
1943- Mansfield
Note:
Floyd E. Guiles is the son of Leonard A. Guiles.
GUILES,
LEONARD ADELBERT
Born:
5-4-1887 married:
Jennie Rose Ott
Died:
4-15-1955 obit:
Central New York Conference 1979, 285
1924 admitted on trial, Central New York
Conference
1926 ordained deacon, Central New York Conference
ordained
elder
Interment:
Tioga Cemetery, Owego NY
Obit:
Central New York Conference 1955, 136
1924-28 Millerton
1928-37 Wellsburg and Lowman
1937-48 Canton
1941-48 Ward
1948- Elmira Westside
Note:
Leonard A. Guiles is the father of Floyd E. Guiles.
GURNSEY,
SAMUEL P.
Born:
1818 NY married:
Mary Ann White [8/14/1849]
Died: obit:
[4/?/1832 - ?]
1848 admitted on trial, East Genesee Conference
1854 ordained deacon, East Genesee Conference
ordained
elder, East Genesee Conference
Interment:
Oakwood Cemetery, Nunda NY
Obit:
1848-49 Cherry
1849 discontinued
1852 re-admitted to East Genesee
Conference
1852-53 Phillips Creek mission
1853-54 Angelica
1854-55 Italy Hollow
1855-56 Charleston
1856-57 Harrison
1857-58 Knoxville
and Chatham
1858-59 Ulysses
1859-60 Sparta
1860-62 Fremont
1862 located
Note:
Samuel P. Gurnsey is listed in the 1880 census as a retired preacher living in
Nunda Station NY. He appears to have
died between 1883 and 1900.
GUTHRIE,
CHARLES ELLSWORTH
Born:
5-26-1867 Terra Alta WV married: Beulah
Cowan
Died:
7-26-1940 obit:
Genesee Conference 1934, 547
married2:
Mrs. Gladys Mae Owen Snyder [1936]
license,
Baltimore Conference obit2:
[5/2/1890 – 3/6/1941]
admitted
on trial, Baltimore Conference
ordained
deacon, Baltimore Conference
ordained
elder, Baltimore Conference
Interment:
Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington DC
Obit:
Genesee Conference 1940, 77
1887-88 Hancock
1888-89 Rawlings
1889-90 Walkersville
1890-93 Baltimore circuit
1893-94 Baltimore Summerfield
1894-98 Baltimore Columbia Avenue
1898-01 Baltimore St. John’s Independent
Methodist Church
1901-07 Baltimore Park Place – Strawbridge
1907-10 Washington DC Hamline
1910 transfer to Wyoming Conference
1910-15 Wilkes-Barre PA
1915 transfer to Genesee Conference
1915-17 Buffalo Richmond Avenue
1917-24 general secretary, Epworth League
1924-26 Syracuse University Church
1926-32 superintendent, Buffalo District
1932-36 Easy Aurora
1936-39 Coudersport
and Sweden Valley
1939 retired
Note:
The second Mrs. Guthrie (nee Owen) was the widow of a Mr. Israel David Snyder
who died in 1935. Charles E. Guthrie was
director of the noted 1913 Wilkes-Barre Billy Sunday crusade.
HAKES,
GARY LEON
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1952 license
1959 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1957-60 Knoxville
– Austinburg
1960-62 student
1962 transfer to Central New York
Conference
Note:
Gary L. Hakes is the author of Christians
Incompatible with Christ.
HALL,
EDWARD O.
Born:
1813 Bristol NY married: Delia Frances
Latting
Died:
3-2-1866 Rogersville NY obit: Central
New York Conference 1909, 160
1835 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference
1837 ordained deacon, Genesee Conference
1839 ordained elder, Genesee Conference
Interment:
Obit:
East Genesee Conference 1866, 20
1835-36 Catherine circuit
1836-37 Warsaw and Wyoming
1837-38 Parma
1838-39 Buffalo
1839-42 on leave for ill health
1842 located
1856 “transfer” to East Genesee
Conference
1856-57 Potter
1857-59 Avoca
1859-60 Cokes Chapel and Bristol
1860-61 Springfield
1861-62 Jackson
1862-64 Pultneyville
1864-65 Canoga
1865-66 Rogersville
Note:
While located c1850, Edward O. Hall served as superintendent of schools in
Manchester NY. Mrs. Hall is buried in
Brookside Cemetery, Shortsville NY
HALL,
EDWIN GARDNER WALLACE
Born:
12-17-1840 Antwerp NY married: Olive Cornelia
Hutchings
Died:
7-26-1919 Kenmore NY obit: Genesee
Conference 1901, 138
Msrried2:
Mrs. Julia Frances Kellogg Mandeville [1903]
1865 license to preach obit2: Genesee
Conference 1919, 142
1877 admitted on trial, Bay of Quinte Conference
[Canadian ME Church]
1881 ordained deacon, Bayof Quinte Conference [Canadian ME]
ordained
elder, Genesee Conference
Interment:
Riverside Cemetery, Knoxville PA
Obit:
Genesee Conference 1919, 134
1869-70 West Danby NY
1870-71 North Evanston IL
1875-76 DesPlains IL
1876-77 Meacham IL
1877 “transfer” Bay of Quinte
Conference
1877-81 conference evangelist
1881 transfer to Genesee Conference
1881-82 Greenwood
1882-82 Pulteney
1883-85 Cohocton
1885-88 South Addison
1888-90 Jasper
1890-92 Gainesville
1892-94 Alabama
1894-97 Evans and Brant
1897-99 Knoxville
1899-01 Cameron
1901-02 Pike and Lamont
1902-04 Ionia
1904-06 Nunda
1906-08 Holland and Protection
1908-10 Garland and Otis
1910-11 Williamsville
Note:
The second Mrs. Hall (nee Kellogg) was the widow of a Mr. John H.
Mandeville. She is the daughter of Rev.
Israel H. Kellogg (1812-1901) of the Genesee Conference.
HALSTED,
WINTON HAROLD
Born:
9-15-1916 Prattsburgh NY married: IvoneW.
Wright
Died:
12-24-2005 Cincinnati OH obit: [1914
1934 license
1938 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference
1941 ordained deacon, Genesee Conference
ordained
elder
Interment:
Obit:
[Cincinnati Enquirer 12/26/2005]
1936-38 Eagle
1938-40 Genesee and Shango
1940-42 Greece and Maiden Lane
1942-46 chaplain, US Army
1946-50 Olean Peoples
1948-50 Allegany
1950-51 Sandy Creek
“transfer” to
Presbyterian Church
Cincinnati Knox
Note:
This surname is sometimes rendered HALSTEAD, and some of the family seem to
have adopted that spelling. Mrs. Halsted
is a 1926 graduate of Houghton College in Houghton MY.
HAMMOND,
STEPHEN YATES
Born:
9-14-1809 Pharasalia NY married: Martha
Adams [1833]
Died:
11-23-1892 Binghamton NY obit: [5/14/1809 –
4/16/1863]
married2:
Mary Anne Chamberlayne Parsons [1886]
1851 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference obit2: Genesee Conference 1919, 124
1853 ordained deacon, Genesee Conference
ordained
elder
Interment:
Obit:
Genesee Conference 1893, 140
1851-53 Coudersport
Note:
The second Mrs. Hammond is the sister of Owen S. Chamberlaye, daughter of Rev.
Israel Chamberlayne (1795-1875) of the Genesee Conference, and the widow of a
Mt. Parsons.
HARES,
GEORGE SAMUEL GADD
Born:
2-11-1878 Marcellus NY married: Bertha
Leah Bigelow [1/1/1907]
Died:
2-20-1963 Corning NY obit: Genesee
Conference 1921, 292
married2:
Genevieve Borden [4/16/1922]
1904 license to preach obit2: Western New York
Conference 1967, 1129
1907 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference
1909 ordained deacon, Genesee Conference
ordained
elder, Genesee Conference
Interment:
Lake View Cemetery, Skaneateles NY
Obit:
Genesee Conference 1963, 988
1904 Osceola
and Elkland
(3 months)
1904-05 Onondaga Hill
1905-06 Orleans MA
1907-11 West Barre and East Shelby
1911-17 Niagara St. Paul’s
1917-28 Corning First
1928-36 Lockport Emanuel
1936-46 Buffalo Woodside
1946-50 Victor
1950 retired
Note:
The dates for the first Mrs. Hares, not given in her conference obituary, are
2/23/1883 – 2/4/1921. The birthdate for
the second Mrs. Hares, not given in her conference obituary, is 2/14/1882.
HARMON,
GEORGE
Born:
4-7-1783 married:
Maria German
Died:
3-14-1878 obit:
Central New York Conference 1876, 74
1807 admitted on trial, Philadelphia Conference
1809 ordained deacon, Philadelphia Conference
1811 ordained elder, Genesee Conference
Interment:
Wheeler Cemetery, Camillus NY
Obit:
Central New York Conference 1878, 68
1807-08 Dauphin
1808-09 Smyrna
1809-10 Talbot
1810 charter member of Genesee
Conference
1810-11 Canaan
1811-12 Lyons
1812-15 superintendent,
Susquehanna District
1815-18 superintendent, Chenango District
1818-20 Ithaca
1820-22 Manlius
1822-24 Geneva and Canandaigua
1824-25 Utica
1825-27 Westmoreland
1827-28 Camden
1828-29 superintendent, Chenango District
Note:
Following the death of 100-year-old Henry Boehm in 1875, George Harmon became
the oldest living preacher in the entire Methodist Episcopal Church. At the time of their marriage, Mrs. Harmon’s
father Obadiah German was a US Senator from New York (1809-1815).
HARPST,
HENRY
Born:
4-6-1830 Seneca Falls NY married: Catherine
Pennoyer
Died:
5-20-1909 Burlington WA obit: Central New
York Conference 1920, 130
1856 admitted on trial, East Genesee Conference
1858 ordained deacon, East Genesee Conference
ordained
elder, East Genesee Conference
Interment:
Green Hills Memorial Cemetery, Burlington WA
Obit:
Central New York Conference 1909, 155
1856-57 Harmonyville
1857-58 Cohocton
1858-59 Wayland
1859-60 Canaseraga
1860-62 Springwater
1862-64 Andover
1864-65 Middlesex
1865-66 on leave
1866-67 Junius
1867-69 Caton
1869-70 Mecklenburg
1870-71 Townsendville
1871-72 East
Smithfield
1872 transfer to Central New York
Conference by change of boundaries
HARRINGTON,
DORR ELWOOD
Born:
10-12-1912 married:
Ada D. Dunham
Died:
10-27-2000 obit:
[1914 – 1996]
1954 license
1961 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference
1963 ordained elder, Genesee Conference
Interment:
Mount Hope Cemetery, Troupsburg NY
Obit:
1955-59 Keeneyville
– Little Marsh – Niles Valley
1959-66 South Bryon
1959-61 Stafford
1966-74 Silver Springs
1974-78 Hornell East Avenue – Big Creek
1978 retired
HARRINGTON,
RICHARD WILLIAM
Born:
1-19-1931 married:
G. Elaine Foy
Died:
5-25-2016 Rochester NY obit: [1931 –
10/8/2008]
married2:
1955 license obit2:
1959 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference
1961 ordained deacon, Genesee Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1955-58 student, Mansfield State College
1955-58 Galeton
1958-61 student, Duke University
1961-62 associate, Amherst Christ
1962-65 Brockport
1965-66 Farmers in World Affairs
1966-69 Rochester Spencer Ripley
1969-74 Amherst Trinity
1974-80 superintendent, Rochester District
1980-88 Amherst Christ
1988-90 Pendleton Center
1990-94 Lockport Emmanuel
1994 retired
HARRIS,
HORACE
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Genesee Conference
1843 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference
1845 ordained deacon, Genesee Conference
ordained
elder
Interment:
Obit:
Genesee Conference
1843-44 Belfast
1844-45
1845-47 Coudersport
1847-48
1848 charter member of East Genesee
Conference
HARRY,
JOHN BERTRAM
Born:
2-23-1875 Ontario, Canada married: Mary
Rutherford Milliken
Died:
10-1-1940 Eden NY obit: Genesee Conference
1942, 592
1896 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference
1904 ordained deacon, Genesee Conference
ordained
elder
Interment:
Evergreen Cemetery, Eden NY
Obit:
Genesee Conference 1940, 80
Supply, St. John’s River
Conference
1903-04 Bowmansville
1904-07 Evans and Brant
1907 North Collins and Indian Mission
Tonawanda Grace
LaSalle
Marilla
Bolivar
1919-23 Coudersport
East Aurora
Leroy
Wilson
Buffalo East Street
Eden
HARTLEY,
THEOPHILUS S.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1866 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference
1867 ordained deacon, Genesee Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1866-67 Bradford
1867-68 Coudersport
1868 discontinued
Note:
Nothing else is known about T.S. Hartley.
HARTMAN,
JOHN FRANKLIN
Born:
12-7-1868 Quarryville PA married:
Mary Estella
Died:
2-22-1935 obit:
Philadelphia Conference 1959, 1068
1892 license to preach
1896 admitted on trial, Philadelphia Conference
1898 ordained deacon, Philadelphia Conference
ordained
elder, Philadelphia Conference
Interment:
Halifax UMC Cemetery, Halifax PA
Obit:
Philadelphia Conference 1935, 585
1894-95 Mt. Nebo
1895-97 Llanerch
1897-01 Halifax
1901-03 East Mauch Chunk
1903-04 Clifton Heights
1904 transfer to Genesee Conference
1904-08 Akron
1908-11 Albion
Note:
John Franklin Hartman did not served any northern tier churches while a member of
the Genesee Conference. He appears in
this list because his pre-Genesee Conference appointments include Halifax, now
part of the Susquehanna Conference.
HASKELL,
WILLIAM McLELLAN
Born:
6-11-1818 Anson ME married:
Sarah Lawsha
Died:
2-8-1890 Knoxville TN obit: Holston
Conference 1910, 11
1844 admitted on trial, Mississippi Conference
1849 ordained deacon, East Genesee Conference
Interment:
New Salem UMC Cemetery, Knoxville TN
Obit:
Holston Conference 1890, 40
1845 discontinued
1847 “transfer” Genesee Conference
1848 charter member of East Genesee
Conference
1848-49 Jackson
1849-50 Short Tract
1850-51 Granger
1851-53 Angelica
1853-55 Livonia
1855-57 Victor
1857-59 Almond
1859-61 Brookfield
1861-62 Westfield
1862-63 chaplain, 136th
Pennsylvania Volunteers
1863-65 Mansfield
1865-66 Smithfield
1866-67 Forksville
1867-69 Farmington
1869-70 Charleston
1870-71 Woodhull
1871-72 Rogersville
1872 transfer to Genesee Conference
by change of boundaries
1873 transfer to Holston Conference
1880 transfer to Central New York
Conference by change of boundaries
HAVEN,
GEORGE E.
Born:
12-29-1823 Moriah NY married:
Eunice Belsana Peet
Died:
5-27-1870 Eaton Rapids MI obit: Genesee
Conference 1891, 144
1853 admitted on trial, East Genesee Conference
1855 ordained deacon, East Genesee Conference
ordained
elder, East Genesee Conference
Interment:
Webster Rural Cemetery, Webster NY
Obit:
East Genesee Conference 1870, 25
1853-54 Frenchtown
[Asylum]
1854-56 Erin
1856-57 Burdette
1857-59 Millport
1859-61 Bath
1861-63 Sodus
1863-65 Avon
1865-66 Seneca Castle and Orleans
1866-67 Castleton and Orleans
1867-69 Watkins
1869-70 Naples
HAWLEY,
CHARLES STEPHEN HILL
Born:
9-12-1878 Addison NY married:
Minnie Bates
Died:
10-11-1913 Woodhull NY obit: [12/8/1878
– 9/?/1969]
Interment:
Woodhull Cemetery, Woodhull NY
Obit:
Nebraska Conference 1914, 16
1903-04 Covington
Note:
The widowed Mrs. Hawley later married a Mr. Cilley.
HAYES,
CARL WILBUR
Born:
7-22-1883 Buffalo NY married:
Ruth A. Parcells
Died:
9-7-1969 obit:
Genesee Conference 1957, 398
1906 license
1908 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference
1910 ordained deacon, Genesee Conference
ordained
elder
Interment:
Highland Cemetery, Avoca NY
Obit:
Western New York Conference 1970, 259
1908-09 Youngstown and Porter Center
1909-12 Stafford
1912-14 South Byron
1914-17 Westfield
1917-18 Galeton
1918-20 Naples
1920-24 Addison
1924-30 Gowanda
1930-32 Buffalo Kensington
1932-33 Hammondsport
1933-37 Scottsburg Conesus
1936-37 Webster’s
Crossing
1937-39 Wilson
1939-42 Macedon Center – South Perinton
1942-46 Eden
1946-50 Warren’s Corners – North Ridge – East
Wilson
1950-52 Avoca – Wallace
1952 retired
HEIM,
WILLIAM WARDEN
Born:
3-22-1878 Shamokin Dam PA married: Bessie Mabel
Fiedler [/4/1907]
Died:
11-11-1948 obit: [1/3/1879 –
9/11/1951]
1903 license
1907 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference
1909 ordained deacon, Genesee Conference
1910 ordained elder, Genesee Conference
Interment:
Lewisburg Cemetery, Lewisburg PA
Obit:
1905-06 Montandon, Central Pennsylvania
Conference
1906-07 Wharton, Central Pennsylvania
Conference
1907-08 Roulette
1908-10 Ceres and Horse Run
1910-11 Warren’s Corners and East Wilson
1911-13 Fowlerville and Greigsville
1913-14 Evans and Brant
1914-15 North Collins and Indian Mission
1915-16 Darien
1916-17 Gainesville
1917-20 Savona and Campbell
1920-21 Fillmore and Hume
1921-22 Buffalo St. Mark’s
1922-28 on leave
1928 located
HENDERSON,
JOSEPH MILLER
Born:
6-17-1888 England married: Henrietta Bancroft
Died:
7-17-1941 Silver Lake NY obit: Western New
York Conference 1978, 294
1906 license
1912 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference
1915 ordained deacon, Genesee Conference
ordained
elder
Interment:
Oakwood Cemetery, Penfield NY
Obit:
Genesee Conference 1941, 265
1912-14 Tioga
1914-17 Kanona
1917-20 Barker
1920-23 Fairport
1923-27 Oakfield
1927-31 Buffalo Woodside
1931-32 Niagara Falls St. James
1931-35 superintendent, Olean District
1935-38 Rochester District
1938-41 Rochester Grace
HESS,
FREES
Born:
10-15-1877 Divide (Columbia Co.) PA married: Lena F. Fritz
Died:
9-7-1954 Bloomsburg PA obit: [4/28/1877
– 8/?/1971]
1897 license
1897 admitted on trial, West Virginia (?)
Conference of the United Brethren Church
1901 ordained, West Virginia Conference of the
United Brethren Church
Interment:
St. Gabriel Cemetery, Benton PA
Obit:
Genesee Conference 1955, 822
1897-01 Blairsville PA
1901-02 Kingwood
1902-04 Montana
1904-06 St. Mary’s
1906 transfer to South East Ohio
Conference
1906-08 Marietta
1908 “transfer” to Central New York
Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church
1908-09 East
Troy
1909-10 Forksville
1910-16 Burlington
1916-21 Rutland
1921 transfer to Genesee Conference
1921-25 Nelson
1925-28 Dalton
1928-31 Cohocton
1931 retired
Note:
This name is sometimes given as FREAS HESS.
HEWITT,
ALFRED T.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1849 admitted on trial, East Genesee Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1849-50 Springfield
1850-51 Canton
1851 discontinued
HEWITT,
HAROLD FRANK
Born:
10-26-1896 married:
Ruth Evangeline Willisford
Died:
11-18-1982 obit:
Western New York Conference 1987, 338
1920 license
1922 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference
1924 ordained deacon, Genesee Conference
ordained
elder
Interment:
Hunts Hollow Cemetery, Portage NY
Obit:
Western New York Conference 1983, 315
1920-24 student, Union Seminary
1921-22 Tioga
and Farmington (part year)
1924-25 Alden (part year)
1925-29 Buffalo North Delaware
1929-36 Perry
1936-42 North Tonawanda
1942-43 Buffalo Ripley
1943-49 superintendent, Olean District
Memorial
1949-55 East Aurora
1955- Bath
HIBBARD,
GILBERT C.
Born:
1835 married:
Imogene Bateman
Died:
1916 obit:
[1850 – 8/29/1935]
1860 admitted on trial, East Genesee Conference
Interment:
Rome Cemetery, Rome NY
Obit:
1860-61 Ulster
1861 discontinued
Note:
Gilbert C. Hibbard became a medical doctor, as was his son-in-law and two
grandchildren. He practiced in Rome
NY. Mrs. Hibbard moved to Florida in
1924 and is buried in Evergreen Cemetery, Fort Lauderdale FL.
HINMAN,
ORVILLE NEWELL
Born:
1830 married:
Lucetta A. Knapp
Died:
6-13-1894 New Hope NY obit: Central New
York Conference 1917, 141
1857 admitted on trial, Central New York
Conference
1862 ordained deacon, Central New York Conference
1864 ordained elder, Central New York Conference
Interment:
West Hill Cemetery, Homer NY
Obit:
Central New York Conference 1894, 123
1857-58 Georgetown
1858-59 Delphi and Bethel
1859-60 Perryville
1860-61 North Onondaga
1861-62 Union Valley
1862-65 Onondaga Indian Mission
1865-66 Nelson
1866-68 Virgil
1868-70 Borodino
1870-71 Ira
1871-73 New Hope
1873-74 Skaneateles Falls and Elbridge
1874-75 Amber
1875-76 Union Valley
1876-77 Cuyler and DeRuyter
1877-78 on leave
1878-80 Freetown
1880-81 Italy
1881-83 South Sodus
1883-84 Wayne and Barrington
1884-85 New
Albany
1885-87 Ulster
1887-89 South Sodus
1889-90 Erin and Breesport
1890-91 Junius
1891-92 Montezume
HINMAN,
RANSOM
Born:
8-1-1822 Pitcher NY married:
Chloe Harrison [1844]
Died:
5-9-1912 Ulysses NY obit:
[2/10/1824 – 5/8/1899]
license
to preach, East Genesee Conference
Interment:
Ulysses Cemetery, Ulysses PA
Obit:
1869-70 Forksville
1870-71 Dushore
1872-73 Chatham
“transfer” to Genesee
Conference
1893-07 Potter
Brook
Note:
R. Hinman served as a supply pastor. In
the Genesee Conference served as a local deacon.
HITCHCOCK,
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Born:
5-12-1837 Sarnia, Ontario married: Emily
Hazard Burleigh
Died:
6-15-1917 Rochester NY obit: Genesee
Conference 1924, 165
1864 license to preach
1867 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference
1869 ordained deacon, Genesee Conference
ordained
elder, Genesee Conference
Interment:
Avon Cemetery, Avon NY
Obit:
Genesee Conference 1917, 121
1865-66 Jamesville
1866-67 Groveland
1867-68 Kanona
1868-70 Pulteney
1870-71 Reading and Starkey
1871-72 Potter
1872 transfer to Central New York
Conference by change of boundaries
1872-75 Castle and Orleans
1875-76 Williamson
1876 transfer to Genesee Conference
by change of boundaries
1876-78 Williamson
1878-79 Marilla
1879-80 Fowlerville
1880 transfer to Central New York
Conference by change of boundaries
1880-82 Delphi
1882-83 Peterboro
1883-85 on leave
1885-88 Georgetown
1888-89 Asylum
1889 transfer to Genesee Conference
1889-91 Campbell
1891-94 Cohocton
1894-95 Prattsburg
1895-99 East Bloomfield
1899-02 Attica
1902-03 Stafford
1903-06 on leave
1903-04 Rochester
West Avenue (part year)
1904-05 Brighton
1906 retired
HOLMES,
JOHN FRANK
Born:12-12-1910 Pleasanton KS married:
Vera Edith Frank (1934)
Died:
3-26-1991 Canon City CO obit:
Rocky Mountain Conference 1992,209
1932 admitted on trial, Missouri Conference
1927 ordained deacon, Central New York Conference
ordained
elder
Interment:
Lakeside Cemetery, Canon City CO
Obit:
Rocky Mountain Conference 1991, 227
1932-33 student
1933-34 Worth
1934-37 student
1937 transfer to Central New York
Conference
1937-38 Potter, Yatesville and Italy Valley
1938-41 East
Canton, Windfall and West Leroy
1941-42 Wellsburg and Loman
1942-45 chaplain, US Army
1945- Lansing parish
Note:
J. Frank Holmes is the preferred designation.
HOLMES,
MERLE HOWARD
Born:
12-25-1881 Wilson NY married:
Laura Seager
Died:
7-9-1967 Lockport NY obit:
Western New York Conference 1968, 238
1920 license
1921 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference
1923 ordained deacon, Genesee Conference
ordained
elder
Interment:
Glenwood Cemetery, Lockport NY
Obit:
Western New York Conference 1968, 238
1920-22 South Dansville
1922-24 Cohocton
1924-26 Knoxville
1926-28 Troupsburg
1928-35 Springwater
1935-36 sabbatical
1936-38 Bristol Center
1938-44 Gaines
1944-47 Kanoma – Wheeler – Towlesville
1947 retired
HOLT,
WILLIAM BURNHAM
Born:
8-14-1830 married: Anna
Boslough
Died:
7-14-1892 Plumer PA obit: Erie
Conference 1897, 75
1858 admitted on trial, Wisconsin Conference
1861 ordained deacon, East Genesee Conference
ordained
elder, East Genesee Conference
Interment:
Greendale Cemetery, Meadeville PA
Obit:
Erie Conference 1892, 81
1858-59 Stevens Point
1859 transfer to East Genesee
Conference
1859-60 Dansville
1860-61 Troy
1861-62 Lawrenceville
1862-64 Fairville
1864-67 Rochester Corn Hill
1867-68 Penfield
1868-69 Trumansburg
1869-71 Adddison
1871 located
Decatur, Michigan
Conference
1872 readmitted to Michigan
Conference
1872 transfer to Detroit Conference
1872-74 Forrester
1874 transfer to Erie Conference
1874-76 LittleValley
1876-78 Sherman
1878-79 Youngsville First
1879-80 Mayville, Richardsville, Hazen amd
Munderf Ziom
1880-82 Perrysburg
1882-84 Busti and Farmington
1884-85 Luthersburg and Salem
1885-86 Mount Pleasant
1886-87 Emerickville and Meade Chapel
1887-88 Richardsville and Allen’s Mill
Neuman’s Chapel
1888-90 Monterey
1890-91 Saint Petersburg and Foxburg
1891-92 Plumer and Petroleum Center
HOUSE,
FREDERIC CLARENCE
Born:
4-18-1872 Jasper NY married:
Caroline Alette Manning
Died:
12-19-1937 Smethport PA obit: Genesee
Conference 1960, 190
1899 license to preach
1904 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference
1906 ordained deacon, Genesee Conference
ordained
elder, Genesee Conference
Interment:
Rural Cemetery, Horne;; NY
Obit:
Genesee Conference 1938, 568
1901-03 Towlesville
1903-06 Little
Marsh
1906-10 Prattsburg
1910-11 Ulysses
and Gold
HOWARD,
CHARLES JAMES
Born:
6-12-1882 Herkimer NY married: Clara
J. _____
Died:
2-5-1955 obit:
[1887 - ?]
married2:
Dorothy A. Bolton
1905 license to preach obit2: [10/28/1891 –
9/18/1955]
1908 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference
1910 ordained deacon, Genesee Conference
ordained
elder, Genesee Conference
Interment:
Searing-Roslyn UMC Cemetery, Roslyn NY
Obit:
New York Conference 1955, 219
1907-08 South Addison
1908-10 Gaines
1910-11 Tioga
and Farmington
HOWARD,
HERBERT WALTER
Born:
10-19-1857 Clinton NY married: Ida
Eleanor Hill
Died:
11-25-1931 East Bloomfield NY obit: Central New York
Conference 1944, 113
1877 license to preach, Canada
1879 admitted on trial, Montreal Conference
1884 ordained deacon, Northern New York
1886 ordained elder, Northern New York
Interment:
East Bloomfield Cemetery, East Bloomfield NY
Obit:
Central New York Conference 1932, 160
1879-80 Melbourne, Quebec
1880-81 Pittsburg, Ontario
1881-82 St. Lawrence NY
1882 transfer to Northern New York
Conference
1882-83 Lawrence
1883-84 Richville
1884-87 Alexandria Bay
1887-88 Antwerp
1888-91 DeKalb
1891-93 Fort Covington
1893-97 Vernon
1897-00 Earlville
1900-02 Newport
1902 transfer to Genesee Conference
1902-03 West Webster
1903-06 Bergen
1906-09 Rush
1909-10 on leave
1910-11 expelled, restored by Judicial Council
remanding the case for a new trial
1911-12 suspended
1912-14 on leave
1914 transfer to Central New York
Conference
1914-16 Elmira Pennsylvania Avenue
1916-18 Leona
and Wetona
1918-19 Mainesburg
1919-20 Breesport and North Chemung
1920-21 Big Flats
1921 retired
HOWE,
CHARLES LaFAYETTE
Born:
1824 MA married:
Mary E. _____
Died:
2-28-1883 Cazenovia NY obit:
[1824-1902]
1859 admitted on trial, East Genesee Conference
1861 ordained deacon, East Genesee Conference
ordained
elder, East Genesee Conference
Interment:
Evergreen Cemetery, Cazenovia NY
Obit:
Central New York Conference 1883, 130
1856-57 Litchfield, Wyoming Conference
1859-60 Ulster
1860-62 Knoxville
1862-63 Charleston
1863-65 Farmington
1865-66 Westfield
1866-68 Mainesburg
1868-70 Springfield
1870-72 Liberty
Corners and Asylum
1872 transfer to Central New York
Conference by change of boundaries
1874-76 East
Smithfield
HOWE,
EDWARD N.
Born:
11-7-1905 married:
Died:
4-29-2007 obit:
1932 admitted on trial, Central New York
Conference
1935 ordained deacon, Central New York Conference
ordained
elder
Interment:
Nondaga Cemetery, Bath NY
Obit:
1932-33 student
1933-34 assistant, Ludlowville, Lansingville,
Myers, North Lansing, Asbury and East Genoa
1934-37 Fleming and Half Acre
1937-41 Cicero
1941-44 New Hope and Kelloggsville
1944-47 Virgil
1947-53 East
Smithfield, Wetona and Big Pond
1953-58 Ledyard, West Genoa and Venice
Center
1958-62 Apulia and Onatavia
1962- Perryville
Note:
Edward N. Howe lived to be 101.
HUDSON,
ELISHA
Born:
c1814 RI married:
Jerusha Cool (8/9/1849)
Died:
11-9-1897 Genesee twp, Potter Co PA obit: [c1827 – 12/13/1851]
married
2: Ruth U. _____
1848 admitted on trial, East Genesee Conference obit2:
1850 ordained deacon, East Genesee Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1848-50 Ulysses
1850-51 Victor
1851 located
1870-71 Chatham
1871-72 Chatham
HUMPHREY,
JOHN
Born: 2-12-1872 London, England married: Mrs. Ella L. Phillips Pepper
(1939)
Died: 5-1-1949 obit:
[1/?/1885 – 2/2/1963]
1892 local
preacher’s license
1896 admitted
on trial, Wyoming Conference
1898 ordained
deacon, Wyoming Conference
1900 ordained
elder, Wyoming Conference
Interment: Bethel Methodist Cemetery, Lewes
DE
Obit:
1894-95 Carverton
1895-97 Noxen
1897-99 Moosic
1899-02 McClure Settlement
1902-03 “abroad”
1902-03 West
Sparta, Genesee Conference (last part of year)
1903 transfer to Genesee Conference
1903-04 West Sparta
1904-06 Kendall
1906-09 Kanona
1909-11 Elkland
and Osceola
Note:
Mrs. Humphrey (nee Phillips) was the widow of a Mr. Lee Pepper (1885-1919).
HUNT,
WILLIAM WARD
Born:
2-17-1846 Albion NY married:
Auzella [“Zella”] C. Rolison
Died:
8-31-1942 Syracuse NY obit: Central
New York Conference 1922, 456
married2:
Augusta Reynolds Smith [1924]
1869 admitted on trial, East Genesee Conference obit2: Central New York Conference 1939, 604
1871 ordained deacon, East Genesee Conference
ordained
elder, East Genesee Conference
Interment:
Onandaga Valley Cemetery, Syracuse NY
Obit:
Central New York Conference 1943, 106
1869-70 Delmar
1870-71 Monroeton
1871-72 Westfield
1872 transfer to Central New York
Conference by change of boundaries
1876 transfer to Genesee Conference
by change of boundaries
1877-78 Knoxville
1880 transfer to Central New York
Conference by change of boundaries
Note:
William W. Hunt is the son of Rev. Ward Wesley Hunt (1817-1889) and the nephew
of Rev. Isaac Lord Hunt (1808-1893), both of the Northern New York
Conference. The second Mrs. Hunt (nee Reynolds)
was the widow of Elmer Ellsworth Smith.
HUNTLEY,
ALEXANDER CHAUNCEY
Born:
12-29-1819 Canandaigua NY married: Agnes C.
Thompson
Died:
9-7-1885 Fon du Lac WI obit: Wisconsin
Conference 1893, 89
1845 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference
1847 ordained deacon, Genesee Conference
ordained
elder, East Genesee Conference
Interment:
Forest Home Cemetery, Milwaukee WI
Obit:
Wisconsin Conference 1885, 54
1848 charter member of East Genesee
Conference
1848-49 Troupsburg
1849-51 Columbia
1851-53 Millport
1853-55 Mecklenburg
1855-57 Southport
1857-58 Livonia
1858 transfer to Wisconsin Conference
HUTCHINGS,
GEORGE EDMUND
Born:
3-7-1855 Tully NY married: Flora Baldwin
Died:
11-25-1922 Chittenango NY obit: Central New
York Conference 1915, 138
1876 license to exhort
1877 license
1881 admitted on trial, Central New York
Conference
1881 ordained deacon, Central New York Conference
1885 ordained elder, Central New York
Interment:
Rose Cemetery, Rose NY
Obit:
Central New York Conference 1923, 642
1881-84 Mottville and Skaneateles Falls
1884-84 Georgetown
1885-86 faculty, Ives’ Seminary
1886 Towanda (June – Oct)
1886-91 Tyrone
1891- Newfield and Trumbull’s Corners
…
1904-08 Syracuse First Ward
…
Chittenango
Note:
Mrs. Hutchings is the daughter of Rev. Charles Baldwin (1831-1879) of the
Central New York Conference.
HUTCHINS,
JOHN
Born:
8-29-1813 Newark NY married:
Harriett Birdsey
Died:
12-6-1872 Horseheads NY obit: Central New
York Conference 1899, 104
1852 admitted on trial, East Genesee Conference
1854 ordained deacon, East Genesee Conference
ordained
elder, East Genesee Conference
Interment:
Obit:
Central New York Conference 1873, 75
1852-53 Loyalsock
1853-54 Ulster
1854-56 Springfield
1856-57 South Sodus
1857-59 Jackson
1859-60 Chemung
1860-61 Big Flats
1861 retired
1872
transfer to Central New York Conference by change of boundaries
Note:
Before entering the ministry, John Hutchins appears in the census records as a
farmer living in Junius NY.
HUYETT,
PAUL HARLAN
Born:
1-7-1907 Birdsboro PA married: Mary
Jane Randolph
Died:
5-29-1991 Amherst NY obit: Genesee
Conference 1947, 731
married2:
Thelma Jane Ellison [1947]
1928 license obit2:
[9/30/1920 – 11/23/2011]
1927 admitted on trial, Kentucky Conference of
the Methodist Episcopal Church South
1931 ordained deacon, Genesee Conference
ordained
elder
Interment:
East Bloomfield Cemetery, East Bloomfield NY
Obit:
Western New York Conference 1991, 369
1928-30 Woodford
1930 Round
Top and Coolidge Hollow, Genesee Conference (part year)
1930-31 Nelson,
Genesee
Conference
1931 transfer to Genesee Conference
1931-34 Knowlesville and Eagle Harbor
1934-36 Jasper
1936-37 Fremont – Big Creek – South Fansville
1937-42 Walworth
1939-42 North
Ontario
1942-48 East Bloomfield – Allens Hill
1948-51 Barker
1951-58 Tonawanda
1951-56 Pendleton
Center
1958-61 Bath
1961-64 Greece
1964- Wilson
Note:
Paul H. Huyett is a brother to J. Dorothy Klingler, wife of David R.
Klingler. In 1996, the widowed second
Mrs. Huyett married a Mr. F. Leslie Keyse.
HYDE,
IRA BENJAMIN
Born:
2-23-1830 Groton NY married:
Cornelia Main
Died:
3-6-1908 Red Creek NY obit: Central
New York Conference 1904, 118
1848 license to exhort
1852 license
1853 admitted on trial, Oneida Conference
1855 ordained deacon, Oneida Conference
1857 ordained elder, Oneida Conference
Interment:
McLean Cemetery, McLean NY
Obit:
Central New York 1908, 150
1853-54 McLean
1854-55 Union Valley
1855-56 Cuyler
1856-57 Pitcher
1857-59 Virgil
1859-61 McGrawville
1861-63 Moravia
1863-65 Asbury
1865-68 Green
1868 transfer to Wyoming Conference
by change of boundaries
1868-71 Sherburne
1871-73 Guilford
1873074 Hyde Park
1874-75 Moscow
1875 transfer to Central New York
Conference
1875-77 Mecklenburg
1877-80 Chemung
1880-82 Burdett
1882-85 Potter
1885-88 Gorham
1888-91 Catherine and Odessa
1891- East Smithfield and Big Pond
East Troy and West
Burlington
Millport and Pine
Valley
retired
Note: Ira B. Hyde is the father of Hallet E. Hyde (1862-1928) of
the Central New York Conference.
HYDE,
JOHN EMORY
Born:
9-29-1829 Oxford NY married:
Martha Jane Failing
Died:
10-5-1865 Canandaigua NY obit: [1837 –
9/13/1865]
1852 admitted on trial, East Genesee Conference
1854 ordained deacon, East Genesee Conference
ordained
elder, East Genesee Conference
Interment:
West Avenue Cemetery, Canandaigua NY
Obit:
East Genesee Conference 1866, 19
1852-63 Townsendville and Covert
1853-54 Bellona and Dresden
1854-55 East Palmyra
1855-56 Middlesex
1856-57 Manchester
1857-58 Fairville
1858-59 Bellona
1859-60 Horseheads
1860-61 Chemung
1861-62 Canton
1862-61 Chapinville
1853-64 Manchester and Chapinville
1864 retired
[on leave?]
IRONS,
JOHN BUTLIN
Born:
6-10-1846 Sheffield, England married: Lucy Casterton
Died:
4-7-1925 Leicester NY obit:
Genesee Conference 1883, 107
married2:
Julia Emily Wixom
1866 license to preach obit2: Genesee
Conference 1919, 141
1871 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference married3: Mts. Anna Thorpe Way
[8/11/1920]
1875 ordained deacon, Genesee Conference obit3: Genesee Conference 1925, 371
ordained
elder, Genesee Conference
Interment:
Temple Hill Cemetery, Genesco NY
Obit:
Genesee Conference 1925, 365
1871-72 Moscow and Greigsville
1872-73 Sardinia and Arcade
1873-74 Lakeside and Lincoln
1874-75 Lakeside and Ontario
1875-78 Stafford
1878-79 Fremont
1879-80 Collins and Concord
1880-83 Bristol
1883-86 Pulteney
1886-87 Knoxville
1887-88 Leetonia
1888 retired
Note:
The third Mrs. Irons (nee Thorpe) was the widow of a Mr. James Way (1838-1892).
JAQUES,
JABEZ ROBERT
Born:
12-8-1828 Strowerton, England married: Harriet C. Lyon
[1855]
Died:
3-22-1892 Abingdon IL obit: [1830/1
– 4/16/1900]
married2:
H.M. _____
1855 admitted on trial, East Genesee Conference obit2:
1857 ordained deacon, East Genesee Conference
ordained
elder, East Genesee Conference
Interment:
Abingdon Cemetery, Abingdon IL
Obit:
Central Illinois Conference 1892, 70
1855-56 Jasper
1856-57 Mansfield
1857-59 Elmira First
1859-60 Hornellsville
1860-62 Rochester First
1862-65 faculty, Rochester Collegiate
Institute
1865-66 faculty, Illinois Wesleyan University
1866 transfer to Central Illinois
Conference
1866-75 faculty, Illinois Wesley University
1875 located
1875-85 president, Methodism’s Albert College
in Belleville, Ontario, Canada
1885-86 “pastorate in New York City”
1886-88 president, Hedding College in
Abingdon IL
1888 transfer to Central Illinois
Conference on credential from Methodist Church of Canada
1888- president, Hedding College in
Abingdon IL
Note:
In 1856, Jabez R. Jaques was hired to be the first principal of Methodism’s
Mansfield Classical Seminary, and his wife Harriet was hired to be the
preceptress. Then met and married while
he was principal and she was preceptress at Troupsburg Academy. The first Mrs. Jaques as a noted force in the
Woman’s Missionary Society in Canada, and he story is well-told in Marilyn
Fardig Whiteley’s 2005 Canadian Methodist
Women, 1766-1925, pages 147-148
JARMAN,
JOHN OLIVER
Born:
6-6-1844 Penegoes, Wales married: Mrs.
Kezia Smith Horton
Died:
5-1-1915 East Bloomfield NY obit: Genesee Conference
1897, 123
married2:
Mrs. Adda M. Horton Brown [1897]
1868 license to preach obit2: [1861-1944]
1875 admitted on trial, Central New York
Conference
1877 ordained deacon, Genesee Conference
ordained
elder, Genesee Conference
Interment:
Lakeview Cemetery, Penn Yan NY
Obit:
Genesee Conference 1915, 126
1874-75 Elbridge
1875-76 Barrington
1876 transfer to Genesee Conference
by change of boundaries
1876-77 Monterey
1877-79 Portage and Wiscoy
1879-81 Knoxville
1881-84 Wheeler
1884-87 Savona and Sonora
1887-91 Osceola
1891-93 Castile
1893-95 Royalton
1895-97 Eden and North Evans
1897-99 Pulteney
1899-05 Campbell
1905-10 Hilton
1910-11 Millville
Note:
The first Mrs. Jarman (nee Smith) was the widow of a Mr. George Romain Horton
(1848-1878). The second Mrs. Jarman (nee
Horton) was the widow of a Mr. Cornelius Brown.
JENKINS,
C.S.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Genesee Conference
Interment:
Obit:
Genesee Conference
1903-05 Gaines
1906-09 Nelson
1918-21 Central Lake, Michigan Conference
Note:
C.S. Jenkins served as a supply preacher.
He is otherwise unknown.
JERVIS,
KASIMIR PULASKI
Born:
1-9-1825 Utica NY married: Martha Hotchkiss
Long [1853]
Died:
5-23-1891 Nunda NY obit:
Genesee Conference 1899, 133
license,
Genesee Conference
1852 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference
1854 ordained deacon, Genesee Conference
ordained
elder
Interment:
Mount Hope Cemetery, Rochester NY
Obit:
Genesee Conference 1891, 137
1872 transfer to East Genesee
Conference by change of boundaries
1876 transfer to Genesee Conference
by change of boundaries
1887-90 Coudersport
Note:
A brief biography of Kasimir P. Jervis appears in Simpson’s 1878 Cyclopedia of Methodism, page 498.
JOHNSON,
FRANK AUSTIN
Born:
11-7-1868 Ulysses PA married:
Janette Tibbs [8/20/1891]
Died:
11-26-1916 Scio NY obit:
Genesee Conference 1950, 562
1892 license to preach
1901 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference
1904 ordained deacon, Genesee Conference
ordained
elder, Genesee Conference
Interment:
Knights Cemetery, Scio NY
Obit:
Genesee Conference 1917, 125
1893-95 Ellicottville
1895-96 Custer City
1896-97 Otto
1897-99 Bristol Center
1899-01 ?
1901-03 Little Marsh
1903-05 Oswayo
1905-07 Allegany
1907-11 Rushford
Note:
The birth year for Mrs. Johnson, not given in her conference obituary, is 1856.
JOHNSON,
MABEL E. BARKER
Born:
11-11-1890 Independence NY married: Reuben H.
Johnson
Died:
1-17-1976 Wellsboro PA obit: [1876 –
1949]
1918 license
ordained deacon
ordained elder
Interment:
Whitesville Rural Cemetery, Whitesville NY
Obit:
Western New York Conference 1977, 275
1915-16 student, Folts Missionary Training
Institute in Herkimer NY
1916-18 home missionary, Rochester NY Italian
work
1918-21 Osceola
–
Pleasant Valley – Norway Ridge
1921-26 Woodhull - Rathbone
1926-28 Nelson
– Tompkins
1928-32 Keeneyville
– Niles Valley - Middlebury
1932-36 Kanona – Wheeler – Towlesville
1936-40 Jasper – North Jasper
1940-46 Belmont
1946-51 Lawrenceville
– Tioga Junction
1951-55 Galeton
1955-56 Alabama-Basom
1956
retired to Lawrenceville
Note:
Mrs. Mabel (Barker) Johnson served as a local pastor until 1936. She married in 1929, and served as Mabel
Barker prior to that. The 1918-21
Pleasant Valley and Norway Ridge appointments were in New York state. She was the first woman in the Genesee Conference
to be ordained Deacon and Elder.
JOLLY,
THOMPSON
Born:
8-5-1822 Yorkshire, England married: Mercy Gates
Died:
12-28-1902 Sodus NY obit:
[2/2/1824 – 10/4/1892]
1857 admitted on trial, East Genesee Conference
1859 ordained deacon, East Genesee Conference
ordained
elder, East Genesee Conference
Interment:
Sodus Rural Cemetery, Sodus NY
Obit:
Central New York Conference 1903, 117
1857-58 Brookfield,
Westfield and Harrison
1858-60 Andover
1860-62 Wayland
1862-64 South Dansbury
1864-65 Prattsburg
1865-67 Middlesex
1867-69 Junius
1869-70 South Sodus
1870-72 Fairville
1872 transfer to Central New York
Conference by change of boundaries
1872-73 Chapinville and Manchester
1873-75 Burdett and Reynoldsville
1875-76 North Hector
1876-77 North Chemung
1877 transfer to Genesee Conference
1877-78 Daggett’s
and Webb’s Mills
1879-80 Wheeler
1880-82 Hemlock Lake
1882-84 Lakeside
1884 transfer to Central New York
Conference
1884 retired
Note:
An obituary for Mrs. Jolly appears in the 11/23/1892 Northern Christian Advocate, page 375, column 4.
JONES,
ALVAH RIDGEWAY
Born:
1818 Philadelphia PA married:
Mrs. Martha Brooke Crawford [1846]
Died:
3-20-1894 Philadelphia PA obit: [1818 –
12/2/1898]
1849 admitted on trial, East Genesee Conference
Interment:
Mount Peace Cemetery, Philadelphia PA
Obit:
1849-50 Urbana
1850 discontinued
1855 readmitted
1855-56 Laporte
1856 discontinued
“transfer” to Wyoming
Conference
1858-60 LeRaysville
1860-61 Salem
1861-62 Cherry Ridge
1862-64 ?
1864-65 chaplain, US Army
Note:
Alvah R. Jones served as a chaplain in the Union Army 4/16/1865 to
5/19/1865. It appears that Mrs. Jones
(nee Brooke) was the widow of a Mr. Crawford.
Alvah and Martha had a son Francis who was born in 1859 in LaRaysville
PA (and died 12/24/1865 in Philadelphia)
http://www.americancivilwar.asn.au/news/news_94_june19.pdf reports the following:
“Chaplain Alvah R Jones, a Methodist minister attached to the 10th US Coloured
Troops, was charged with Conduct Unbecoming. Kept aloof from the enlisted men,
he stated “I did not come here to mingle with niggers, or go into their dirty,
lousy tents’’. He also failed to stop a
noisy religious meeting. Also charged with cowardice at Wilson’s Landing,
Virginia. Found guilty he was dismissed from the service.”
A more complete treatment is given in
the book “US Colored Troops Defeat Confederate Calvary” by Edwin W. Besch,
beginning on page 75. That passage
describes Alvah R. Jones in 1864 as being a “regularly ordained minister of the
M.E. Church at Honesdale, Pennsylvania” – but he was not the pastor appointed
to Honesdale that year.
JONES,
ELMER ETHERINGTON
Born:
10-11-1871 Philadelphia PA married: Nina Mary
Matson
Died:
3-16-1944 Perry NY obit:
Genesee Conference 1956, 157
1893 license to preach
1900 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference
1902 ordained deacon, Genesee Conference
ordained
elder, Genesee Conference
Interment:
Glenwood Cemetery, Perry NY
Obit:
Genesee Conference 1944, 113
1896-97 Lawrenceville
1899-01 assistant, Naples (starting last six
months 1899-00)
1901-02 Delmar
1902-04 Scottsburg and Sparta
1904-08
North Cohocton
1908-13 Walworth
1913-15 Oakfield
1915-18 Newfane
1918-21 Buffalo Woodside
1921-25 Perry
1925-33 Albion
1933-35 Fairport
1935-38 North Chili – Churchville
1938- Rush
JONES,
GEORGE CHAPMAN SR.
Born:
8-19-1845 Belfast, Ireland married: Eliza
“Lizzie” Anne Jameson
Died:
1-28-1934 Hornell NY obit: Genesee
Conference 1912, 148
1869 license to preach
1871 admitted on trial, East Genesee Conference
1873 ordained deacon, Central New York Conference
ordained
elder, Central New York Conference
Interment:
Rural Cemetery, Hornell NY
Obit:
Genesee Conference 1934, 537
1871-72 Williamson
1872 transfer to Central New York
Conference by change of boundaries
1872-73 Williamson
1873-75 Osceola
1875-76 Mansfield
1876 transfer to Genesee Conference
by change of boundaries
1876-77 Mansfield
1877-79 Towanda
1879-82 Rochester First
1882-84 Buffalo Asbury
1884-85 Medina
1885-89 Bradford
1889-93 Rochester Asbury
1893 transfer to Pittsburgh
Conference
1893-97 Pittsburg Oakland
1897-01 Crafton
1901 transfer to Genesee Conference
1901-02 North Tonawanda
1902-08 Hornell Park
1908-11 superintendent, Corning District
Note:
George C. Jones is the son of Rev. Robert G. Jones of the Wesleyan Church of
Ireland.
JONES,
JOHN LLOYD
Born:
1839 married:
Mary Rosalia Phillips
Died:
9-12-1924 obit:
Central New York Conference 1915, 143
1860 license to exhort, North Wales
1860 license, North Wales
1875 admitted on trial, Central New York
Conference
1876 ordained deacon, Central New York Conference
1879 ordained elder, Central New York Conference
Interment:
Onondaga Valley Cemetery, Syracuse NY
Obit:
Central New York Conference 1924, 155
1875-76 Peterboro
1876-78 Union Valley
1878-81 Perryville
1881-83 Monroeton
1883 transfer to Nevada Conference
1883-84 Eureka
1884 transfer to Central New York
Conference
1884-85 Leona
1885-87 Chapinville and Manchester
1887-90 Onondaga Valley
1890-91 Lysander
1891 retired
JORALEMON,
PETER MARION
Born:
4-17-1840 Coolbaugh PA married: Helen
Ford David (12/25/1860)
Died:
11-26-1893 DeWitt NY obit:
[6/17/1839 – 3/4/1899]
1871 license to exhort, Wyalusing
1874 license
1879 ordained local deacon
1881 admitted on trial, Central New York
Conference
1885 ordained elder, Central New York Conference
Interment:
Wayne Village Cemetery, Wayne Village NY
Obit:
1875-76 Harrison
Valley
1876-78 Gaines
1878-80 Delmar
1880-82 East
Troy and Columbia
1882-84 Forksville
1884-86 Monterey
1886-89 Wayne and Barrington
1889-91 South Sodus
1891-92 Fairville
1892 retired for health reasons
Note:
Mrs. Joralemon died at the home of her daughter in East Troy and is buried in
the Oak Hill Cemetery, Troy PA
KEHLER,
WESLEY WILLIAM
Born:
9-25-1897 Valley View [Schuylkill Co] PA married: Mary Kathryn Chilson
Died:
6-29-1975 Hillsgrove PA obit: Central
New York Conference 1985, 230
1923 admitted on trial, Central New York
Conference
1925 ordained deacon, Central New York Conference
ordained
elder
Interment:
Fairmount Cemetery, Forksville PA
Obit:
Central New York Conference 1976, 186
1923-24 Liberty
Corners and Asylum
1924-27 Daggett
1927-29 Caton
1929-33 Bethel and Ira
1933-37 Montezuma, Fosterville and Mentz
1937-39 Dryden
1939-47 Auburn Wall Street
1947-48 Groton
1948- Big Flats and Catlin
KELLER,
GUSTAVE PAUL
Born:
11-14-1905 Buffalo NY married:
Adelaide Lenora [Heidi] Crow
Died:
12-25-1990 Anaheim CA obit:
California-Pacific Conference 1994, H-25
1925 license, Genesee Conference
1928 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference
1930 ordained deacon, Genesee Conference
ordained
elder
Interment:
Anaheim Cemetery, Anaheim CA
Obit:
California-Pacific Conference 1991, H-3
1923-24 Evans Center (part year)
Lackawanna and Armor
(part year)
1925-28 superintendent, Interdenominational
Mission at Nicholasville KY
1928-30 Cameron
1930-35 Savona – Campbell
1935-38 Buffalo Ripley Memorial
1938-41 Bradford Asbury – Custer City
1941-44 Coudersport
and Sweden Valley (ending
1/8/1941)
1944 chaplain, U.S. Navy
1966 transfer to Southern California
Conference
1977 transfer to Pacific Southwest
Conference
1985 transfer to California-Pacific
Conference
Note:
G. Paul Keller is the preferred usage.
KENRICK,
HAROLD EMILE
Born:
1897 married:
Dorothy Marie Baker
Died:
9-10-1968 obit:
Western New York Conference 1989, 346
1921 license, Genesee Conference
1926 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference
1928 ordained deacon, Genesee Conference
ordained
elder
Interment:
Northlawn Cemetery, North Adams MI
Obit:
Western New York Conference 1969, 240
1925-30 Savona
1930-31 Clarence
1931-32 Addson
1932-35 Sanborn – Pekin
1935-36 Lawrenceville
1936-37 Tioga
– Lamb’s Creek
1937-41 Silver Springs
1941-43 Elma
1943-45 Machias – West Valley
1945-47 Salamanca – Killbuck
1947-49 Lockport Clinton Street – Quaker Road
1949-50 on leave
1950-51 Kendall – Kendall Mills
1951-54 on leave
1954 retired
KEPLER,
WILLIAM McKINLEY
Born:
4-6-1897 Shintown PA married:
Edith M. Stephenson
Died:
4-27-1977 obit:
1919 license, recommended by Shintown
1924 admitted
on trial
1926 ordained deacon
1928 ordained elder
Interment: Lakeside Cemetery, Erie PA
Obit:
Central Pennsylvania Conference 1977, 260
1922-24 Pleasant
Gap
1924-26 Morris
1924-25 Coolidge Hollow, Genesee Conference
1926-27 Orangeville
(ending 9/1/27)
1927-30 Montandon
and Hendrickson (beginning 9/1/27)
1930 Elimsport-Allenwood (3 months)
1930-31 student,
Drew University
1931-35 Bakerton
1935-39 Newton
Hamilton
1939-45 Houtzdale
1945-47 Saxton
1947-49 Williamsport
Grace (beginning 8/1/47)
1949-53 Centralia-Helfenstein
1953-57 Berwick
Calvary
1957-62 Watsontown
1962 retired
1962-73
associate, Erie Lawrence Park
Note:
William McKinley Kepler is a brother to James H. Kepler (1912-1987) of The
Central Pennsylvania Conference.
KING,
JOHN LAWRENCE
Born:
5-21-1842 Bethel DE married:
Ophelia Celeste Horton
Died:
7-2-1910 Hillsnille PA obit:
Genesee Conference
1866 license to preach
1867 admitted on trial, Philadelphia Conference
1873 ordained deacon, Genesee Conference
ordained
elder, Genesee Conference
Interment:
Druid Ridge Cemetery, Pikesville MD
Obit:
Genesee Conference
1867-68 Newtown
1868-69 Attleborough and Mooresville
1869 discontinued
1870-71 Centerville,
Genesee Conference
1871 “transfer” to Genesee Conference
1871-72 Sardinia and Arcade
1872 transfer to Central New York
Conference by change of boundaries
1872-73 Fowlerville
1873-74 Dalton
1874-75 Nundia
1875-76 North Cohocton
1876 transfer to Genesee Conference
by change of boundaries
1876-79
Allen’s Hill
1879-80 Middlesex
1880 transfer to Central New York
Conference by change of boundaries
1880-82 Smithfield
1882-83 Mainesburg
1883-85 Stockbridge
1885-87 Lysander
1887-88 Varna
1888-90 Townsendville
1890 transfer to Genesee Conference
1890-91 Centerville and Eagle
1891-92 Youngstown, Porter Center and
Fillmore
1892-95 Woodhull
1895-97 Wheeler
1897-98 Collins Center and Morton’s Corners
1898 retired
KLINGLER,
DAVID ROOSEVELT
Born:
12-7-1903 Lewisburg PA married: Jennie
Dorothy Huyett (10/27/1828)
Died:
3-17-1997 Amarillo TX obit:
Southwest Texas Conference 1978, 205
1926 license
1927 admitted on trial, Kentucky Conference
1929 ordained deacon, Kentucky Conference
ordained
elder
Interment:
Garden of Memories Cemetery, Kerrville TX
Obit:
1928-29 Combs
1929-31 Roberts Chapel
1931-32 Grand Switch
1932-34 Port Royal
1934-35 Millville – East Shelby, Genesee
Conference
1935 transfer to Genesss Conference
1935-38 Millville – East Shelby
1938-41 Brockport
1941-44 Holley – Claredon
1944-47 Elkland
– Osceola
1947-53 Derrick City – Limestone
1953- Clarence
Note:
Mrs. Klingler is a sister to Paul H. Huyett.
KNAPP,
JOHN
Born:
4-1-1817 Welles VT married:
Sarah Ann Rotch [1843]
Died:
8-3-1912 Prattsburg NY obit: [? –
1846]
married2:
Mrs. Amelia Ida Cole Ainsworth [1847]
1843 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference obit2: [5/4/1827 – 3/11/1902]
1846 ordained deacon, Genesee Conference
ordained
elder, East Genesee Conference
Interment:
Prattsburg Rural Cemetery, Prattsburg NY
Obit:
Genesee Conference 1912, 137
1843-44 Somerset
1844-45 Darien
1845-47 Roanoke
1847-48 Hornellsville
1848 charter member of East Genesee
Conference
1848-49 Hornellsville
1849-50
on leave
1850 located
…
1852 readmitted to East Genesee
Conference
1852-53 Kennedyville
1853-54 Middlesex
1854-56 Cohocton
1856-57 on leave
1867-57 Italy
Hollow
1857-58 Harmonyville
1858-60 Rogersville
1860-61 Conesus
1861-62 Savona
1862-63 Branchport
1863-64 Italy Hollow
1864-65 Hammondsport
1865-75 retired [on leave?]
1872 transfer to Central New York
Conference by change of boundaries
1872-75 retired [on leave?]
1875-76 Prattsburg
1876 transfer to Genesee Conference
by change of boundaries
1876-78 Campbell
1878-80 Woodhull
1880-81 Westfield
1881-83 Knoxville
1883-84 Hammondsport
1884-86 Bradford NY
1886-89 Pulteney
1889 retired
Note:
The second Mrs. Knapp (nee Cole) was the widow of a Mr. Dewitt Clinton
Ainsworth (1826-1847).
KNAPP,
WILLIAM H.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1852 admitted on trial, East Genesee Conference
1854 ordained deacon, East Genesee Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1852-53 Southport
1853-54 Tioga
1854-56 Troy
1856 located
KYMER,
MILTON SHEPARD
Born:
1-30-1838 Tyrone NY married:
Fannie F. Updike
Died:
7-26-1912 Mount Jewett PA obit: [5/28/1841 –
3/6/1863]
married2:
Harriet S. McCoy
1865 admitted on trial, East Genesee Conference obit2: Central New York Conference
1867 ordained deacon, East Genesee Conference
1869 ordained elder, East Genesee Conference
Interment:
Oak Hill Cemetery, Troy PA
Obit:
Central New York Conference 1912, 168
1865-67 Dushore
1867-69 Blossburg
1869-71 Tioga
and Lawrenceville
1871-72 Catherine
1872 transfer to Central New York
Conference by change of boundaries
1872-73 Sheldrake
1873-75 Locke
1875-76 Liberty
Corners and Asylum
1876 transfer to Genesee Conference
by change of boundaries
1876-78 Liberty
Corners and Asylum
1878-80 East
Charleston
1880 transfer to Central New York
Conference by change of boundaries
1880-82 East
Canton
1882-84 Ulster
1884 retired
LAMKIN,
HARVEY
Born:
11-18-1812 Ulysses NY married:
Mary Anne Fritz
Died:
2-24-1896 Covington PA obit:
Genesee Conference 1891, 140
1852 admitted on trial, East Genesee Conference
1854 ordained deacon, East Genesee Conference
ordained
elder, East Genesee Conference
Interment:
Gray Cemetery, Covington PA
Obit:
Genesee Conference 1896, 128
1852-54 Canton
1854-55 Millport
1855-57 Catherine
1857-59 Chemung
1859-60 Smithfield
1860-62 Burlington
1862-65 Springfield
1865-68 Mansfield
1868-70 Chemung
1870-72 Blossburg
1872 transfer to Central New York Conference
by change of boundaries
1876 transfer to Genesee Conference
by change of boundaries
Note:
An obituary for the infant child of Harvey Lamkin appears in the Central New
York Conference 1875, 93.
LATHAM,
JOSEPH
Born:
12/12/1819 Bergen NY married:
Lydia R. Nelson
Died:
10/10/1895 Franklinville obit: Genesee
Conference 1903, 153
1848 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference
1850 ordained deacon, Genesee Conference
ordained
elder
Interment:
Obit:
[Genesee Conference 1896, 121]
1850-51 Coudersport
1856-57 Sweden NY
LATIMER,
EBENEZER HERMAN
Born:
4-10-1842 Pike NY married: Elsie R. Holbrook
Died:
1-4-1925 Albany NY obit:
Genesee Conference 1929, 317
1870 admitted on trial, East Genesee Conference
1873 ordained deacon, Genesee Conference
ordained
elder, Genesee Conference
Interment:
Albany Rural Cemetery, Menands NY
Obit:
Genesee Conference
1870-72 principal, Haverling Free Academy in
Bath NY
1872 transfer to Genesee Conference
by change of boundaries
1872-73 principal, Haverling Free Academy in
Bath NY
1873-76 Macedon and Perinton
1876-77 Churchville
1877-79 Buffalo Riverside
1879-82 Wellsboro
1882-85 Albion
1885-87 Lima
1887-90 Hornellsville Park
1890-92 Rochester Corn Hill
1892-98 superintendent, Olean District
1898-04 superintendent, Genesee District
1904-08 North Tonawanda
Note:
Ebenezer Herman Latimer is the son of Rev. Ebenezer Latimer (1798-1886) of the
Genesee Conference,
LEACH,
JAMES H.
Born:
1831 NY married:
Loretta J. Kruzen
Died:
1898 Potter County PA obit:
[7/27/1828 – 1900]
Interment:
Chrystal Cemetery, Chrystal PA
Obit:
1888-92 Genesee
Forks
1892-93 Chrystal
Note:
James H. Leach is the father of John M. Leach.
He served as a local preacher.
LEACH,
JOHN MELVIN
Born:
8-21-1855 Oswayo PA married:
Florence R. Farnham
Died:
3-28-1932 Ceres NY obit:
Genesee Conference 1943, 653
1875 license to preach
1878 admitted on trial, Methodist Protestant
Church
ordained
deacon
ordained
elder
Interment:
Ceres Cemetery, McKean County PA
Obit:
Genesee Conference 1932, 112
1878-80 Nunda
1880-81 Brooksgrove
1881-83 Greece
1883-84 Westfield
1884-85 on leave
1885-86 Annin Creek and Turtle Point, Genesee
Conference
1886 transfer to Genesee Conference
of the Methodist Episcopal Church
1886-87 Annin Creek and Turtle Point
1887-90 Honeoye
1890-91 Colegrove and Clermont
1891-93 Hinsdale Ischua
1893-95 Andover
1895-97 Duke Center and Rixford
1897-00 Spencerport
1900-02 Cuba and Haskell
1902-04 Harrison
Valley
1904-06 Stannards and Shongo
1906-08 Belmont
1908-10 Machias and McKinstry
1910-11 Ceres and Horse Run
Note:
John M. Leach is the son of James H. Leach and the father of Rev. William H.
Leach, affiliation unknown Mrs. Leach is the daughter of Rev. William Hosmer
Farnham (1854-1929) and the granddaughter of Rev. William H. Farnham, both
reportedly local preachers in the Genesee Conference.
LEFFLER,
JOHN FORD
Born:
9-28-1867 Shelbyville IN married: Lena
May Compton
Died:
12-21-1945 Niagara Falls NY obit: Genesee
Conference 1940, 90
1896 license to preach
1898 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference
1900 ordained deacon, Genesee Conference
1902 ordained elder, Genesee Conference
Interment:
North Ridge Cemetery, North Ridge NY
Obit:
Genesee Conference 1946, 522
1896-98 Allegany
1898-02 Cambria
1902-06 Niagara Falls St. James
1906-10 Attica
1910-16 Coudersport
1916-20 Buffalo Normal Park
1920-26 LeRoy
1926-32 superintendent, Olean District
1932-39 Niagara Falls St. James
1939- Wilson
Note:
John F. Leffler is the grandson of early Ohio circuit rider Rev. William Parish
(1801-1847) and the nephew of Rev. Nathaniel C. Parrish (1834-1875) of the
Cincinnati Conference.
LEGGETT,
OTIS M.
Born:
1819 Rowe MA married: Rosette M.
Litchfield
Died:
2-25-1889 Machias NY obit: Genesee
Conference 1882, 105
Married2:
Lizzie Reed [1885]
1842
admitted on trial, New Hampshire Conf obit2:
ordained
deacon
ordained
elder
Interment:
Obit:
Genesee Conference 1889, 126
1842-43 Perkinsville VT
1843-44 Waitsfield VT
1844-45 Plainfirld VT
1845-46 Middlesex VT
1846-47 Turnbridge VT
1847-49 Rochester VT
1849-51 Chelsea
1851 transfer to Black River
Conference
1851-53 Potsdam
1853-54 Fulton
1854-56 Camden
1856-58 West Oswego
1858-60 East Oswego
1860-62 Mexico
1862-64 Carthage
1864-70 local preacher, New School
Presbyterian Church
1870 re-admitted to Black River
Conference
1870 transferred to Genesee
Conference
1870-72 Cuba
1872-75 Coudersport
1875-76 Friendship
1876-78 Rushford
1878-81 Portville
1881-83 Ftanklinville
1883- Belfast and Caneadea
Machias
1887 retired
Note:
Mrs. Leggett was born in Vermont in 1832 and is buried in Hartsburg MO. Their son graduated from the University of
Missouri in 1883.
LEISENRING,
DANIEL
Born:
5-28-1821 Varick NY married:
Phebe W. _____
Died:
3-14-1896 Rochester NY obit: Genesee
Conference 1879, 72
1849 admitted on trial, East Genesee Conference
1851 ordained deacon, East Genesee Conference
ordained
elder, East Genesee Conference
Interment:
Mount Hope Cemetery, Rochester NY
Obit:
Genesee Conference 1896, 130
1849-50 Wellsburg
1850-51 Springfield
1851-53 Burlington
1853-55 Southport
1855-57 Millport
1857-58 Milo Center
1858-60 Sodus
1860-61 Branchport
1861-62 Clifton Springs
1862-64 Benton Center
1864-66 Naples
1866-69 Rochester North Avenue
1869-71 Watkins
1871-72 Dansville
1872 transfer to Western New York
Conference by change of boundaries
1876 transfer to Genesee Conference
by change of boundaries
LEWIEN,
JOSEPH DANIEL
Born:
7-28-1911 Clay Center NE married: Elizabeth
Jane Blair
Died:
7-25-2002 Minoa NY obit:
[10/1/1913 – 9/25/1985]
married
2: Catherine _____
1937 admitted on trial, Nebraska Conference obit2:
1940 ordained deacon, Central New York Conference
ordained
elder
Interment:
Obit:
1937-38 Unadilla, Central NY Conference
1938-39 Lewiston and Filley, Central NY
Conference
1939 transfer to Central New York
Conference
1939-40 Liberty
Corners, Asylum, Terrytown, Hollenback and Norway Ridge
1940-42 Manchester and Shortsville
1942-44 Clifton Springs
1944- Victory, Bethel and Ira
“transfer” to
Presbyterian Church
Buffalo
Port Henry
Hamden
Note:
Joseph D. Lewien is related to first cousins Charles Fred Lewien (1888-1953) of
the Nebraska Conference of the EUB Church and John W. Lewien (1905-1996) of the
North Central New York Conference of the Methodist Church – but the exact
relationship is not known.
LIBBY,
IRA KIMBALL
Born:
5-21-1852 Ossian NY married:
Mary Estelle Wallace
Died:
11-10-1920 Rochester NY obit: Genesee
Conference 1920, 106
1879 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference
1881 ordained deacon, Genesee Conference
ordained
elder, Genesee Conference
Interment:
Hope Cemetery, Perry NY
Obit:
Genesee Conference 1921, 278
1879-81 Fremont
1881-83 West Almond
1883-85 South Addison
1885-88 Cameron
1888-91 Prattsburg
1891-95 Osceola
and Elkland
1895-96 Wayland
1896-99 Hornellsville East Avenue
1899-01 Prattsburg
1901-04 Painted Post
1904-07 Hammondsport
1907-08 Westfield
1908-09 Cohocton
1909-11 Painted Post
LIVINGSTON,
OLIVER PERRY
Born:
1820 married:
Died:
10-6-1893 obit:
Interment:
Johnson Hollow Cemetery
Obit:
1868-71 Chatham
1871-72 Delmar
1875-77 Chatham
Note:
Oliver P. Livingston served as a supply pastor.
The Central New York Conference journals list him as a local deacon
living in Millport NY. As his will
leaves his estate to nieces, nephews and the Methodist Episcopal Church, it
appears he was not married and/or had no direct descendants.
LLOYD,
SYLVESTER WILDER
Born:
1-31-1837 Sandy Lake PA married: Mary
Conrad Dunn
Died:
12-5-1926 Los Angeles CA obit: Genesee
Conference 1911, 153
1858 admitted on trial, Kansas and Nebraska
Conference
1860 ordained deacon, Genesee Conference
1864 ordained elder, Genesee Conference
Interment:
Forest Lawn Cemetery, Buffalo NY
Obit:
Genesee Conference 1927, 795
1858-59 Emporium
1859-60 Minneola
1860-61 Spring Hill
1861-62 Canon City CO
1862-63 South Park CO
1863-65 Doniphan
1865 transfer to Erie Conference
1865-66 Edinboro
1866-68 Springfield
1868 transfer to Kansas Conference
1868-69 ?
1869-72 Junction City
1872-75 Manhattan
1875-77 Lawrence
1877 transfer to Minnesota Conference
1877-78 St. Paul First
1878-79 Minneapolis Centenary
1879 transfer to Genesee Conference
1879-81 Buffalo Grace
1881-84 Hornellsville
1884-85 Corning
1885-88 Wellsboro
1888-92 Batavia
1892-96 North Tonawanda First
1896-99 Medina
1899-01 Perry
1901-02 Williamsville
1902-05 Buffalo Ontario Street
1905-06 Buffalo Northampton Street
1906 retired
LOBDELL,
JESSE MONROE.
Born:
6-15-1876 married:
Helen Weed
Died:
11-26-1953 obit:
Central New York Conference 1965, 184
1897 license to exhort
1898 license to preach, Central New York
Conference
1906 admitted on trial
1902 ordained deacon
1907 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
Central New York Conference 1954, 136
1907-13 Thronga and Bunna
1913 transfer to West Virginia
Conference
1913-14 Junior
1914-15 Rouceverte
1915 transfer to Central New York
Conference
1915-17 Mainesburg
1917-18 Daggett
1918-20 Odessa
1920-22 East Palmyra
1922-23 Dresden
1923-24 Jacksonville
1924-26 Valois and Logan
1926-27 Mottville and Skaneateles Falls
1927-30 New Hope and Kelloggsville
1930-31 North Lansing, Asbury and East Genoa
1931-33 Virgil and East Virgil
1933-37 Wayne
1937-39 Taylor, Taylor Center and Union
Valley
1939 retired
LODER,
DWIGHT E.
Born:
7-8-1914 married:
Mildred Shay
Died:
11-9-2002 obit:
West Ohio Conference 2000, 394
1939 admitted on trial, Central New York
Conference
1941 ordained deacon, Central New York Conference
ordained
elder
Interment:
Walnut Grove Cemetery, Worthington OH
Obit:
1939-41 North
Towanda and Luther Mills
1941-48 Blossburg
1948 transfer to North Minnesota
Conference (2/1/1948)
president, Garrett Theological
Seminary in Evanston IL
1964 bishop
LOOMIS,
GORDON WARREN
Born:
12-30-1912 married: Mae C. Brandes
Died:
3-21-1990 obit:
Western New York Conference 2003,327
1932 license, Genesee Conference
1935 admitted on trial Genesee Conference
1937 ordained deacon, Genesee Conference
ordained
elder
Interment:
Grace Cemetery, Castile NY
Obit:
Western New York Conference 1990, 328
1933-34 Bliss and Eagle
1934-35 Genesee and Shongo
1935-39 Caneadea and East Caneadea
1939-42 East Otto and Ellicottville
1939-42 West
Webster
1942-44 Olean Peoples and Allegany
1944-51 Coudersport
and Sweden Valley (beginning 1/8/1944)
1951-60 Hornell
Spencer
1960-62 Buffalo South Park and Wilson
LOWELL,
CARLOS GOULD
Born:
8-21-1840 Nunda NY married:
Harriet Frances Babcock
Died:
12-6-1905 Angelica NY obit: Genesee
Conference 1937, 366
1865 admitted on trial, East Genesee Conference
1867 ordained deacon, East Genesee Conference
ordained
elder, East Genesee Conference
Interment:
Until the Day Dawn Cemetery, Angelica NY
Obit:
Genesee Conference 1906, 138
1865-66 Fremont
1867-67 Troupsburg
1867-69 Brookfield
1869-70 Dalton
1870-72 Cameron
1872 transfer to Western New York
Conference by change of boundaries
1873 transfer to Central New York
1876 transfer to Genesee Conference
by change of boundaries
1892-93 Angelica
Note:
Carlos G. Lowell is the son of Rev Daniel Lowell (1807-1863), affiliation
unknown, and a brother to Julian V. Lowell and to Rev. Daniel Dean Lowell
(1832-1891) of the Baptist Church.
LOWELL,
JULIAN VIRINOLDI
Born:
4-10-1837 Groveland NY married:
Sarah Rathbun
Died:
4-18-1893 Syracuse NY obit: Genesee
Conference 1894, 158
1870 admitted on trial, East Genesee Conference
1872 ordained deacon, East Genesee Conference
ordained
elder, East Genesee Conference
Interment:
Oakwood Cemetery
Obit:
Genesee Conference 1893, 145
1869-70 Brookfield
1870-72 Burlington
1872 transfer to Central New York
Conference by change of boundaries
1875-76 Knoxville
1876 transfer to Genesee Conference
by change of boundaries
1876-77 Knoxville
Note:
Julian V. Lowell is the son of Rev. Daniel B. Lowell (1807-1863), affiliation unknown,
and a brother to Carlos G. Lowell and to Rev. Daniel Dean Lowell (1832-1891) of
the Baptist Church.
LYMAN,
HUBERT HORTON
Born:
1827 Stockbridge NY married:
Elvira E. _____
Died:
9-23-1906 Sterling KS obit: [d.
8/?/1921]
1866 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference
Interment:
Elmwood Cemetery, Kansas City MO
Obit:
1861-62 Coudersport
1866-67 Warsaw
1867 discontinued
Note: H.H. Lyman was from the Coudersport area and served as a
local preacher before being admitted on trial.
He reportedly lived in Kansas City MO for the last 30 years of his
life. He reportedly was ordained a
deacon by Bishop Simpson and an elder by Bishop Jaynes, but that has not been
documented. He appears he may have
received local orders after relocating to the Kansas/Missouri area. He was known as H.H. Lyman, and his first
name is sometimes given as Herbert. The
first name of Mrs. Lyman is sometimes given as Alvira.
MacARTHUR,
VAUGHN HARTLEY
Born:
6-23-1900 Boston MA married:
Dorothy Betts
Died:
6-9-1945 Czechoslovakia obit:
1923 license
1927 admitted on trial, Maine Conference
1929 ordained deacon, Maine Conference
ordained
elder
Interment:
Lottaine American Cemetery and Memorial, Saint-Avold France
Obit:
Genesee Conference 1946, 521
1923-26 Kingman
1926-28 North Monmouth Community Church
1928-29 Scarboro Congregational Church
1929 transfer to Genesee Conference
1929-32 Dalton
1932-34 Lawrenceville
and Tioga
1934-39 Dansville and Sparta
1939- Buffalo First
chaplain, US Army
Note:
Vaughn MacArthur was killed in a jeep by an IED while serving as a
chaplain. In 1955, the widowed Mrs.
MacArthur married a Mr. Guy Seeley Longstroth.
The following website has interesting information about Vaughn H.
MacArthur and his son David W. MacArthur: https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/heraldtribune/obituary.aspx?n=david-warren-macarthur&pid=183729222
MacDOUGALD,
ARCHIE WALES
Born:
1-30-1878 Portville NY married: Edna
A. Parish
Died:
2-19-1951 Olean NY obit:
Genesee Conference 1958, 646
1905 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference
1907 ordained deacon, Genesee Conference
ordained
elder, Genesee Conference
Interment:
Chestnut Hill Cemetery, Portville NY
Obit:
Genesee Conference 1951, 778
1905-07 Portage and Wiscoy
1907-09 Alexander
1909-10 Whitesville
1910-11 Roulette
1911-12 Limestone
1912 transfer to Northern Minnesota
Conference
1912-13 Hebron WI
1913 transfer to Wisconsin Conference
1913-15 Hebron
1915 transfer to Genesee Conference
1915-17 Knoxville
1917-19 Middleport
1919-22 Eden
1922-24 Franklinville
1924-27 Andover
1927-31 Smethport
1931-33 Salamanca Peoples
1933-39 Duke Center
1939-40 Lawrenceville
1940 retired
MACKLIN,
JOHN GARFIELD
Born:
7-31-1859 Agincourt, Ontario married: Melva Hamilton
Died:
10-13-1914 North Collins NY obit: [8/26/1861 –
2/9/1932]
1892 license to preach
1894 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference
1896 ordained deacon, Genesee Conference
ordained
elder, Genesee Conference
Interment:
North Collins Quaker Meeting House Cemetery
Obit:
Genesee Conference 1915, 117
1893-96 Colden, Boston and West Falls
1896-00 Sardinia and Chaffee
1900-02 Fillmore, Wiscoy and Hume
1902-04 Rushford and Caneadea
1904-07 Westfield
1907-10 Hammondsville
1910-11
Avoca
MACKWOOD,
ROBERT
Born:
1832 married:
Died:
1-14-1925 Rochester NY obit:
1861 admitted on trial, East Genesee Conference
1863 ordained deacon, East Genesee Conference
ordained
elder, East Genesee Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1861-62 Troupsburg
1862-63 Milo
1863-66 Mainesburg
1866-67 Addison
1867 located
1867-70 law
student, University of Rochester
1870-00 attorney, New Castle PA
1900 retired
to Rochester PA
Note:
Robert Mackwood is a graduate of the University of Rochester, A.B. class of
1861 and A.M. class of 1870. This
surname is sometimes rendered erroneously rendered as McWOOD,
MANN,
JOHN AUGUSTUS
Born:
10-31-1890 married:
Catherine Houg
Died:
10-4-1971 obit:
Western New York Conference 1980, 306
1917 license
1917 admitted on trial, Wesleyan Methodist
Conference
1926 ordained deacon, Wesleyan Methodist
Conference
ordained
elder
Interment:
Obit:
Western New York Conference 1971, 292
1917-20 Orchard Park
1920-24 Higgins and Cadwells
1924-27 Cuniers and Java, Congregational
churches
1927-29 Belfast, Genesee Conference
1929 transfer to Genesee Conference,
Methodist Episcopal Church
1929-30 Belfast
1930-34 Machias
1934-38 Scio – Allentown
1938-44 Ransomville
1944-47 on leave
1944-46 Greenwood
1947-49 Cameron – Cameron Mills – Risingville
– Rathbone
1949-51 Galeton
1951-57 Royalton – South Royalton
1957 retired
MANNING,
WILLIAM
Born:
10-10-1827 Benson VT married:
Caroline Teall
Died:
1914 obit:
Genesee Conference 1893, 156
1850 admitted on trial, East Genesee Conference
1852 ordained deacon, East Genesee Conference
ordained
elder, East Genesee Conference
Interment:
Mount Hope Cemetery, Rochester NY
Obit:
1850-52 Wellsboro
1852-54 Mansfield
1854-55 Wellsville
1855-57 Lawrenceville
1857-59 Penfield
1859-61 Rochester Frank Street
1861-63 Trumansburg
1863-65 Bath
1865-68 Lyons
1868-71 Waterloo
1871-72 Newark
1872 transfer to Central New York
Conference by change of boundaries
1876 transfer to Genesee Conference
by change of boundaries
1895 withdrew
MANNING,
WILLIAM HENRY
Born:
7-3-1848 Boston MA married:
Charlotte Lizabeth Blondin
Died:
3-28-1934 Elkland PA obit: [1845
– 11/20/1875]
married2:
Ida Amelia Maxham [1/3/1877]
1885 license obit2:
Genesee Conference 1916, 136
1890 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference
1892 ordained deacon, Genesee Conference
ordained
elder, Genesee Conference
Interment:
Rural Cemetery, Hornell NY
Obit:
Genesee Conference 1934, 538
1889-89 Port Allegany
1889-94 Ulysses
1894-95 Portville
1895-95 Rushford and Caneadea
1896-99 Jasper
1899-01 Hornellsville East Avenue
1901-04 Troupsburg
1904-05 Harrison
Valley
1905-07 Tioga
and Farmington
1907-10 Duke Center and Rixford
1910-11 Limestone
MARQUIS,
HENRY J.
Born:
4-7-1888 Concordia KS married: Sarah
Elizabeth Henderson [9/11/1924]
Died:
12-22-1968 Bradenton FL obit: Genesee
Conference 1926, 583
married2:
Sara Cox [1927]
1922 license obit2:
Western New York Conference 1972, 298
1930 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference
1932 ordained deacon, Genesee Conference
ordained
elder
Interment:
Obit:
Western New York Conference 1969, 242
1925-26 Nelson
1926-27 Lindley
1927-30 Kanona
1930-34 Whitesville
1934-39 Waterport, Kenyonville and Kuckville
1939-43 Hornell Spencer
1943-48 North Cohocton, Cohocton and Lent
Hill
1948-55 Indian Falls
1949-55 Indian
mission
1955-59 Olean Peoples
1955-56 Allegany
1959 retired
1959-60 East
Otto
Note:
Before marrying Henry J. Marquis, the second Mrs. Marquis taught French and
Spanish at Taylor University and spent seven years in Guatemala as a missionary
with the Church of the Nazarene – during which time she was ordained an elder
in that denomination.
MARTIN,
D.F.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
license
Interment:
Obit:
1921-24
Harrison Valley
Note:
D.F. Martin served as a supply preacher.
MASON,
HOMER BEACH
Born:
8-26-1855 Pavilion NY married:
Minnie Electa Somers
Died:
5-11-1912 Syracuse NY obit: Genesee
Conference 1932, 128
1876 license to preach
1881 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference
1883 ordained deacon, Genesee Conference
ordained
elder, Genesee Conference
Interment:
Oakwood Cemetery, Syracuse NY
Obit:
Genesee Conference 1912, 139
1880-82 Miller’s Corners (starting last 5
months of 1880-81 year)
1882-83 Lincoln
1883-86 Westfield
and Brookfield
1886-88 Cohocton
1888-90 Johnsonburg
1890-91 Oakfield
1891-93 Prattsburg
1893-94 on leave
1893-94 Hamlin
(last 6 months)
1894-95 Hamlin
1895-97 Royalton and West Shelby
1897-00 Holley
1900-02 East Bloomfield
1902-06 assistant, Genesco
1906-08 on leave
1908 retired
MATTHEWS,
ALMERON EVART
Born:
11-23-1879 married:
Nora Perkins
Died:
8-4-1962 obit:
Western New York Conference 1968, 244
1908 license
1908 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference
1915 ordained deacon, Genesee Conference
ordained
elder
Interment:
Prospect Hill Cemetery, Perry Center NY
Obit:
Genesee Conference 1962, 989
1908-16 faculty, Genesee Wesleyan Seminary in
Lima NY
1916-21 Kendall
1921-29 Somerset
1929-34 Dansville
1934-37 Elkland
and Osceola
1937-41 East Rochester
1941-47 Savona
1947 Honeoye Falls – Ionia
1947-50 registrar, Genesee Junior College
1950 retired
1950-54 Warrens
Corners – North Ridge
Note: The middle name of Almeron E. Matthews is
given variously as Evart, Evert and Everett.
In addition, the birth year on his grave marker is 1878.
MATTISON,
WILLIAM CASE
Born:
2-18-1822 Scipio NY married:
Anna C. Goodrich
Died:
2-15-1897 Newark NY obit:
12/21/1826 – 2/24/1864]
married2:
Frances Mary Barker
1850 admitted on trial, East Genesee Conference obit2: Central New York Conference 1908, 156
1852 ordained deacon, East Genesee Conference
ordained
elder, East Genesee Conference
Interment:
Washington Street Cemetery, Geneva NY
Obit:
Central New York Conference 1897, 98
1850-51 Covington
mission
1851-52 Wellsboro
1852-64 Whitesville
1854-56 Tyrone and Wayne
1856-58 Jacksonville
1858-59 Pittsford
1859-61 Geneseo and Groveland
1861-63 Bath
1863-65 Lodi
1865-66 Horseheads
1866 transfer to Missouri and
Arkansas Conference
1869 charter member of Missouri
Conference
1869
transfer to East Genesee
Conference
1869-70 Angelica
1870-72 Hornellsville
1872 transfer to Central New York by
change of boundaries
1876 transfer to Genesee by change of
boundaries
1880 transfer to Central New York
Conference by change of boundaries
Note:
William C. Mattison is the son of Rev. Seth Mattison (1788-1843) of the Genesee
Conference.
MAY,
R. EUGENE
Born: married:
Died: obit:
married2:
Mrs. Elsie Mae Robinson Johnson
1960 license obit2:
[10/2/1909 – 4/13/2003]
admitted
on trial, Genesee Conference
ordained
deacon, Genesee Conference
ordained
elder
Interment:
Obit:
Genesee Conference
1953-55 Knoxville
– Austinburg
1960- Fillmore – Porter Center
Note:
The second (first and only?) Mrs. May (nee Robinson) was the widow of a Mr.
Howard I. Johnson (1907-1983). It has
not been confirmed that her husband Rev. R. Eugene May is the same Rev. Eugene
May that served in the Genesee Conference.
McCONNELL,
ELI G.
Born:
1825 married:
Lydia A. _____
Died:
5-11-1877 New Albany PA obit: [1827 -
1872 ordained (local) deacon, Central New York
Conference
Interment:
Mainesburg Cemetery, Mainesburg PA
Obit:
1869-70 Dushore
and Wilmot, East
Genesee Conference
1870-71 Forksville, East Genesee
Conference
1872 “transfer” to Central New York
Conference by change of boundaries
Note:
E.G. McConnel served as a local preacher.
It also appears that he was ordained a (local) deacon by the Wisconsin
Conference later in 1872.
McELHENEY,
THEODORE
Born:
1-8-1809 Dryden NY married:
Elizabeth Churchill (8/23/1832)
Died:
3-23-1875 Burdett NY obit:
Central New York Conference 1882, 101
1837 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference
1840 ordained deacon, Genesee Conference
1842 ordained elder, Genesee Conference
Interment:
Burdett Bapotist Church Cemetery, Burdett NY
Obit:
Central New York Conference 1875, 91
Troupsburgh
1839-41 Knoxville
Naples
Angelica
Avoca
1848 charter member of East Genesee
Conference
1849-49 Conesus and Springwater
1849-50 Hector
1850-52 Towanda
1852-53 Corning
1853-54 Elmira First
1854-56 Dundee
1856-58 Horseheads
1858-60 Burdette
1860-62 Havana
1862-63 Potter
1863-65 Hopewell
1865 retired
1872 transfer to Central New York
Conference by change of boundaries
Note:
This surname is also rendered McELHENNY
McILNAY,
HAROLD WILLIAM
Born:
8-13-1899 Polo IL married: Helen Elizabeth
Brooks
Died:
1-25-1972 Sun City AZ obit:
Southern California-Arizona Conference 1967, 267
1922 license
1926 admitted on trial, New England Southern
Conference
1928 ordained deacon, Rock River Conference
ordained
elder
Interment:
Obit:
Southern California-Arizona Conference 1972, 293
1926-27 assistant, Providence Mathewson
Street
1927 transfer to Rock River
Conference
1927-29 Kirkland
1929-31 assistant, Chicago St. James
1931-34 Naperville
1934-38 Glencoe North Shore
1938 transfer to Genesee Conference
1938-41 Wellsboro
1941-43 superintendent, Olean District
1943-47 superintendent, Rochester District
1947-53 Lockport Emmanuel
1953- superintendent, Buffalo District
Note:
Harold W. McIlnay is the father of Richard McIlnay of the Genesee Conference.
McINTIRE,
ANDREW
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1853 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference
1855 ordained deacon, Genesee Conference
ordained
elder
Interment:
Obit:
1855-56 located
1856-57
1857-58 Coudersport
1866-67 principal, Rushford Academy
1869 located
Note:
Thus surname is also rendered McINTYRE.
McMAHON,
ISAIAH
Born:
7-19-1808 Aughnacloy, Ireland married: Margaret Todd
Died:
1-17-1892 Lima NY obit: Genesee Conference
1892, 116
1839 admitted on trial, Maine Conference
1841 ordained deacon, Maine Conference
ordained
elder, Maine Conference
Interment:
New Methodist Cemetery, Lima NY
Obit:
Genesee Conference 1892, 116
1844 transfer to Genesee Conference
1848 charter member of East Genesee
Conference
1848-50 Honeoye Falls
1859-51 Waterloo
1851-52 Vienna
1852-54 Towanda
1854-56 Wellsboro
1856-57 principal, Rogersville Union Seminary
1857-59 Sparta
1859-60 Conesus
1860-62 West Bloomfield
1862 located
1885 “transfer” to Genesee Conference
Note:
Isaiah and Margaret McMahon, both in their 80’s, passed away on the same
day. Mrs. McMahon is reported to have
said, “How beautiful it is that we can go together.”
McWOOD
– see MACKWOOD
MEAD,
NORMAN JOSEPH
Born:
2-27-1921 Rochester NY married: Ruth G.
Crawford (10/5/1945)
Died:
10-7-2015 Los Alamos NM obit: [3/18/1922 –
4/6/2006]
1944 ordained, Baptist Church
Interment:
Fernhill Memorial Gardens and Mausoleum, Stuart FL
Obit:
1944-47 Freeland PA Bethel Baptist
1947-48 Olean NY First Baptist
1948-53 Westfield PA Baptist
1953 transfer to Genesee Conference,
Methodist Church
1953 - Elkland
– Osceola
Corning
Coopers Plains
Hornell
Lancaster
Buffalo
Arcade
1987 retired
MEEKER,
HENRY
Born:
10-16-1827 McDonough NY married: Celestia
Chloe Dailey (12/31/1849}
Died:
6-7-1906 East Smithfield PA obit: [1830 –
7/8/1907]
1857 license to exhort
1858 license
1860 admitted on trial, Central New York
Conference
1862 ordained deacon, Central New York Conference
1865 ordained elder
Interment:
Woodlawn Cemetery, Elmira NY
Obit:
Central New York Conference 1906, 147
1860-61 Mount Upton
1861-65 East Homer
1863-65 Harford
1865-68 Cuyler
1868-69 Scott
1869-70 Dryden
1870-73 Owasco
1873-75 Victory
1875-78 Savannah
1878-81 Canoga
1881-82 Caton
1882-84 East
Canton
1884-86 East
Smithfield
1886-88 Nelson
1888-90 Cuyler and DeRuyter
1890-92 Millerton
MERRICK,
WALTER
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Central New York Conference
license
to preach, Central New York Conference
Interment:
Obit:
Central New York Conference
1917-18 Forksville
Note:
Walter Merrick served as a supply preacher.
He is otherwise unknown. He appears
to have been originally from Wellsboro and later united with another
denomination.
MERRING,
JOSEPH
Born:
11-25-1838 NJ married: Amelia
Henrietta Rinebold
Died:
4-14-1906 Syracuse NY obit: Genesee
Conference 1879, 71
1866 license to exhort
1867 license
1872 admitted on trial, Central New York
Conference
1874 ordained deacon, Central New York Conference
1876 ordained elder
Interment:
Methodist Cemetery, Overton PA
Obit:
Central New York Conference 1906, 149
1867 Almond (3 months)
1872-74 New
Albany
1874-77 Wilmot
1877-79 West Almond
1878-79 Almond
1879-81 Beaver Dams
1881-83 North Chemung
1883-85 Burlington
1885-87 Daggett’s
Mills
1887-92 Terrytown
Note:
Joseph Merring is the father of Rev. Edwin Ernest Merring (1874-1945) of the Central
New York Conference.
METZGER,
CHARLES A.
Born:
4-8-1874 Cogan Station PA married:
Sarah Rabuck
Died:
5-29-1945 Williamsport PA obit: Central
Pennsylvania Conference 1961, 265
1919 license, Central Pennsylvania Conference
Interment: Wildwood
Cemetery, Williamsport PA
Obit: Central Pennsylvania
Conference 1946, 229
1919-21 Leetonia (beginning 10/19)
1921-24 Morris
1922-24 Coolidge Hollow, Genesee
Conference
1924-27 Bloomingdale
1927-32 Pleasant Gap
1932-36 Conyngham
1936-40 Snydertown
1940-44 Beach Haven (ending 9/1/44)
1944-45 Picture Rocks (beginning 9/1/44)
Note:
Charles A. Metzger served as a supply preacher.
Before entering the ministry he had been a grocer in Williamsport and
for 19 years the Sunday School superintendent at Newberry. He is a brother to supply pastor A. Calvin
Metzger (1875-1924) of the Central Pennsylvania Conference, whose place he took
over in Bloomingdale. His name in the
Central Pennsylvania Conference is given as CLARENCE ALVA METZGER.
MILLER,
J.W.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Genesee Conference
Interment:
Obit:
Genesee Conference
1881-84 Chatham
MILLER,
PAUL SIMPSON
Born:
3-28-1899 Milford NH married:
[single]
Died:
6-14-1955 Batavia NY obit:
1931 license
1933 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference
1935 ordained deacon, Genesee Conference
ordained
elder
Interment:
Obit:
Genesee Conference 1956, 151
1932-33 Scottsville
1933-38 Stafford
1938-41 Caneadea
1941-42 on leave
1942-45 Whitneyville
1945-50 Kendall – Hulberton
1950-53 South Bryon – Stafford
1953 retired
Note:
Paul M. Miller is the son of Rev. Idelbert B. Miller (1863-1930) of the Genesee
Conference and a cousin to Rev. Camby L. Moore (1891-1962) of the Western
Pennsylvania Conference.
MILWARD,
SAMUEL
Born:
8-27-1836 Redditch England married: Sarah Ann
Yozall
Died:
4-18-1898 Batavia NY obit:
Genesee Conference 1918, 121
1869 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference
1871 ordained deacon, Genesee Conference
ordained
elder
Interment:
Batavia Cemetery, Batavia NY
Obit:
Genesee Conference 1898, 131
1869-71 Stafford
1871-72 Scottsville
1872-74 Ear Otto
1874-75 on leave
1875-76 Coudersport
1876-79 Pike
1879-81 Attica
1881-84 Geneseo
1884-85 Lima
MOORE,
GLENN THOMAS
Born:
6-3-1914 married:
Evelyn S. _____
Died:
3-7-1971 obit:
Western New York Conference 1989, 344
1936 admitted on trial, Onondaga Conference of
the Methodist Protestant Church
1939 ordained deacon, Onondaga Conference of the
Methodist Protestant Church
ordained
elder
Interment:
Falls Cemetery, Greece NY
Obit:
Western New York Conference 1971, 275
1939 transfer to Genesee Conference
by denominational union
1939 WHMS Settlement House, Barre VT
1939-41 Niagara
1941-42 Caneadea
1942-44 East Otto – Ellicottville
1944-45 North Chili
1945-46 on leave
1946-50 Avoca – Wallace
1950-53 Elkland
– Osceola
1953- Nunda – West Sparta
Note:
Mrs. Moore was also a clergy member of the Western New York Conference.
MOORE,
WILLIAM LEMON
Born:
7-4-1850 married:
Bessie E. Page
Died:
10-12-1915 obit:
Genesee Conference 1954, 593
1883 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference
1885 ordained deacon, Genesee Conference
ordained
elder, Genesee Conference
Interment:
Hinsdale Cemetery, Maplehurst NY
Obit:
Genesee Conference 1916, 123
1883-85 Stafford and Roanoke
1885-87 Fremont
1887-89 Alexander
1889-92 Silver Springs
1892-94 East Groveland
1894-95 Centerville and Eagle
1895-98 West Sparta
1898-00 Bradford NY
1900-02 Woodhull
1902-04 Keeneyville
1904-07 Rathbone
1907-10 Hinsdale
1910-11 Delevan and Yorkshire
Note:
Some sources give a birthdate for William Lemon Moore of 3-12-1850.
MOREY,
ARTHUR E.
Born:
10-23-1892 married:
Jessie Martin
Died:
10-11-1968 obit:
Central New York Conference 1966, 194
1920 admitted on trial, Central New York
Conference
1922 ordained deacon, Central New York Conference
ordained
elder
Interment:
Obit:
Central New York Conference 1969, 166
1920-21 Cuyler and Keeney
1921-22 South Otselic and North Pitcher
1922-25 Jamesville
1925-27 Euclid and Morgan
1927-33 Cazenovia
1933-40 Wolcott
1940-45 Manlius
1945-50 Troy
1945-47
Columbia Cross Roads
1950-59 Clyde
1959 retired
MORRIS,
EDWARD EVAN
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Central New York Conference
1870 license to exhort
1876 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference
1878 ordained deacon, Genesee Conference
1880 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
Central New York Conference
1873-74 Erieville
1875-77 Delmar
1877-79 Monroeton
1879-80 Mainesburg
1880 transfer to Central New York
Conference by change of boundaries
1880-81 Mainesburg
1882-84 Horseheads
1884-86 Trumansburg
1886-91 North Hector
1891 retired
MORROW,
CHARLES REUBEN
Born:
6-8-1857 Bath NY married: Olive Katherine
Cook
Died:
6-11-1929 obit:
Genesee Conference 1928, 116
1888 license to preach
1890 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference
1892 ordained deacon, Genesee Conference
ordained
elder, Genesee Conference
Interment:
Grove Cemetery, Bath NY
Obit:
Genesee Conference 1929, 311
1889-91 Troupsburg
and Brookfield
1891-92 South Addison
1892-95 Little
Marsh
1895-00 Woodhull
1900-02 Coocton
1902-04 Newfane and Olcott
1904-07 Hamlin
1907-10 Clarendon and Hulberton
1910-11 Savona
Note:
Charles R. Morrow is a brother to Rev. Joseph Morrow (1853-1923) of the Genesee
Conference.
MOSES,
HOWARD VERNON
Born:
1-4-1905 Knoxville PA married:
Gladys Ann Bradley
Died:
1-23-1955 Fairport NY obit:
Western New York Conference 1966, 823
1926 license
1930 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference
1932 ordained deacon, Genesee Conference
1933 ordained elder
Interment:
Forest Lawn Cemetery, Buffalo NY
Obit:
Genesee Conference 1955, 824
1927-29 Fayette, Central New York Conference
1930-32 Union Hill
1932-36 Avon and Fowlerville
1936-39 Honeoye Falls and Ionia
1939-41 Coudersport
and Sweden Valley
MOSS,
CHARLES TATUM
Born:
2-20-1829 Edmonton England married: Mary Wolfenden
Died:
11-19-1899 Ledyard NY obit: Central
New York Conference 1884, 92
married2:
Flora Esther Roe
1853 license to exhort obit2: Central New York
Conference 1947, 142
1855 license
1855 admitted on trial, Central New York
Conference
1857 ordained deacon, Central New York Conference
1859 ordained elder
Interment:
Oak Hill Cemetery, Herkimer NY
Obit:
Central New York Conference 1900, 113
1855-56 Pompey
1856-57 Cardiff
1857-58 Summer Hill
1858-59 McGrawville
1859-61 Butternuts
1861-63 East Hamilton
1863-65 Plymouth
1865-67 Milford
1867-70 Ames
1870-72 Herkimer
1872-73 Jordan
1873-74 assistant editor, Northern Christian Advocate
1874-77 editor, Watchword
1877-79 Mecklenburg
1879-81 Elmira South Main Street
1882-84 Towanda
1884-87 Wolcott
1887-90 Oneida
1890-92 Baldwinsville
MOXCEY,
GEORGE WARD
Born:
4-16-1846 Phelps NY married:
Ella Maria Dana
Died:
11-19-1927 Syracuse NY obit: Central
New York Conference 1947, 143
1868 license to exhort
1871 license
1875 admitted on trial, Central New York
Conference
1875 ordained deacon, Central New York Conference
1879 ordained elder
Interment:
Lakeview Cemetery, Penn Yan NY
Obit:
Central New York Conference 1928, 134
1871-72 Monrovia KS (5 months)
1875-76 Italy
1876 transfer to Genesee Conference
by change of boundary
1876-77 Wheeler
1877-78 Big Flats
1878-80 Wayne and Barrington
1880 transfer to Central New York
Conference by change of boundary
1880-81 North Chemung
1881-82 New
Albany
1882-83 Logan
1883-85 Erin and Breesport
1885-87 Beaver Dams
1887-88 Rutland
1888-91 Ulster
1891- Cicero and Beaverton
MOYER,
HENRY CLINTON
Born:
10-11-1836 Turbotville PA married: Elizabeth
G. Cramer
Died:
9-24-1908 Williamsport PA obit: Central New
York Conference 1927, 818
1863 license to exhort
1865 license to preach
1873 admitted on trial, Central New York
Conference
1873 ordained deacon, Central New York Conference
1877 ordained elder, East Genesee Conference
Interment:
Indian Mound Cemetery, Moravia NY
Obit:
Central New York Conference 1908, 158
1862-71 faculty, Williamsport Dickinson
Seminary
1867-68 periodic
at Williamsport “New Chapel” [Third Street]
1871-73 principal, Canton PA
1873-75 Charleston
1875-76 Osceola
1876 transfer by change of boundaries
to East Genesee [Genesee] Conference
1876-78 Osceola
1878-80 Mansfield
1880 transfer by change of boundaries
to Central New York Conference
1880-81 Mansfield
1881-83 Troy
1883-86 Watkins
1886-88 Ovid
1888-91 Moravia
1891- Palmyra
Newark
Auburn Wall Street
Cortland Homer Avenue
Note:
Henry C. Moyer was on the faculty at Williamsport Dickinson Seminary and a
local preacher connected to Williamsport Mulberry Street. Later he returned to the area and was a
member at South Williamsport. He is the
father of missionary to India Miss Jennie Moyer.
MOYER,
JOHN CHARLES BRECKENRIDGE.
Born:
10-20-1857 PA married: Zilphia E.
Haverly (1880)
Died:
4-17-1928 obit: Central
New York Conference 1928, 146
1876 license to exhort
1876 license
1876 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference
1878 ordained deacon, Genesee Conference
1880 ordained elder
Interment:
Riverview Cemetery, Baldwinsville NY
Obit:
Central New York Conference 1928, 139
1875 Covington (6 months)
1876-78 New
Albany
1878-80 Forksville
1880 transfer to Central New York
Conferebnce by change of boubdaries
1880-81 Ulster
1881-83 in school
1882 East
Palmyra (7 months)
1883-84 East Palmyra
1884-87 East
Canton
1887-88 Ulster
1888-90 Mecklenburg
1890- Horseheads
MULFORD,
URI
Born:
1852 married:
Mary Bently
Died:
1931 obit:
[1861 – 11/12/1949]
Interment:
Hope Cemetery, South Corning NY
Obit:
1892-93 Keeneyville
1893-95 Gaines
1895-96 Tioga
1896-98 Keeneyville
Note:
The personal information above is for the Uri Mulford who was a noted newspaper
editor around 1900 and the author of the 1920 book Pioneer Days. He is believed
to be the same Uri Mulford who served for a while in the Genesee Conference.
MULHOLLEN,
LYMAN FRANK
Born:
5-3-1871 Jasper NY married:
Olive Grace Knapp
Died:
10-3-1929 obit:
Central Kansas Conference 1949, 278
1896 license to preach
1899 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference
1903 ordained deacon, Genesee Conference
ordained
elder, Genesee Conference
Interment:
Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale CA
Obit:
Southwest Kansas Conference 1929, 22
1896-97 assistant,
Westfield
1897-98 Potter
Brook
1898-01 Lawrenceville
1901-06 Knoxville
1906-08 Hornell East Avenue
1908-09 student
1909-11 on leave
NASH,
CHARLES
Born:
10-28-1802 Granby MA married:
Laurissa Harriet Thomas (7/17/1828)
Died:
3-4-1868 obit:
[1/3/1806 – 11/2/1884]
1828 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference
? ordained deacon, Genesee Conference
1830 ordained elder, Oneida Conference
Interment:
Wildwood Cemetery, Williamsport PA
Obit:
Genesee Conference
1828-29 Wyalusing
1829 charter member of Oneida
Conference
1829-30 Wyalusing
1830-32 Wilkes-barre
1832-33 Wyoming
1833-35 Bethany
1835-41 on leave for health reasons
teacher, Cayuga and Seneca
counties in NY
1841 located
1841-45 teacher,
academy in Towanda PA
1848 redmitted
1848-51 Wellsboro
1851 retired to Williamsport PA
1857-68 periodic
at Williamsport “New Chapel” [Third Street]
Note:
Charles Nash is the father of gospel songwriter Kate E. Purvis – who is the
subject of the article “Kate E. Purvis: Little Known and Often Cited” in the
2010 issue of The Chronicle, pages
3-14, which gives much family information.
He had prepared for a career in teaching and taught 1825-28 at the
academy in Wellsboro PA. He reportedly
served in 1864 (at age 62) as a private in Company C of the 107th
[PA] Regiment.
NASH,
CLARENCE HOMER
Born:
12-23-1892 Buffalo NY married:
Gladys M. Fortner [1917]
Died:
8-?-1983 Salamanca NY obit: [1898 –
1970]
1915 license
1918 admitted on trial, Tennessee Conference of
the Methodist Episcopal Church South
1920 ordained deacon, Genesee Conference
ordained
elder
Interment:
Obit:
1917-18 White Bluff (last part of year)
1918-19 Bon Air and Clifty
1919 transfer to Genesee Conference
1919-20 Alden
1920-21 Cameron (apparently moved to Elkand
during the conference year)
1921-22 Elkland
1922-26 Savona
1926-28 North Cohocton
1928-33 Fillmore
1933-34 Shinglehouse
1934-36 Olean People’s and Allegheny
1936-37 Buffalo Sumner Place
1937-38 Kendall and Hulbertson
1938-39 Addison
1939- East Otto and Ellicottville
Note:
Mrs. Nash is a native of Tennessee.
NELSON,
J.A.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Interment:
Obit:
1898-01 Roulette
1906-09 Genesee
Note:
J.A. Nelson served as a supply preacher.
He is otherwise unknown.
NEVILLE, JAMES WALLACE
Born:
12-13-1888 Ontario, Canada married: M. Ferne
Liedy (6/19/1921)
Died:
3-26-1975 Buffalo NY obit:
Western New York Conference 1986, 354
1909 license
1911 admitted on trial, Genesee
1913 ordained deacon, Genesee Conference
ordained
elder
Interment:
Elmlawn Cemetery, Tonawanda NY
Obit:
Western New York Conference
1909-11 Lamont
1911-13 Genesee
1913-14 Sandusky
1914-17 student
1917-18 Prattsburg
1918-19 Canaseraga
1919-20 Kanona
1920-23 Castile
1923-25 on leave
1925 withdrew to join Evangelical and
Reformed Church
1925-41 Buffalo Grace E & R
1941 “transfer” to Genesee Conference
of the Methodist Church
1941-42 Springwater - Canadice
1942-26 Wrights and Port
Allegheny
1946-48 Rochester – Greece
1948-53 Attica
1953-55 Pavilion
1955-56 Indian Falls – Indian Mission
Note:
J. Wallace Neville is the brother of Rev. William Wellington Neville
(1883-1967) of the Genesee Conference.
NICHOLS,
SAMUEL
Born:
2-27-1813 Edmonston NY married: Lydia Ann
Gilbert [1833]
Died:
10-6-1894 Bath NY obit: Genesee Conference
1883, 108
married2:
Martha Amelia Averill [1885]
1835 license to exhort obit2: [10/1/1938 –
3/31/1907]
1836 license to preach
1839 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference
1842 ordained deacon, Genesee Conference
ordained
elder, Genesee Conference
Interment:
Grove Cemetery, Bath NY
Obit:
Genesee Conference 1894, 154
1839-40 Alfred circuit
1840-42 Independence circuit
1842-44 Westfield
circuit
1844-45 Tioga
circuit
(from Lawrenceville to Liberty)
1845-47 Addison
1847-48 Wellsboro
1848 charter member of East Genesee
Conference
1848-49 Wellsboro
1849-51 Tyrone
1851-53 Avoca
1853-55 Coke’s Chapel and Bristol
1855-56 Knoxville
1856-58 Burlington
1858-59 Lawrenceville
1859-60 Towanda
1860-61 Webster
1861-63 Townsendville
1863-64 Watkins
1864-66 Jacksonville
1866-67 Painted Post
1967-69 Bible agent for Steuben and Chemung
counties
1869-71 Burdette
1871-72 Townsendville
1872 transfer to Central New York
Conference by change of boundaries
1872-73 Townsendville
1873-76 Butler Center
1876-77 Montezume
1877 transfer to Genesee Conference
1877-78 Kanona
1878-79 Bath
1879-81 Kanona
1881-82 Bath
1882 retired
NORTHROP,
LEON A.
Born:
6-24-1897 PA married: Nina Mae
Burton (1928)
Died:
2-11-1968 Auburn NY obit:
[5/18/1906 – 9/?/1971]
1925 admitted on trial, Central New York
Conference
1929 ordained deacon, Central New York Conference
ordained
elder
Interment:
Lakeview Cemetery, Cayuga NY
Obit:
Central New York Conference 1968, 198
1925-26 Chittenango
1926-28 Erieville and Nelson
1928-29 Millerton
1929-32 Beaver Dams
1932-37 North Towanda and Luther’s Mills
1937-39 Newfield and Trumbulls
1939-45 Monroeton,
Franklindale, Powell and West Franklin
1944-45 Liberty
Corners
1945-49 Burlington,
Fairview, Mountain Lake and West Burlington
1949-51 Newton Creek parish
1951-58 Cayuga Half Acre
1958-60 South Otselic and Pharsalia
1960-63 East Syracuse
1963 retired
NORTHWAY,
LUTHER
Born:
3-18-1817 Hornby NY married:
Katherine Elizabeth Robinson
Died:
6-16-1893 Seneca Falls NY obit: Central New
York Conference 1938, 439
1842 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference
1844 ordained deacon, East Genesee Conference
ordained
elder, Genesee Conference
Interment:
Forest Home Cemetery, Waverly NY
Obit:
Central New York Conference 1893, 106
1848 charter member of East Genesee
Conference
1848-49 Tioga
and Lawrenceville
1849-51 Jefferson
1851-52 Benton Center
1852-54 Clyde
1854-56 Port Gibson
1856-58 Pultneyville
1858-60 Webster
1860-62 Honeoye Falls
1862-64 Macedon Center
1864-65 on leave
1865-67 Avon
1867-69 Horseheads
1869-72 Mecklenburg
1872 transfer to Central New York
Conference by change of boundaries
NOYES,
EARL ALVIN
Born:
5-11-1909 NE married: Joyce
Louesa Dunbar (1934)
Died:
4-30-1994 Horseheads NY obit: [7/22/1910 –
5/1/2001]
1936 admitted on trial, Central New York
Conference
1938 ordained deacon, Central New York Conference
ordained
elder
Interment:
Glenwood Cemetery, Oneida NY
Obit:
North Central New York Conference 1994, 361
1936-39 New
Albany, Overton and New Era
1939-43 Newfield and Trumbulls
1942-43 West
Danby
1943-48 Ithaca State Street
1948-53 Horseheads
1953-62 Oneida
1962- Penn Yan
ODELL,
JEREMIAH
Born:
3-26-1826 married:
Elizabeth Kistler
Died:
5-10-1895 obit:
[6/2/1834 – 3/20/1915]
1853 admitted on trial, East Genesee Conference
1855 ordained deacon, East Genesee Conference
1859 ordained elder, Michigan Conference
Interment:
Glenwood Cemetery, Lockport NY
Obit:
1853-54 Hector
1854-55 Jackson
1855 located
1857 “transfer” to Michigan
Conference
1857-58 Hastings
1858-60 Battle Creek
ODOM,
WARREN GOULD
Born:
3-8-1910 KS married: Helen
Gertrude Bourne
Died:
3-21-1989 Falmouth MA obit: North
Central New York Conference 1997, 368
1933 admitted on trial, East Swedish Conference
1935 ordained deacon, Central New York Conference
ordained
elder
Interment:
Oakland Grove Cemetery, Bourne MA
Obit:
North Central New York Conference 1989, 447
1933 transfer to Kansas Conference
1933-35 student
1935 transfer to Central New York
Conference
1935-37 Burlington,
Mountain Lake and Fairview
1937-41 Syracuse James Street
1941-51 Auburn First
1951-57 superintendent, Syracuse District
1957- Elmira Hedding
OLMSTEAD,
JAMES HARRISON
Born:
12-10-1877 Windham Center PA married: Rose May Stone
[1904]
Died:1-?-1975 Mount Holly Springs PA obit: Western New York Conference 1970, 263
1896 license
1904 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference
1906 ordained deacon, Genesee Conference
ordained
elder
Interment:
Webster Rural Cemetery, Webster NY
Obit:
Western New York Conference 1975, 228
1900-02 West Camden
1902-03 Gold
1903-04 Lockport First
1904-05 Lakeside and Ontario
1905-08 East Rochester
1908-10 Lima
1910-13 Webster
1913-15 Mount Morris
1915-18 Brockport
1918-21 Spencer Ripley
1921-25 Batavia
1925-28 Niagara Falls St. James
1928-30 Corning First
1930-34 Hamburg
1934-39 Buffalo First
1939- Webster
Note:
James H. Olmstead is a brother to Phebe C. Olmstead Young, wife of Owen B.
Young.
OTTER,
LOUIS ERNEST
Born:
2-26-1897 Bay City MI married: Eula
Bergitta Carlson
Died:
6-17-1979 Blufftom IN obit:
Northern New York Conference 1980, 240
1924 admitted on trial, Kentucky Conference
1928 ordained deacon, Central New York Conference
ordained
elder
Interment:
Wilmore Cemetery, Wilmore KY
Obit:
Northern New York Conference 1980, 239
1924-25 Booneville
1925-27 chaplain, Kentucky Houses of Reform
1927 transfer to Central New York
Conference
1927-30 Monroeton
1930-35 Elmira Epworth
1935-38 Dundee – Starkey
1938-43 Elmira Riverside
1943-48 Oneida
1948- Syracuse Furman Street
OVENSHIRE,
GUY M.
Born:
4-17-1894 Bath NY married: Eula Bertha Everson
Died: 3-13-1964
Lakeland FL obit:
Western New York Conference 1993, 341
1917 license, Genesee Conference
1918 admitted on trial
1921 ordained deacon
Ordained elder
Interment:
Nondaga Cemetery, Bath NY
Obit:
Genesee Conference 1964, 220
1918-20 Greenwood
1920-21 Lawrenceville [appears to be re-assigned to Allen’s Hill –
Canadice]
1921-22 West Webster
1922-26 Kendall
1926-30 student, Boston University
Fall River MA
Summerfield MA
1930-34 Corning First
1934-39 Humboldt
1939-49 Wellsville
1949-54 Rochester Monroe Avenue
1954-55 Corning Grace
1955-59 superintendent, Hornell District
1959-60 superintendent, Watson Homestead
1960 retired
Note:
Guy M. Ovenshire is the father of Lewis Frederick Ovenshire (1915-1977) of the
Louisiana Conference.
OWEN,
HARVEY JAMES
Born:
3-21-1846 Penfield NY married:
Esther Lucretia Herrick
Died:
5-1-1921 Penn Yan NY obit: Genesee
Conference 1922, 505
1874 license to preach
1876 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference
1878 ordained deacon, Genesee Conference
ordained
elder, Genesee Conference
Interment:
Lakeview Cemetery, Penn Yan NY
Obit:
Genesee Conference 1921, 284
1874-76 East Henrietta
1876-77 Alexander
1877-79 Lincoln
1879-80 Bath Second
1880-81 Bradford NY
1881-84 Woodhull
1884-87 Rathboneville
1887-90 East
Charleston
1890-94 Knoxville
1894-98 Savona
1898-00 Cohocton
1900-01 Sanborn
1901-03 Garland and Otis
1903-08 on leave
1908 retired
PACKER,
GEORGE NICHOLS
Born: married:
Died:
1899 obit:
[1826 – 1907]
1860 admitted on trial, East Genesee Conference
ordained local deacon
Interment:
Obit:
1860-61 Mansfield
1861-62 Forksville
1862-63 Farmington
1863 discontinued
Note:
George N. Packer was supposedly a minister for 50 years. He performed a wedding in Marshfield PA in
1868 as a Methodist Episcopal minister, and so he apparently continued to
function as a local pastor. The 1872,73
journals of the Central New York Conference lists him as a local pastor living
in Wellsboro. The 1887 journal of the Genesee Conference lists him as a local
pastor living in Wellsboro. He lived in Wellsboro and Corning NY and is the
author the 1893 book Our Calendar: The
Julian Calendar and Its Errors. He
is noted for convincing the United States that the correct date to celebrate
the 400th anniversary of the landing of Columbus on October 12, 1492
(old style) would be October 21, 1892 – and so it was done!
PARCELLS,
DAVID ALBERT.
Born:
4-6-1855 Oramel NY married:
Mary T. Dennis (10/16/1878)
Died: 7-6-1924
Osceola PA obit:
Genesee Conference 1936, 130
1878 license, Genesee Conference
1879 admitted on trial
1881 ordained deacon
Interment:
Champlin Cemetery, Westfield PA
Obit:
Genesee Conference 1924, 151
East Ashford
Custer City
Duke Center
Fairpoint
Westfield
North Cohocton
Franklinville
East Aurora and
Springbrook
Buffalo St. Mark’s
Buffalo Woodside
Buffalo South Park
Shinglehouse
Westfield
Marilla
Sanborn
1923 retired
1923-24 Osceola
Note:
PARKHURST,
FREDERICK SHREWSBURY
Born:
9-23-1855 Manchester, England married: Minnie Latham
Died:
4-4-1953 Franklinville NY obit: Genesee Conference
1944, 123
1880 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference
1882 ordained deacon, Genesee Conference
ordained
elder, Genesee Conference
Interment:
Mount Prospect Cemetery, Franklinville NY
Obit:
Genesee Conference 1953, 359
1880-83 Foster Brook
1883-86 Eldred
1886-89 Bolivar
1889-90 Canisteo
1890-95 Rochester Frank Street
1895-96 Lima
1896-98 Rochester North Avenue
1898-03 Le Roy
1903-06 Medina
1906-09 Niagara Falls St. Paul’s
1909-10 Wellsboro
1910-12 Hornell Spencer
1912-16 Buffalo Kenmore
1916 retired
PATTYSON,
WESLEY ARMSTRONG VICTOR EMMANUEL
Born:
9-8-1859 Newboro, Ontario married: Frances E.
Wilson
Died:
3-25-1914 Galeton PA obit:
Genesee Conference 1936, 130
1878 license to preach
1879 admitted on trial, Toronto Conference of the
Methodist Church of Canada
ordained
deacon, Genesee Conference
ordained
elder, Genesee Conference
Interment:
Mount Albion Cemetery, Albion NY
Obit:
Genesee Conference 1914, 136
1879-80 Omenna
1880-81 Lindsay
1881-82 Cannington
1882-83 Canton
1883-84 Newcastle
1884-85 Markham
1885-86 Collingwood
1886-90 Davenport
1890-91 Penetanguishine
1891 transfer to Genesee Conference
1891-95 North Tonawanda Central
1895-03 Buffalo Seneca Street
1903-06 Buffalo Grace
1906-08 Albion
1908-10 Webster
1910-11 Galeton
and Sunderlinville
Note:
W.A.V.E. Pattyson is the son of Rev. William Montgomery Pattyson (1823-1890)
and a nephew of Rev. David Creighton McDowell (1823-1898), both of the
Methodist Church of Canada.
PEACOCK,
ISAAC RAYMOND
Born:
9-28-1884 Middleport NY married: Sadie F.
_____
Died: obit:
1909 license to preach
1910 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference
ordained
deacon, Genesee Conference
ordained
elder, Genesee Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1909-11 Genesee
and Gold
1935-36 Gaines
1936-38 Keeneyville
– Little Marsh
…
1949 located
Note:
I.R. Peacock served as a supply preacher,
PEET,
WILBUR OCTAVUS
Born:
9-9-1850 West Webster NY married: Eliza Jane
Frackelton
Died:
2-6-1918 obit:
Genesee Conference 1919, 144
1871 license to preach
1874 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference
1876 ordained deacon, Genesee Conference
ordained
elder, Genesee Conference
Interment:
Webster Rural Cemetery, Webster NY
Obit:
Genesee Conference 1918, 119
1874-75 Pendleton
1875-76 Hollet
1876-77 LaSalle
1877 located
1877 “transfer” to Illinois
Conference
1877-79 Petersnurgh
1879 located
1880 “transfer” to Genesee Conference
1880-83 Portage and Wiscoy
1883-84 Mt. Morris
1884-87 Pike and East Pike
1887-89 Livonia
1889-90 Churchville
1890 transfer to Central New York
Conference
1890 transfer to Genesee Conference
1891-95 Wayland
1895-00 Westfield
1900-02 Somerset
1902-08 Walworth
1908-09 Warsaw
1909-10 West Webster
1910 retired
PERO,
WINFRED CALVIN
Born:
4-22-1887 married:
Clara Perham [1918]
Died:
5-5-1965 obit:
Western New York Conference 1972, 299
1913 license
1918 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference
1921 ordained deacon, Genesee Conference
ordained
elder
Interment:
Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Houghton NY
Obit:
Western New York Conference 1965, 547
1916-17 Wiscoy
1917-18 Farmersville station
1918-20 Short Tract
1920-21 Bradford
1921-22 Lawrenceville
1922-25 Cameron and Cameron Mills
1925-28 Indian Falls
1928-32 Rushford
1932-35 Andover
1935-38 Derrick City and Limestone
1938-39 Troupsburg and Woodhull
1939-40 Warrens Corners and East Wilson
1940-41 Ulysses
and Gold
1941-52 located
1952 re-admitted
1952 retired
Note:
Winfred C. Pero is the father of Rev. Richard W. Pero (1921-1989) of the North
Central New York Conference.
PERRY,
J.H.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Genesee Conference
Interment:
Obit:
Genesee Conference
1878-79 Chatham
PHILLIPS,
T.I.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
license
to preach, Central New York Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1917-18 East
Smithfield and Big Pond
Note:
T.I. Phillips served as a supply pastor.
He is otherwise unknown.
PILBEAM,
HENRY
Born:
2-22-1815 Sussex England married: Sophronia
Almeda Browning
Died:
11-7-1887 Belle Plaine IA obit: Upper Iowa
Conference 1915, 527
1839 admitted on trial, Oneida Conference
Interment:
Oak Hill Cemetery, Belle Plaine IA
Obit:
Upper Iowa Conference 1888, 53
1841-42 Pittston
1842-43 Mehoopany
1843-44 Dundaff
1854 located to care for his parents
1856 moved to Illinois
1860 “transfer” to Upper Iowa
Conference
1864- West Irving
PINDAR,
WILLIAM E.
Born:
11-3-1814 Portsmouth NH married: Maria
Rice
Died:
12-3-1876 Lima NY obit: Genesee Conference
1885, 118
1840 admitted on trial, Maine Conference
1845 ordained deacon, Genesee Conference
ordained
elder, East Genesee Conference
Interment:
Obit:
Genesee Conference 1877, 59
1841 discontinued
1842 “transfer” to Genesee Conference
1848 charter member of East Genesee
Conference
1848-49 Wellsburg
1840-51 Enfield
1851-52 Hammondsville
1852-53 Thurston
1853-55 Avoca
1855-56 Burlington
1856-58 Big Flats
1858-60 Harmonyville and Prattsburg
1860-62 Andover
1862-64 Forksville
1864-65 Knoxville
1865-66 Baldwin
1866-67 Beaver Dams
1867-68 Italy Hollow
1868-69 Kanona
1869-72 retired [on leave?]
1872 transfer to Central New York
Conference by change of boundaries
1876 transfer to Genesee Conference
by change of boundaries
PITT,
SAMUEL
Born:
2-16-1810 Dorset England married:
Mary Phillips Dewey
Died:
6-12-1889 Correctionville IA obit:
[1815 – 1881]
1836 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference
Interment:
Correctionville Cemetery, Correctionville IA
Obit:
1837 discontinued
1837-38 Sinnemahoning
1839 readmitted
1839-40 Potter
mission [Coudersport]
AZvoca
1842 discontinued
Note:
Samuel Pitt is the father of Rev. William Ralph Pitt Sr. (1834-1917),
affiliation unknown. Samuel Pitt moved
from New York to Pennsylvania to Michigan to Iowa. Conable’s 1876 History of the Genesee Conference
gives several interesting Samuel Pitt anecdotes. He was considered a little eccentric. Even though he had been (agreeably)
discontinued in 1837 because he felt stifled by rules, he volunteered to supply
the new and wide-open Sinnemahoning circuit.
Page 415 of Conable’s History
states: “Samuel Pitt possessed a vigorous mind, a lively imagination, and a
memory well stored with general information. He was well acquainted with the
Bible and English Methodism. In his preaching he was always interesting, his
illustrations were apt, and at tunes in his discourses there were passages of
peculiar grandeur and power. On the other hand occasionally his preaching might
have been pronounced queer enough. He had a musical voice, and was a charming
singer. It is believed he is still a local preacher and living in Michigan.”
PITTMAN,
HORACE RAY
Born:
8-10-1888 Onondaga County NY married: Florence Louise
Calkins
Died:
6-24-1972 Herkimer NY obit: Central
New York Conference 1980, 323
1928 admitted on trial, Central New York
Conference
1932 ordained deacon, Central New York Conference
ordained
elder
Interment:
Woodlawn Cemetery, Elmira NY
Obit:
Central New York Conference 1973,169
1928-29 North
Towanda and Luther’s Mills
1929-31 Millport and Pine Valley
1931-36 Pultneyville
1936-43 Red Creek and Westbury
1943-47 Dundee and Starkey
1947-51 Waterloo
1951-57 Newton Creek parish
1957 retired
Note:
Horace R. Pittman is the son of Eli Pittman (1862-1946) on the Central New York
Conference and a brother to W. Charles Pittman.
PITTMAN,
W. CHARLES
Born:
1-2-1887 Syracuse NY married:
Hattie A. Blakeslee
Died:
4-25-1963 obit:
Central New York Conference 1965, 185
1919 admitted on trial, Central New York
Conference
1921 ordained deacon, Central New York Conference
ordained
elder
Interment:
Evergreen Cemetery, Cazenovia NY
Obit:
Central New York Conference 1963, 161
1919-20 Daggett
1920-23 Caton
1923-26 Fair Haven
1926-35 McGraw
1935-40 Marcellus and Camillus
1940-43 Williamson
1943-48 Elmira Westside
1948- Tulley and Vesper
Note:
W. Charles Pittman is the son of Eli Pittman (1862-1946) of The Central New
York Conference and a brother to Horace R. Pittman.
PITTS,
DAVID LEWIS
Born:
7-6-1850 Gibson NY married:
Mary Ann Evans
Died:
2-12-1935 obit:
Genesee Conference 1924, 166
married2:
Mrs. Mary A. Martin Whitmarsh [1925]
1888 license to preach obit2: Genesee
Conference 1950, 562
1889 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference
1891 ordained deacon, Genesee Conference
ordained
elder, Genesee Conference
Interment:
Arbon Cemetery, Blossburg PA
Obit:
Genesee Conference 1935, 769
1888-90 Nelson
1890-91 South Addison
1891-94 Covington
1894-97 Campbell
1897-99 Scio
1899-00 Rushford
1900-04 Hammondsport
1904-08 Painted Post
1908-11 Westfield
Note:
The second Mrs. Pitts (nee Martin) was the widow of a Mr. James B. Whitmarsh
(1858-1916).
PLACE,
DANIEL NELSON
Born:
8-16-1904 married:
Esther Duff
Died:
4-7-1953 obit:
Western New York Conference 1997, 338
1924 license
1926 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference
Interment:
Corwin Cemetery, Newfane NY
Obit:
Genesee Conference 1953, 360
1931-32 Depew
1932-34 Keeneyville
– Niles Valley
1934-35 Lawrenceville
1935-36 student
1935-36 West
Livingston NJ
1936-39 Lawrenceville
1939-42 Olean – Allegany
1942-45 chaplain, US Army
1945-53 Newfane - Olcott
PLATT,
WARD DELOS
Born:
4-21-1853 Dayton NY married:
Mary Jane Barnard
Died:
5-30-1916 Brandywine Summit PA obit: Genesee
Conference 1907, 153
1874 license to preach
1875 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference
1877 ordained deacon, Genesee Conference
ordained
elder, Genesee Conference
Interment:
Forest Lawn Cemetery, Buffalo NY
Obit:
Genesee Conference 1916, 128
1875-79 Eden and North Evans
1879-81 East Aurora
1881-84 Churchville
1884-86 Lawrenceville and Lindley
1886-90 Naples
1890-93 Hornellsville Park
1893-98 Rochester Monroe Avenue
1898-99 Rochester Epworth and West Avenue
1899-02 Buffalo Plymouth
1902-07 superintendent, Buffalo District
1907-11 secretary, Board of Home Missions and
Church Extension
PLUMLEY,
ALBERT
Born:
1-5-1818 Bennington NY married: Nancy
Wheeler Cox [6/16/1843]
Died:6-28-1888 Sweden Center NY obit: [1816-1912]
1843 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference
1845 ordained deacon, Genesee Conference
ordained
elder
Interment:
Forest Avenue Cemetery, Angola NY
Obit:
Genesee Conference 1888, 122
1843-44 Avoca
1844-45 Potter
mission [Coudersport]
1845-46
Seneca
1846-48 Bethel
1848 charter member of East Genesee
Conference
1848-50 Bellona
1850-51 Ridge
1851053 Nunda
1853-54 Victor
1854-55 Honeoye Falls
1855 transfer to Genesee Conference
1855-57 Elba
1857-58 West Carlton
1858-59 Caryville
1859-60 Somerset
1860-61 Centerville and Eagle Village
1861-62 Java
1862-63 Gainesville
1863-65 Boston and West Falls
1865-67 Wales
1867-69 Darien
1869-71 Asnury and Wesley
1871-73 Aurora
1873-76 Evans and Brant
1876-79 Pavilion
1879-80 South Byron
1880-81 Springwater
1881-82 Lakeside and Ontario
1882-84 West Webster
1884-86 La Salle
1886-88 Sweden NY
POLAND,
FREDERICK MILTON
Born:
9-16-1872 Montville ME married: Belle
Brown Palmer [11/1/1893]
Died:
1-26-1951 Penney Farms FL obit: Genesee
Conference 1963, 993
1909 license
1918 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference
1920 ordained deacon, Genesee Conference
ordained
elder
Interment:
Pittsfiled Village Cemetery, Pittsfield ME
Obit:
Genesee Conference 1951, 777
1909-11 Covington
1911-13 West Almond
1913-15 South Dansville
1915-20 Nelson
1920-23 Jasper
1923-25 Whitesville
1925-28 Short Tract
1928-30 Gainesville
1930-34 Birdsall
1934- Short Tract
Note:
The birth year of Mrs. Poland, not given in her conference obituary, is 1873.
PORTER,
GEORGE JOHN
Born:
6-16-1866 Wellsville NY married:
Gertrude Witherell [1/1/1896]
Died:
4-8-1945 Gaines PA obit:
Genesee Conference 1920, 102
1894 license
1900 admitted on trial, Michigan Conference
1902 ordained deacon, Michigan Conference
ordained
elder
Interment:
Wildwood Cemetery. Salamanca NY
Obit:
Genesee Conference 1945, 320
1894-95 Killbuck and Carrrolton
1895-98 Sweden
Valley PA,
Genesee Conference
1898-99 Wales
1899-00 Mackinaw City
1900-01 Levering
1901-03 Lisbon and Edgerton
1903-04 Ravenna
1904-07 on leave
1907-08 Stannards and Shongo, Genesee
Conference
1908 transfer to Genesee Conference
1908-09 Stannards and Shongo
1909-11 Farmersville
1911-12 Centerville
1912-15 Limestone
1915-17 Short Tract
1917-18 Machias
1918-20 Cameron
1920-21 Woodhull
1921-22 Keeneyville
1922-25 Gaines
1925-26 East
Charleston
1926 retired
POST,
WOODRUFF
Born:
12-6-1820 Toronto Canada married: Permelia
Ann Draper (5/16/1850)
Died:
3-4-1905 Olean NY obit: Genesee Conference
1907, 157
Interment:
Clifton Springs Village Cemetery, Clifton Springs NY
Obit:
Genesee Conference 1906, 132
1857-58 Italy Hill
1858-59 Nunda Station
1859-62 Almond
1862-64 Wayland
1864-65 Andover
1865-67 Sparta
1867-72 on leave
1872-73 Pittsford
1863-74 Ontario
1874-75 Byron
1875-77 on leave
1877-78 Chatham
1878-79 Gaines
1879-81 Lockport Third – Chestnut Street
1881-83 Ceres
1883- Scio
Note:
Mrs. Post is the daughter of Gideon Draper.
POTTER,
HOMER B.
Born:
5-4-1878 Corry PA married: Eva Eagles [1907]
Died:
1-20-1960 Wayland NY obit: Western
New York Conference
1899 license
1901 admitted on trial, Erie Conference
1903 ordained deacon, New England Conference
ordained
elder
Interment:
Wayland Village Cemetery, Wayland NY
Obit:
Genesee Conference 1960, 183
1899-01 Reno
1901-02 Sherrett and Rimerto
1902-03 West Hickory
1903-07 student, Boston University School of
Theology
1903
transfer to New England Conference (apparently, for ordination)
1903
transfer to Erie Conference
1907-08 Spartanburg
1908-10 Edinboro
1910-14 Union City
1914-18 Brookville
1918-19 chaplain, U.S. Army
1919-21 Westfield
1921-26 Erie Simpson
1926 transfer to Central New York
Conference
1926-28 Syracuse Furman Street
1928 transfer to Genesee Conference
1928-33 Hornell Park
1933-36 Coudersport
and Sweden Valley
1936- Williamsville
POTTER,
WILLIAM
Born:
10-5-1818 Potter NY married:
Theresa H. Barse
Died:
2-22-1880 Penn Yan NY obit: Genesee
Conference 1882, 107
1847 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference
ordained
deacon, East Genesee Conference
ordained
elder, East Genesee Conference
Interment:
Lakeview Cemetery, Penn Yan NY
Obit:
Genesee Conference 1880, 60
1848 charter member of East Genesee
Conference
1848-50 Knoxville
1850-52 West Addison
1852-53 Cohocton
1853-54 Jeruasalem and Italy Hill
1854-55 Hopewell
1855-57 Avoca
1857-59 Townsendville
1859-60 Orange
1860-63 Pultneyville
1863-65 Lawrenceville
1865-67 Avoca
1867-69 Wayne
1869 transfer to Wilmington
Conference
1872 transfer to Genesee Conference
POWELL,
JOHN
Born:
9-18-1815 Pembroke, Wales married: Mary Ann
Sproston
Died:
5-27-1878 Hopewell Center NY obit: Central New York
Conference 1893, 110
1838 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference
1844 ordained deacon, East Genesee Conference
ordained
elder, East Genesee Conference
Interment:
Chapman Cemetery, Hopewell Center NY
Obit:
Genesee Conference 1878, 67
1840 discontinued
1842 re-admitted, Genesee Conference
1848 charter member of East Genesee
Conference
1848-49 Potter
1849-50 Lodi and Townsendville
1850-51 Jacksonville
1851-52 Townsendville and Covert
1852-54 Springfield
1854-55 Frenchtown
1855-57 Canton
1857-58 Mainesburg
1858-60 Chatham
1860-62 Castleton and Hopewell
1862-63 Italy Hollw
1863-65 Jasper
1865-68 South Sodus
1868 retired
1872 transfer to Central New York
Conference by change of boundaries
1876 transfer to Genesee Conference
by change of boundaries
PRATT,
EDWARD B.
Born:
1822 married:
Laura _____
Died:
1855 obit:
[1812 – 1891]
1846 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference
1848 ordained deacon, Genesee Conference
ordained
elder
Interment:
Podonque Cemetery, Rushford NY
Obit:
1846-47 Franklinville
1847-48 Coudersport
1848-50 Ceres
1850-51 Smethport
1851 located
PUTNAM,
JONATHAN W.
Born:
7-31-1815 Leyden NY married:
Caroline Matilda Sanford
Died:
9-9-1871 Middlesex NY obit:
[4/5/1825 – 1/27/1921]
1846 admitted on trial, Rock River Conference
1848 ordained deacon, Wisconsin Conference
ordained
elder, East Genesee Conference
Interment:
Hall Venter Cemetery, Wayne County NY
Obit:
Central New York Conference 1872, 48
1848 charter member of Wisconsin
Conference
1857 transfer to East Genesee
Conference
1857-58 East Palmyra
1858-60 Tyrone
1860-61 Catherine
1861-62 Southport
1862-64 Jackson
1864-66 Canton
1866-68 Prattsburg
1868-70 Dresden
1870-72 Middlesex (ending 9/9/1871)
PREMRU,
EMIL A.
Born:
10-26-1901 Trieste married:
Lillian Edith Frye
Died:
9-30-1989 obit:
Central New York Conference 1980, 323
1929 admitted on trial, Central New York
Conference
1932 ordained deacon, Central New York Conference
ordained
elder
Interment:
Obit:
North Central New York Conference 1990, 342
1928-29 Webb Mills
1929-34 Daggett
1933-34 Webb
Mills
1934-38 Sterling and Martville
1938-45 Freeville
1938-39 McLean
1839-40 West
Dryden
1945-52 Gorham and Stanley
1952-67 Cincinnatus and Taylor Center
1952-57 Brackle
1957-67 Union
Valley
1967 retired
REESE, WILLIAM HENRY
Born:
2-3-1844 Clifton Springs NY married: Ella Parsell
Died:
12-20-1932 Los Angeles CA obit: Genesee
Conference 1935, 779
1870 license to preach
1874 admitted on trial, Northern New York
Conference
1876 ordained deacon, Northern New York
Conference
Interment:
Roosevelt Memorial Park, Gardena CA
Obit:
Genesee Conference 1933, 315
1875-78 Clinton
1878-81 Rome
1881-84 Ilion
1884-87 Watertown
1887 transfer
to St. Louis Conference
1887-92 Kansas
City Dundee Place
1892 transfer
to Wyoming Conference
1892-93 Wilkes-Barre
Central
1893 transfer
to Genesee Conference
1893-95 principal,
Genesee Wesleyan Seminary
1895-00 Coudersport
1900-01 Lockport
1901-05 Corning
First
1905-09 Wellsboro
1909-11 Medina
REQUA,
JAMES DIXON
Born:
7-2-1829 Tarrytown NY married:
Mary E. Smith [1852]
Died:
11-26-1905 Clifton Springs NY obit: [d.
8/4/1856]
married2:
Nancy Louis Miner [1856]
1854 admitted on trial, Wisconsin Conference obit2: Wisconsin Conference
1864, 29
1856 ordained deacon, Wisconsin Conference married3: Mary Grace Davis
[1866]
ordained
elder, Wisconsin Conference obit3:
Genesee Conference 1905, 155
Interment:
Hollywood Forever Cemetery, Hollywood CA
Obit:
Genesee Conference 1906, 136
1862-66 located
1866 re-admitted to Wisconsin
Conference
1868 transfer to East Genesee
Conference
1872 transfer to Western New York
Conference by change of boundaries
1876 transfer to Genesee Conference
by change of boundaries
1880 transfer to Central New York
Conference by change of boundaries
RHINEVAULT,
SEYMOUR C.
Born:
9-11-1815 Dutchess County NY married: Mary Crandall
[1835]
Died:
6-17-1890 Mansfield PA obit:
[2/15/1815 – 6/1/1871]
married2:
Margaret S. Orvis
1855 admitted on trial, East Genesee Conference obit2: Genesee Conference 1924, 173
1857 ordained deacon, East Genesee Conference
ordained
elder, East Genesee Conference
Interment:
Mainesburg Cemetery, Mainesburg PA
Obit:
Genesee Conference 1890, 149
1855-56 Towlesville
1856-58 Thurston
1858-59 Orange
1859-61 Woodhull
1861 located
1869-71 Mainesburg
1871 re-admitted
1871-72 Monroeton
1872 transfer to Central New York
Conference by change of boundaries
1876 transfer to Genesee Conference
by change of boundaries
Note: The dates for the second Mrs. Rhinevault, not
given in her conference obituary, are 7/7/1835 – 2/28/1922.
RICE,
MILTON HARMON
Born:
8-25-1828 Seneca NY married:
Anna Elizabeth Beebe [1855]
Died:
11-19-1868 Batavia NY obit: Genesee
Conference 1908, 133
license,
Genesee Conference
admitted
on trial, Genesee Conference
ordained
deacon, Genesee Conference
ordained
elder
Interment:
Batavia Cemetery, Batavia NY
Obit:
Genesee Conference 1869, 33
1855 “admitted” to Genesee
Conference, but it was full and there was no appointment
1855 “transfer” to Indiana Conference
1855-58 serving in Indiana Conference
1858 “readmitted”
1858-60 Coudersport
1860-62 Portville
1862-64 Gowanda
1864-67 Rushford
1867-68 Warsaw
1868 on leave for health reasons
ROBERTS,
JAMES A.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Central New York Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1882-84 East
Smithfield
ROBERTS,
JAMES JOEL
Born: 9-5-1820
Pike NY married:
Emily Metcalf
Died:
3-14-1873 Lincoln NE obit:
married2:
Mrs. Minerva Estella Bullock Burr
1853 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference obit2: [12/5/1834 – 3/2/1920]
1855 ordained deacon, Genesee Conference
ordained
elder
Interment:
Wyuka Cemetery, Lincoln NE
Obit:
Genesee Conference
1862-64 Coudersport
1867 transfer to Nebraska Conference
Note:
James J. Roberts is the son of local preacher Rev. Joel Roberts (1798-1878) of
the Genesee Conference. A biographical
sketch of J.J. Roberts appears in Sterling’s 1907 Illustrated History of Nebraska, volume 1, page 352. The second Mrs. Roberts (nee Bullock) was the
widow of a Mr. Allen Burr.
ROBINSON,
JOHN
Born:
8-14-1802 County Wicklow, Ireland married: Mrs. Mary Moore Ninde
Died:
1-9-1868 Starkey NY obit:
Central New York Conference
married2:
Almira E. Chappel
1832 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference obit2: Central New York Conference
1888, 98
1834 ordained deacon, Genesee Conference
ordained
elder, Genesee Conference
Interment:
South Sodus Cemetery, Sodus NY
Obit:
East Genesee Conference 1868, 26
1848 charter member of East Genesee
Conference
1848-49 Henrietta
1849-50 Sodus
1850-51 Springwater and Canadice
1851-52 Hector
1852-53 Jacksonville
1853-55 Junius
1855-57 on leave
1857-58 Alton
1858-59 Marion
1859-61 Baldwin
1861-62 Thurston
1862-63 Avoca
1863-64 Caton
1864-65 Pine
Creek
1865-67 Jackson
1867 retired
Note:
John Robinson is the son of Rev. William Robinson (1768–1851), affiliation
unknown. The first Mrs. Robinson (nee Moore) was the widow of a Mr. Ninde.
ROGERS,
HOY G.
Born:
4-24-1888 Chesterville OH married: Mary Pearl
Hogue
Died:
10-18-1963 Hollywood FL obit: Central New
York Conference 1962, 158
1910 license, North East Ohio Conference
Interment:
Greenwood Cemetery. Orlando FL
Obit:
Central New York Conference 1964, 159
1913 “transfer” to Rock River
Conference
1915 “transfer” to Wisconsin
Conference
1919 located
1936 “transfer” to Central New York
Conference
1936-39 Caton
1939-43 Bethel, Ira
1943-45 Spring Lake
1945-47 Onondaga Hill
1947-51 Srockbrifge
1951-53 Mecklenberg, Enfield, Kennedys,
Cayutaville
1953-59 North
Towanda, Durell
1959
retired
Note:
H. G. Rogers served as a supply preacher.
He is otherwise unknown.
ROGERS,
LEWIS L.
Born:
1-7-1816 Long Island City NY married: Hannah G. Graham
Died:
5-8-1887 Fenton MI obit:
[1/6/1820 - ?]
1844 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference
1846 ordained deacon, Genesee Conference
ordained
elder, East Genesee Conference
Interment:
Oakwood Cemetery, Fenton MI
Obit:
1848 charter member of East Genesee
Conference
1848-49 Burlington
1849-50 Orange
1850-52 Whitesville
1852-54 Jasper
1854-56 Mansfield
1856-57 Granger
1857-58 Canisyeo
1858-59 Whitesville
1859-61 Nunda
1861-62 Conesus
1862-63 Canaseraga
1863 withdrew
ROGERS,
LOWELL LINCOLN
Born:
5-14-1865 Willing NY married:
Jessie Ruth Coe
Died:
4-6-1944 obit:
Genesee Conference 1927, 801
married2:
Ida Louise Shaver [1930]
1888 license to preach obit2: Genesee Conference
1958, 648
1892 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference
1894 ordained deacon, Genesee Conference
ordained
elder, Genesee Conference
Interment:
Boxwood Cemetery, Medina NY
Obit:
Genesee Conference 1944, 115
1892-95 Youngstown, Porter Center and Fillmore
1895-97 Cambria
1897-00 Wilson and Fillmore (plus first part
of 1900-01)
1900-01 Coudersport (last part)
1901-05 Rochester Hedding
1905-08 Silver Springs
1908-13 Canisteo
1913-19 superintendent, Corning District
1919-21 Batavia
1921-29 Medina
1929-33 Webster
1933-37 Barker
1937 retired
Note:
The maiden name of the first Mrs. Rogers is also given as Ruth Jessie Coe. The dates for the second Mrs. Rogers, not
given in her conference obituary are 1866 – 11/1/1957.
ROSA,
EDWARD DAVID
Born:
1832 NY married:
Letitia Coke
Died:
5-6-1873 Tioga County PA obit: [1831 –
5/27/1859]
married2:
Sarah Gilbert Rowland
1852 admitted on trial, East Genesee Conference obit2: [8/17/1836 – 2/14/1910]
1854 ordained deacon, East Genesee Conference
ordained
elder, East Genesee Conference
Interment:
Woodlawn Cemetery, Wellsville NY
Obit:
1852-53 Chatham
1853-54 Troy
1854-55 Barrington
1855-57 Woodhull
1857-58 Angelica
1858-60 Wellsville
1860-62 Rogersville
1862-63 East
Smithfield
1863 transfer to Upper Iowa
Conference
1868 located
ROSEKRANS,
CLYDE ALDEN
Born:
7-31-1893 Lowman NY married: Eva
Cornelius
Died:
3-1-1973 Newark NY obit:
Central New York Conference 1952, 132
1930 admitted on trial, Central New York
Conference
1933 ordained deacon, Central New York Conference
ordained
elder
Interment:
Scotchtown Cemetery, Erin NY
Obit:
Central New York Conference 1973, 171
1930-31 Burdett and Reynoldsville
1931-33 Millport, Pine Valley and
Sullivanville
1933-37 Millerton
and Jackson Center
1937-41 Phelps
1937-38 Fairville
1941-44 Union Springs and Cayuga
1944-51 Syracuse Brown Memorial
1951-53 North Rose
1953-58 Warners and Belle Isle
1958 retired
ROSENGRANT,
EMORY JUDSON
Born:
2-10-1863 Jenningsville PA married: Evalena
Cassada
Died:
1-24-1955 Sayre PA obit:
Genesee Conference 1931, 709
married2:
Mrs. Edna Rugg Page [1933]
1888 license obit2:
[1872-1951]
1890 admitted on trial, Central New York
Conference
1892 ordained deacon, Central New York Conference
ordained
elder
Interment:
North Flat Cemetery, Laceyville PA
Obit:
Genesee Conference 1956, 151
1889-91 East
Troy
1891-94 Canton
1894-99 Mansfield
1899-03 Towanda
1903-04 Cazenovia
1904-06 Ithaca State Street
1906-15 Auburn First
1915 transfer to Genesee Conference
1915-19 Riverside
1919-25 superintendent, Corning District
1915-29 Rochester Corn Hill
1929-31 conference evangelist
1931 retired
Note:
E. Judson Rosengrant is the father of Mary Rosengrant Foley (1890-1972), wife
of Walter Brooks Foley – which couple were missionaries in India and the
Philippines. The second Mrs. Rosengrant
(nee Rugg) was the widow of a Mr. Melvin E. Page.
ROSS,
JAMES HAMILTON
Born:
9-3-1831 Burlington PA married:
Roselia Gordon Dolph
Died:
10-9-1912 Dryden NY obit:
Central New York Conference 1905, 145
1853 license to exhort
1854 license to preach
1855 admitted on trial, East Genesee Conference
1858 ordained deacon, East Genesee Conference
1860 ordained elder, East Genesee Conference
Interment:
Green Hills Cemetery, Dryden NY
Obit:
Central New York Conference 1913, 174
1855-56 Pine
Creek
1856-57 Whitesville
1857-58 Charleston
1858-60 Mainesburg
1860-61 Canton
1861-63 Monroeton
1863-64 Catherine
1864-65 Painted Post
1865-67 Savona
1867 transfer to Michigan Conference
1867-69 Grand Rapids Bridge Street
1869-72 Hastings
1872-74 Parma
1874-77 Burlington
1877-82 on leave
1882-86 located
1886 “transfer” to Central New York
Conference
1886-89 Ludlowville
1889-91 Dryden
1891-93 Van Etten
1893-01 on leave
1901 retired
ROWE,
EDMUND THOMAS.
Born:
1-3-1885 Scotland married: Violet Mahala
Died:
4-24-1967 obit:
Western New York Conference 1977, 280
1916 license
admitted
on trial, Genesee Conference
ordained
deacon, Genesee Conference
ordained
elder
Interment:
Genesee Cemetery, Genesee PA
Obit:
Western New York Conference 1967, 1128
1929-30 Genesee and Stannards
1930 “transfer” to Genesee Conference
of the Methodist Episcopal Church
1930-32 Genesee
and
Stannards
1932-37 Kendall and Hulbertson
1937-44 Elkland
and Osceola
1939-40 Nelson and Tompkins (part year)
1944-50 Warsaw
1950-57 Fillmore and Hume
1957 retired
ROWLEY,
FRANK HULBUT
Born:
3-5-1857 Keeneyville PA married: Mary
Alice Gleason
Died:
10-24-1927 Barker NY obit:
Genesee Conference 1930, 515
1888 license to preach
1890 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference
1892 ordained deacon, Genesee Conference
ordained
elder, Genesee Conference
Interment:
Middlebury Union Cemetery, Middlebury PA
Obit:
Genesee Conference 1928, 111
1889-91 Covington
and Lamb’s Creek
1891-96 Troupsburg
1896-99 Cameron
1899-01 Knoxville
1901-04 Canaseraga
1904-06 Dalton and Grove
1906-08 South Royalton
1908-11 Franklinville
Note:
The birthdate for Mrs. Rowley, not given in the conference obituary, is
6/26/1859.
RUMSEY,
WILLIAM HENRY
Born:
3-1-1841 Sullivan twp, Tioga County PA married: Lydia Elizabeth Smith
Died:
1-8-1877 Sullivan twp, Tioga County PA obit: [1/26/1851 – 1/20/1916]
1868 admitted on trial, East Genesee Conference
1871 ordained deacon, East Genesee Conference
ordained
elder, Central New York Conference
Interment:
Mainesburg Cemetery, Mainesburg PA
Obit:
1868-69 Dushore
1869-71 Farmington
1871-72 Chatham
1872 transfer to Central New York
Conference by change of boundaries
1876 transfer to Genesee Conference
by change of boundaries
RUNNER,
WILLIAM ALEXANDER.
Born:
9-5-1821 Howard PA married:
Martha R. Chapman
Died:
3-27-1895 Mt. Morris NY obit: Genesee
Conference 1913, 148
1850 admitted on trial, East Genesee Conference
1852 ordained deacon, East Genesee Conference
ordained
elder, East Genesee Conference
Interment:
Newark Cemetery, Newark NY
Obit:
Genesee Conference 1895, 126
1850-52 Ulysses
1852-53 Brookfield
1853-54 Ridge
1854-58 retired [on leave?]
1858-59 East Palmyra
1859-61 Barrington
1861-63 Henrietta
1863-65 Sparta
1865-66 Bethel and Voaks
1866-67 Italy Hollow
1867-72 retired [on leave?]
1872 transfer to Genesee Conference
by change of boundaries
SANDMEYER,
JOHN HENRY
Born:
10-12-1880 Chicago IL married:
Almira Mae Stowell
Died:
1-26-1956 Tonawanda NY obit:
Genesee Conference 1962, 715
1899 license to preach
1906 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference
1908 ordained deacon, Genesee Conference
ordained
elder, Genesee Conference
Interment:
Acacia Park Cemetery, North Tonawanda NY
Obit:
Genesee Conference 1957, 393
1903-04 Boscobel (plus first part of 1904-05)
1904-05 Covington (last part)
1905-06 Almond
1906-08 Lindley and Presho
1908-11 Jasper
Note:
The birthdate for Mrs. Sandmeyer, not given in her conference obituary, is
4/9/1887.
SAUNDERS,
ROY ELISHA
Born:
11-7-1885 Bothwell, Ontario married: Nellie Louise
Elliott
Died:
9-26-1939 obit:
[6/18/1884 – 4/16/1927]
1901 license to preach
1909 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference
ordained
deacon, Genesee Conference
ordained
elder, Genesee Conference
Interment:
Strathroy Municipal Cemetery, Strathroy Ontario
Obit:
1901-02 assistant, Fullerton Ontario
1902-03 Ladova IA
1903-04 Walnut IA
1904-05 Little
Marsh
1907-11 Woodhull
SAYRE,
JOHN
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Genesee Conference
1821 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference
1823 ordained deacon, Genesee Conference
1925 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
Genesee Conference
1820-21 Tioga
1821-22 Wyoming
1822-23 Spencer
1823-24 Broome
1824-25 Courtland
1825-26 Marcellus and Manlius
1826-27 Fabius
1827-28 Canaan
1828-29 Wyalusing
1829 charter member of Oneida
Conference
1829-30 Oswego
1830 located
SCHAFF,
LESTER
Born:
9-16-1906 Rifton NY married:
Anna Jeanette Aalfs (12/25/1933)
Died:
7-10-1989 Geneva NY obit:
Central New York Conference
1930 admitted on trial, Central New York
Conference
1934 ordained deacon, Central New York Conference
ordained
elder
Interment:
Obit:
North Central New York Conference 1990, 344
1930-32 student
1932-36 Rockwell and Cardiff
1936-40 Clifton Springs
1940-43 Mansfield
1943-50 Elmira First
1950-56 superintendent, Elmira District
1956- Syracuse Lafayette Avenue
SCHOTT,
ALBERT HENRY
Born:
2-10-1900 Hazleton PA married:
Margaret Kerwin
Died:
3-21-1973 Spencerport NY obit: Western
New York Conference 1983, 318
license
admitted
on trial, Genesee Conference
ordained
deacon, Genesee Conference
ordained
elder
Interment:
Fairfield Cemetery, Spencerport NY
Obit:
Western New York Conference 1973, 231
1952-55 Holley – Clarendon
1955-56 Lockport Clinton Street
1956-62 Lawrenceville
– Tioga – Tioga Junction
1962- Friendship
SCRIMSHAW,
ALFRED
Born:
1865 married:
Henrietta _____
Died:
1943 obit:
[1867-1951]
Interment:
Lakeside Memorial Park Cemetery, Hamburg NY
Obit:
1894-95 Keeneyville
Note:
Alfred Scrimshaw was a Baptist pastor served as a supply pastor in the Genesee
Conference. He is the father of Clifford
Alfred Scrimshaw (1899-1979) of the Western New York Conference.
SCUDDER,
RUSSELL S.
Born:
10-16-1901 Milford PA married: Ruth
Sewell
Died:
9-25-1969 Roxbury NY obit: Central
New York Conference 1970, 161
1925 admitted on trial, Newark Conference
1927 ordained deacon, Newark Conference
ordained
elder
Interment:
Live Oak Cemetery, Paulding OH
Obit:
Central New York Conference 1970, 159
1925-27 student
1927-29 Kenilworth
1929 transfer to Montana Conference
1929-32 Moore – Sun River
1932
transfer to Northern
Indiana Conference
1932-35 Bourbon circuit
1935-37 on leave
1937-39 North
Towanda and Luthers Mills (Central NY Conf)
1939-40 New
Albany, New Era and Overton (Central NY Conf)
1940-45 located
1945-47
Millport and Pine Valley
(Central NY Conf)
1947-48 Monroeton,
Franklindale, Powell and Liberty Corners (Central NY Conf)
1948 transfer to Central New York
Conference
1948-51 Monroeton,
Franklindale, Powell and Liberty Corners
1951 transfer to Northern New York
Conference
1951-54 Waddington and Point Rockway
1954-57 Madison and Bouckville
1957 transfer to Central New York
Conference
1957-61 Stockbridge, Bennetts and Pratts
1961-63 Georgetown
1962- Scott and South Spafford
Note
Russell and Ruth Scudder of Penny Farms FL were asphyxiated by fumes from a
faulty furnace while visiting an aunty in NY.
SEARLES,
WILLIAM EDGAR
Born:
3-2-1855 Bath NY married: Sarah Emma
Ketchum/Ketcham [1880]
Died:
3-25-1949 Canandaigua NY obit:
Genesee Conference 1905, 152/89
married2:
Belle Godfrey [1907]
1877 license to preach obit2: Genesee
Conference 1953, 364
1879 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference
1881 ordained deacon, Genesee Conference
ordained
elder, Genesee Conference
Interment:
Woodlawn Cemetery, Canandaigua NY
Obit:
Genesee Conference 1939, 334
1879-80 Harrison
Valley
1881-84 Bradford NY
1884-87 Hammondsport
1887-90 Addison
1890-93 Canisteo
1893-98 Avoca
1898-04 Livonia
1904-08 Fairport
1908-09 assistant, Pittsford
1909 retired
Note:
William Edgar Searles is the father of Rev. John Wesley Searles (1883-1975) of
the Western New York Conference.
SEARS,
HENRY COMPTON
Born:
11-2-1887 married:
Lois Jennet Saylor
Died:
3-5-1977 Johnson City NY obit: Central New
York Conference 1980, 326
1909 admitted on trial, Central New York
Conference
1911 ordained deacon, Central New York Conference
ordained
elder
Interment:
Riverside Cemetery, Endicott NY
Obit:
Central New York Conference 1977, 228
1909-10 Peterboro
1910-12 Elmira Pennsylvania Avenue
1912-13 Odessa and Catherine
1913-14 Ulster
and Milan
1914 transfer to Genesee Conference
1914-16 Ransomville and Fillmore
1916 transfer to Central New York
Conference
1916-19 Beaver Dams and Townsend
1919-20 Leona
and Wetona
1920-21 Leona,
East Troy and West Burlington
1921-22 East
Troy
1922-27 Ulster
and Milan
1927-28 DeRuyter, Shedds, and New Woodstock
1928-33 Cincinnatus
1933-43 Watkins Glen
1943-45 Van Etten and Hicks
1945-47 Solvay Freeman Avenue
1947-54 Auburn Wall Street
1954 retired
SEAVER,
HORATIO NELSON
Born:
6-29-1810 NY married: Anne Wain
Thomas
Died:
7-26-1879 Highland KS obit:
[5/17/1813 – 6/16/1887]
1834 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference
1836 ordained deacon, Genesee Conference
Interment:
Highland Cemetery, Highland KS
Obit:
1845-46 Buffalo Niagara Street
1847-47 Albion
1847-48 Elmira
1848 charter member of East Genesee
Conference
1848-49 Elmira
1849-50 Corning
1850-52 agent, Genesee College
1852-55 superintendent, Corning District
1855-56 Painted Post and Knoxville NY
1856-57 Hornellsville (did not finish the
year)
1857-58 Mansfield
and Covington
1858-61 retired (or on leave?)
1862 withdrew
Note:
It is unclear whether Horatio N. Seaver ever served Mansfield and
Covington. DeWitt C. Huntingdon states
(Kibbard’s 1887 History of the East
Genesee Conference, page 243) that in 1857 he was called “to take charge at
Hornellsville, that charge having been made vacant by the removal of Rev. H.N.
Seaver to Kansas.” And an obituary (The Kansas Sun, 8/8/1879, page 3) states
that he came to Kansas in 1857. One
possible explanation is that Seaver went to Kansas in during the 1856-57 year
and then was appointed in 1857 because he planned to return for the 1857-58
year – but whether he did or not has not been determined.
In 1861, Horatio N. Seaver was a member of
the first Kansas State Legislature.
SEGWALT,
JOHN
Born:
9-8-1858 Getzville NY married:
Elizabeth Harbell
Died:
3-8-1935 Watkins Glen NY obit: Genesee
Conference 1942, 464
1881 license to preach
1885 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference
1887 ordained deacon, Genesee Conference
ordained
elder, Genesee Conference
Interment:
Elmlawn Cemetery, Tonawanda NY
Obit:
Genesee Conference 1935, 771
1884-85 Miller’s Corners (first 9 months);
Greenwood (last 3 months)
1885-86 Greenwood
1887-90 Savona and Sonora
1890-95 Hammondsport
1895-00 Osceola
and Elkland
1900-05 Galeton
1905-06 Bradford PA Asbury
1906-11 Portville
SHAUT,
MARSHALL MARCUS
Born:
9-4-1872 Wheeler NY married:
Esther A. Johnson
Died:
11-13-1943 Prattsburgh NY obit: Genesee
Conference 1929, 319
married2:
Marion Louis Bradley [9/25/1930]
1900 license obit2:
Genesee Conference 1956, 159
1916 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference
1918 ordained deacon, Genesee Conference
ordained
elder
Interment:
Obit:
Genesee Conference 1943, 116
1900-02 Avoca
1902-03 Bath
1903-15 (not appointed)
1915-16 Fremont and Big Creek
1916-19 Woodhull
1919-23 North Cohocton
1923-25 Silver Springs
1925-26 Wheeler
1926-27 on leave
1927-29 Warren’s Corners
1929-31 Franklinville
1931-32 Devon and Yorkshire
1932-33 Nelson
and Tompkins
1933 retired
SHAW,
JOHN
Born:
8-11-1807 Bristol NY married: Lucinda
Livermore
Died:
1-16-1869 Himrod NY obit: [2/1/1814 –
1/26/1873]
1831 admitted on trial, East Genesee Conference
1833 ordained deacon, East Genesee Conference
ordained
elder, East Genesee Conference
Interment:
Hillside Cemetery, Dundee NY
Obit:
East Genesee Conference 1869, 24
1848 charter member of East Genesee
Conference
1848-49 Hector and Mecklenburg
1849-51 Millport
1851-52 Tyrone and Barrington
1852-53 Wellsville and Andover
1853-54 Wellsville
1854-55 Tioga
1855-57 Coke’s Chapel and Bristol
1857-58
Henrietta
1858-59 Barrington
1859-61 Dresden
1861-62 Mt. Morris
1862-63 retired [on leave?]
1863-64 Charleston
1864-66 Wellsboro
1866-68 Springfield
1868 retired
Note:
Obituaries also appear in the 9/9/1869 Northern
Christian Advocate, page 285, column 3, for John and the 3/6/1873 Northern Christian Advocate, page 78.
Column 5, for Lucinda.
SHAW,
WILLLIAM H.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1855 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference
1857 ordained deacon, Genesee Conference
ordained
elder
Interment:
Obit:
1855-57 Coudersport
1857-58
1858-59 Marilla
1859-63
1963-64 Marilla
1864 located
SHEFFER,
WASHINGTON
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1853 admitted on trial, East Genesee Conference
1856 ordained deacon, East Genesee Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1853-54 Brookfield
1854-56 Ulysses
1856 located
Note:
Washington Sheffer served in the Pennsylvania Infantry, 171st
Regiment.
SHIELDS,
DOYLE E.
Born:
1925 married:
Ann M. _____
Died:
2013 obit:
[1931 – 2015]
1952 license
1956 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference
1958 ordained deacon, Genesee Conference
Interment:
East Ripley Cemetery, Ripley NY
Obit:
1952-53 Roulette
1953-55 Friendship
1955-57 Knoxville
– Austinburg
1957-62 Canisteo
1962- Portville
SHIPMAN,
JOSEPH CARLTON SR.
Born:
12-12-1907 Athens PA married:
Julia Helen Wood
Died:
3-16-1983 Lebanon OH obit: Western
New York Conference 1981, 314
married2:
Pearl Josephine McVey [1982]
1929 license obit2:
[6/3/1907 – 7/16/2004]
1933 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference
1935 ordained deacon, Genesee Conference
ordained
elder
Interment:
Rogersville Forest Lawn Cemetery, Dansville NY
or Otterbein-Shaker
Cemetery, Otterbein OH
Obit:
Western New York Conference 1983, 317
1928-31 South Dansville
1931-33 Black Creek Congregational
1933-35 Nelson
and Tompkins
1935-37 Union Hill
1937-39 Rochester Lake Avenue
1939- South Byron
Note:
Joseph C. Shipman has a tombstone in each cemetery, one with each wife.
SHIPMAN,
MONTAGUE ARTHUR
Born:
5-6-1879 Ottawa, Ontario married: Helen A.
Anderson [1905]
Died:
9-9-1969 Pasadena CA obit:
[10/29/1885 – 5/8/1947]
married2:
Hilda Slater [c1952]
1899 license obit2:
[1880 – 10/13/1956]
1909 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference
ordained
deacon, Genesee Conference
ordained
elder, Genesee Conference
Interment:
Mountain View Cemetery and Mausoleum, Altadena CA
Obit:
1900-01 South River, Ontario
1902-03 Scarboro, Ontario
1903-04 Hamilton, Ontario, Gore Street
1904-04 Stockton
1905-07 North Girard (including first part of
1907-08)
1907-08 assistant, New York City Metropolitan
Temple (second part)
1908-10 Custer City and Derrick City
1910-12 Lawrenceville
and Tompkins
1912-15 Hornell Spencer
1915-17 Buffalo Central Park
1917 withdrew
Note:
In 1918 the Montague Shipman family moved to Pasadena CA where he became an
evangelist and patriotic speaker.
SHOWERS,
BYRON DARWIN
Born:
5-1-1872 NY married: Mary H.
Kennedy (1897)
Died:
1-18-1956 Syracuse NY obit: Central
New York Conference 1969, 172
1898 admitted on trial, Central New York
Conference
1900 ordained deacon, Central New York Conference
ordained
elder
Interment:
Union Cemetery, Ira NY
Obit:
Central New York Conference 1956, 133
1898-01 Wayne and Barrington
1901-05 Wellsburg
1905-08 Hopewell and Flint
1908-13 Seneca Castle and Hopewell Center
1913-17 Syracuse Brown Memorial
1917-19 chaplain, Auburn State Prison
1919-22 Oneida First
1922-28 superintendent, Syracuse East
District
1918-29 Towanda
1929 retired
SHURTLEFF,
ALONZO HARRINGTON
Born:
1-23-1826 East Bloomfield NY married: Julia M. Finney
Died:
5-3-1904 Livonia NY obit: Central
New York Conference 1883, 136
1850 admitted on trial, East Genesee Conference
1852 ordained deacon, East Genesee Conference
ordained
elder, East Genesee Conference
Interment:
Union Cemetery, Livonia NY
Obit:
Central New York Conference 1904, 114
1850-51 Caron
1851-52 Mansfield
1852-53 Troy
1853-54 Watkins
1854-55 located
1855-56 agent, American Bible Society
1856-63 located
1863-64 Orange
1864-66 Rochester North Street
1866-67 Richmond
1867-69 East Bloomfield
1869-70 agent, East Genesee Conference
Seminary
1870-72 South Sodus
1872 transfer to Central New York
Conference by change of boundaries
1876 transfer to Genesee Conference
by change of boundaries
1880 transfer to Central New York
Conference by change of boundaries
SIMMONS,
FREDERICK PERRY
Born:
4-27-1867 Westfield PA married: Ida
Lownsberry
Died:
4-28-1932 Mansfield PA obit: Central
New York Conference 1946, 133
1892 license to preach
1894 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference
1896 ordained deacon, Genesee Conference
ordained
elder, Genesee Conference
Interment:
Prospect Cemetery, Mansfield PA
Obit:
Central New York Conference 1932, 164
1893-95 Almond
1895-97 Machias
1897-00 Fillmore, Wiscoy and Hume
1900-03 Corning Grace
1903-05 Hornellsville Spencer
1905-10 Galeton
and Sunderlinville
1910-11 Wellsboro
SITSON,
J.G.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Genesee Conference
Interment:
Obit:
Genesee Conference
1907-08 Round
Top
(last part of the year)
Note:
J.G. Sitson served as a supply preacher.
He is otherwise unknown.
SLAUGHTER,
WILLIAM BRADNER
Born:
7-15-1822 Benton Center NY married: Sarah Buck
[3/5/1843]
Died:
7-26-1879 Omaha NE obit:
[10/25/1819 – 3/7/1850]
married2:
Lucinda Butterfield [10/9/1850]
1845 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference obit2: [2/28/1829 – 1/9/1855]
1847 ordained deacon, Genesee Conference married3: Adelaide Butterfield
[6/26/1855]
ordained
elder obit3:
[11/16/1832 – 4/8/1914]
Interment:
Prospect Hill Cemetery, Omaha NE
Obit:
1850-51 Coudersport
Academy
1851-52
1852 located
transfer to Rock River
Conference
transfer to Rocky Mountain
Conference
transfer to Colorado
Conference
transfer to Nebraska
Conference
1866-69 Omaha First
1869-71 Bellvue
1871-74 Brownville
1874-77 Lincoln
1877-79 superintendent, Omaha District
Note:
The first Mrs. Slaughter was the daughter of Rev. Zina J. Buck (1799-1853) of
the East Genesee Conference. A biography
of William B. Slaughter is given in the 1882 History of the State of Nebraska, pages 438-439.
SLOCUM,
WILLIAM ESLER
Born:
4-15-1894 Farmersville Station NY married: Lenora Grace Dedrick
[4/25/1925]
Died:
12-7-1983 Kendall NY obit:
Western New York Conference 1976, 245
1921 license
1924 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference
1926 ordained deacon, Genesee Conference
1928 ordained elder
Interment:
Glenwood Cemetery, Perry NY
Obit:
Western New York Conference 1984, 335
1920-21 Centerville (part year)
1921-24 Ceres
1924-26 North Gainesville
1926-27 Duke Center and Knapps Creek
1927-29 Greigsville
1929-32 Pavilion
1932-33 Buffalo Lovejoy
1933-34 Warrens Corners and East Wilson
1934-36 Holland and Protection
1936-40 Bowmansville
1940- Galeton
Note:
William E. Slocum is a co-founder of the Order of St. Luke within the United
Methodist Church.
SMITH,
CHARLES ARTHUR
Born:
2-28-1897 married:
Ella S. Sporing
Died:
14-14-1984 Cadillac MI obit: Central
New York Conference 1979, 286
1924 admitted on trial, Troy Conference
1926 ordained deacon, Troy Conference
ordained
elder
Interment:
Lake City Cemetery, Lake City MI
Obit:
Central New York Conference 1985, 226
1924-26 East Middlebury and Ripton
1926-28 Williston Federated
1928 transfer to Central New York
Conference
1928-31 Gorham and Stanley
1931-35 Branchport, Bluff Point and Italy
Hill
1935-36 Port Gibson and East Palmyra
1936-39 Benton, Voak and Friend
1939-41 Tyrone and Wayne
1941-43 Millport and Pine Valley
1943-46 Mainesburg,
Elk Run and Covington
1946-48 Trumansburg
1948- Rose and Lock Berlin
SMITH,
ELMER ELLSWORTH
Born: married:
Augusta Reynolds
Died: obit:
Central New York Conference 1939, 604
1890 admitted on trial, Central New York
Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1900? Canton
Note:
in 1924, the widowed Mrs. Smith married William Ward Hunt
SMITH,
PAUL
Born:
2-25-1839 McKean County PA married: Sarah Helen
Lucas
Died:
2-24-1910 Jackson Center PA obit: Central New York
Conference 1909, 158
1863 license to exhort
1865 license to preach
1871 ordained local deacon, East Genesee
Conference
1872 admitted on trial, Central New York
Conference
1874 ordained deacon, Central New York Conference
1876 ordained elder, Central New York Conference
Interment:
Jackson Center Cemetery, Tioga County PA
Obit:
Central New York Conference 1910, 177
1866-68 assistant,
Jackson
1870-71 Rutland
and Columbia
1872 “transfer” to Central New York
Conference by change of boundaries
1872-73 Rutland
1873-76 Forksville
1876 transfer to Genesee Conference
by change of boundaries
1876-79 Lawrenceville
1879-80 Burlington
1880 transfer to Central New
Conference by change of boundaries
1880-82 Burlington
1882-85 Millerton
1885-88 Rutland
1888 retired
SMITH,
RAYMOND
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1952 license, Central New York Conference
1955 ordained local deacon
1957 ordained local elder
Interment:
Obit:
1952-53 South Butler, Butler Center
1953-57 Peterboro, Siloam
1957-59 Rose, Lock Berlin
1959-60 Millport, Pine Valley
1960- Big
Pond, Wetona
Note:
Raymond Smith served as a supply preacher.
He is otherwise unknown.
SMITH,
ROY LAVERGNE
Born:
5-15-1911 Erin NY married: Arlene Fritsch
Died:
1952 obit:
Northern New York Conference 2003, 325
1934 admitted on trial, Central New York
Conference
1936 ordained deacon, Central New York Conference
ordained
elder
Interment:
Obit:
Northern New York Conference 1952, 134
1934-37 Daggett
and
Webbs Mills
1937-40 Euclid and Morgans
1940-49 Fayetteville and Kirkville
1949 transfer to Northern New York
Conference
1949-52 Utica Dryer Memorial
SMITH,
SUMNER CYRUS
Born:
1819 married:
Ann M. Barker
Died:
6-5-1883 obit:
[d. 1/2/1852]
married2:
Laura C. _____
1840 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference obit2: Genesee Conference 1881, 32
1843 ordained deacon, Genesee Conference
ordained
elder
Interment:
Mount View Cemetery, Pekin NY
Obit:
Genesee Conference 1883, 104
1854-55 Coudersport
SMITH,
WILLIAM HENRY
Born:
4-16-1872 Manchester, England married: Sarah Rockelmann
Died:
5-3-1960 obit:
Genesee Conference 1956, 158
1896 license to preach
1899 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference
1901 ordained deacon, Genesee Conference
ordained
elder, Genesee Conference
Interment:
“family plot”, Springville NY
Obit:
Genesee Conference 1960, 187
1897-98 Hamlin (last 9 months)
1898-00 Alden
1900-01 Depew and Pine Hill
1901-02 Holland and Protection
1902-04 Allegany and Knapp’s Creek
1904-07 Ulysses
and Gold
1907-09 Cuba
1909-16 Warsaw
1916-18 Honeoye Falls
1918-20 superintendent, Children’s Home at
Williamsville
1920-22 Andover
1922-24 Tonawanda
1924-32 superintendent, Children’s Home at
Williamsville
1932-34 Elma
1934-35 Troupsburg
and Brookfield
1935-38 Dalton
1938-40 Hartland and North Hartland
1940 retired
1945-46 Galeton
1946-60 Wyoming
SNODGRASS,
ELISHA McCLELLAN
Born:
10-14-1861 Auburn WV married:
Sabrina McConnell [1881]
Died:
8-24-1954 Gowanda NY obit: Genesee
Conference 1929, 319
married2:
Flora M. _____ [1934]
1884 license to preach obit2: Genesee
Conference 1935, 780
1889 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference married3: Mrs. Laura Crenshaw Horton
1891 ordained deacon, Genesee Conference obit3: [d. 1961]
ordained
elder, Genesee Conference
Interment:
Temple Hill Cemetery, Genesco NY
Obit:
Genesee Conference 1955, 821
1886-87 Parsippany NJ (6 months)
1887-88 New Dover NJ
1888-89 New Dover NJ (first part), Eldred PA
(second part)
1889-93 Eldred
1893-95 Holley
1895-97 Franklinville
1897-02 Genesco
1902-04 North Tonawanda
1904-09 Coudersport
1909-11 Niagara Falls St. Paul’s
1911-16 Hamburg
1916-18 Medina
1918-23 Honeoye Falls
1923-26 Mt. Morris
1926 retired
1937-38 Greenwood
(part year)
Note:
The third Mrs. Snodgrass (nee Crenshaw) was the widow of a Mr. Eugene W. Horton
(1874-1916).
SNYDER,
KENNETH NEAL
Born:
5-9-1931 Salamanca NY married:
Died:
11-21-2010 Gowanda NY obit:
1956 license
1960 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference
Interment:
Pine Hill Cemetery, Gowanda NY
Obit:
1960-61 Knoxville
– Austinburg
1961- Jasper
SOUTHALL,
HERBERT SAMUEL
Born:
7-20-1857 Birmingham, England married: Ada Bovey
Died:
9-20-1913 NY obit: Genesee
Conference 1917, 135
1880 license to preach
1888 admitted on trial, Central New York
Conference
1890 ordained deacon, Central New York Conference
ordained
elder, Central New York Conference
Interment:
Machpelah Cemetery, LeRoy NY
Obit:
Genesee Conference 1913, 142
1888-91 Navarino
1891-93 East Syracuse
1893-98 Syracuse First Ward
1898-99 Odessa and Catherine
1899-01 Blossburg
1901-02 on leave
1902-03 Phoenix
1903-08 Elmira Centenary
1908 transfer to Genesee Conference
1908-10 Olean First
1910-11 LeRoy
SPANGLER,
HOWARD LEWIS
Born:
9-26-1880 Oil City PA married: Eva
M. Laraway
Died:
10-20-1940 Rushville NY obit: Western New
York Conference 1965, 551
1910 license, Baptist Church
1914 ordained, Baptist Church
Interment:
Glenview Cemetery, Pulteney NY
Obit:
Genesee Conference 1941, 269
1911-13 Camden NJ Highland Chapel
1914-18 Milton PA First
1918 speaker, National Dry Federation
(4 months)
1918-21 Wellsville
1921-22 Coudersport
1922-24 speaker, World Peace Commission
1924-27 Indianapolis IN Cumberland
1927 Forest Manor IN, Methodist
Episcopal (part year)
1927-29 Salamanca NY, Genesee Conference ME
1929 “transfer” to Genesee Conference
of the Methodist Episcopal Church
1929-31 Salamanca
1931-35 Smethport
1935-36 Knoxville
and Austinburg
1936-38 Avon and Fowlerville
1938-39 Millville – East Shelby –
Knowlesville (did not finish the year)
1939-40 on leave
SPARROW,
CHARLES B.
Born:
4-11-1844 Hastings, Ontario married: Chestina
Ardella Olmstead [1870]
Died:
4-12-1899 Buffalo, NY obit: Genesee
Conference 1927,803
license,
Genesee Conference
1869 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference
1873 ordained deacon, Genesee Conference
1875 ordained elder, Genesee Conference
Interment:
Eulalia Cemetery, Coudersport PA
Obit:
Genesee Conference 1899, 127
1869-70 Coudersport
Warsaw
Attica
Holly
Scottsville
1876-78 located
1879 transfer to Holston Conference
1885 transfer to Genesee Conference
1891 transfer to Holston Conference
1892 transfer to Genesee Conference
1892-95 Attica
1895- Buffalo Grace
Note:
Mrs. Sparrow was known as Ardelle; her first name is sometimes given as
Christina.
SPENCER,
GEORGE SEYMOUR
Born:
6-20-1848 Manlius NY married:
Florence Alzinah Norton
Died:
4-20-1914 Churchville NY obit: Genesee
Conference 1934, 551
1875 license to preach
1883 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference
1885 ordained deacon, Genesee Conference
ordained
elder, Genesee Conference
Interment:
Oakwood Cemetery, Syracuse NY
Obit:
Genesee Conference 1914, 137
1883-86 Knoxville
1886-88 Prattsburg
1888-91 Cohocton
1891-94 Savona and Sonora
1894-97 Hornellsville Spencer
1897-99 West Webster
1899-00 Pittsford, Brighton and Despatch
1900-01 Pittsford and Brighton
1901-03 Hilton
1903-04 Garland and Otis
1904-06 Millville
1906-08 Conesus
1908-10 Charlotte
1910-11 East Bloomfield
SQUIRES,
JOHN ALBERT
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Genesee Conference
1945 license to preach
1947 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference
1949 ordained deacon, Genesee Conference
ordained
elder, Genesee Conference
Interment:
Obit:
Genesee Conference
1945-50 Keeneyville,
Little March and Niles Valley
1950-51 student
1950-51 Doubs,
Jefferson and Point of Rocks MD
1951-53 Keeneyville,
Little Marsh and Niles Valley
1953-56 Hammondsport
1956-60 Whitneyville,
Round Top, Coolidge Hollow, Catlin Hollow, Stony Fork and Welsh Settlement
STACKHOUSE,
WILLIS ALLEN
Born:
12-26-1880 Alpine NY married:
Julia Herrmann
Died:
3-?-1975 obit:
Genesee Conference 1937, 368
married2:
Katharine Cox [1938]
1897 license to preach obit2: Western New York
Conference 1969,244
1901 admitted on trial, Holston Conference
1903 ordained deacon, Central New York Conference
ordained
elder, Genesee Conference
Interment:
Glenwood Cemetery, Perry NY
Obit:
Western New York Conference 1975, 229
1900-01 Cayuta NY Union
1901-02 Oliver Springs TN
1902 transfer to Central New York
Conference
1902-05 Beaver Dam
1905-08 Chemung
1908-10 Leona
and Wetona
1910-11 Duke Center, Genesee Conference
1911 transfer to Genesee Conference
1911-12 Duke Center
1912-14 Rushford
1914-19 Port Allegheny
1919-22 Wayland
1922-27 Rochester Trinity
1927-28 LaSalle
1928-34 North Tonawanda First
1934-35 Gowanda and Collins Center
1935-41 Olean Trinity
1941-48 Buffalo North Delaware
1948-51 Hornell Spencer
1951 retired
Castile NY Community Church
Note:
The second Mrs. Stackhouse was an ordained member of the Western New York
Conference.
STATHAM,
CLAIR WALTER
Born:
12-16-1916 Harrison Valley PA married: [not married]
Died:
2-23-1989 Bath NY obit:
1948 license, Genesee Conference
1961 ordained deacon, Genesee Conference
Interment:
Whites Corners Cemetery, Harrison Valley PA
Obit:
North Central New York Conference 1989, 450
1948-56 Harrison
Valley, Potter Brook, Mills
1956-82 Hammondsport and Mitchellville
1982 retired
Savona
Kanona
Note:
C.W. Statham is a great-nephew of Walter Stratham. He operated a general store in Harrison Valley
and served part-time before entering the ministry full-time in 1948. He is erroneously listed in find-a-grave as
STRATHAM.
STATHAM,
WALTER
Born:
7-6-1833 Dryden NY married:
Caroline Rooks
Died:
9-3-1907 Weedsport NY obit: Central
New York Conference 1924, 167
1859 admitted on trial, East Genesee Conference
1862 ordained deacon, East Genesee Conference
1864 ordained elder, East Genesee Conference
Interment:
Weedsport Rural Cemetery, Weedsport PA
Obit:
Central New York Conference 1907, 151
1859-61 Canaseraga
1861-62 Bennett’s Creek
1862-63 Westfield
1863-65 Big Flats
1865-67 Pine
Creek
1867-68 Charleston
1868-71 East
Smithfield
1871-72 North Chemung
1872 transfer to Central New York
Conference by change of boundaries
1872-74 North Chemung
1874-76 Catherine
1876 transfer to Genesee Conference by
change of Boundaries
1876-79 East
Smithfield
1879-80 Springfield
1880 transfer to Central New York
Conference by change of boundaries
1880-81 Springfield
1881-83 Well’s and Webb’s Mills
1883-84 Reading Center
1884-86 Nelson and Erieville
1886-87 Perryville
1887-88 Bethel
1888-89 Canoga
1889-90 Big Flats
1890-91 Montezuma
1891 retired
Note:
Walter Statham is an uncle (through his brother Henry) to George K. Statham
(1863-1939) of the Troy Conference and a great-uncle (thought his brother
Edwin) to Clair Walter Statham.
STEARNS,
BRUCE HAROLD
Born:
5-11-1922 Syracuse NY married:
Rose M. Peck
Died:
3-6-2011 Rochester NY obit:
[4/12/1924 -12/12/1997]
Married2:
Faye Jackson
1948 admitted on trial, Central New York
Conference obit2: [6/21/1926 –
2/18/2002]
1950 ordained deacon, New York Conference
ordained
elder
Interment:
Obit:
1948-50 student
1950 transfer to New York Conference
1950-53 Fishkill
1953 transfer to Central New York
Conference
1953-55 associate, Elmira Hedding
1955 transfer to Genesee Conference
1955-60 Coudersport
– Sweden Valley
1960-65 Buffalo First
1965-79 Hornell Park
1979-81 Niagara Falls Wesley
transfer to Troy
Conference
1989 retired
Note:
Bruce H. Stearns is the grandson of Rev. Warren J. Stearns (1871-1930) of the Central
New York Conference and is the son of Harold G. Stearns.
STEARNS,
HAROLD GEORGE
Born:
2-4-1896 Syracuse NY married:
Ruth E. Sampson
Died:
10-31-1958 Owasco NY obit: Central
New York Conference
1916 admitted on trial, Central New York
Conference
1918 ordained deacon, Central New York Conference
ordained
elder
Interment:
Fort Hill Cemetery, Auburn NY
Obit:
Central New York Conference 1959, 149
1916-18 Brewerton
1918-21 Sterling and Martville
1921-24 Skaneateles
1924-26 Elmira West Side
1926-29 Mansfield
1929-35 Newark
1935-39 Auburn First
1939-41 Elmira Hedding
1941-47 superintendent, Geneva District
1947- executive secretary, Conference
Board of Education
Note:
Harold G. Stearns is the son of Rev. Warren J. Stearns (1871-1930) of the
Central New York Conference and is the father of Bruce H. Stearns.
STEVENS,
JOHN CALVIN
Born:
12-25-1836 Wyalusing PA married: Margaret
B. Richards
Died:
8-24-1910 McDaniel MD obit: Genesee
Conference 1891, 149
1861 license to preach
1866 admitted on trial, East Genesee Conference
1868 ordained deacon, East Genesee Conference
ordained
elder, East Genesee Conference
Interment:
Addison Rural Cemetery, Addison NY
Obit:
Genesee Conference 1910, 126
1864-65 Oswayo
1865-66 Ulysses
1866-67 Kanona
1867-70 Thurston
1870-72 Bristol
1872 transfer to Genesee Conference
by change of boundaries
1872-73 West Webster
1873-75 Holland
1875-76 Java
1876-77 Short Tract
1877-78 South Addison
1878-80 Campbelltown and Merchantville
1880-84 on leave
1880-84 Leetonia
1884-86 Little
Marsh
1886-89 Troupsburg
1889-91 Towelsville
1891-92 Almond and West Almond
1892-93 Hartsville
1893-95 Bath Second
1895-01 on leave
1901 retired
Note:
An obituary for John Calvin Stevens also appears in The Christian Advocate, 10/22/1910, page 31 (1151). Some sources give the first name of Mrs.
Stevens as Margret.
STEVENS,
LUMAN ALBERT
Born:
6-10-1837 Machias NY married:
Died:
6-17-1901 obit:
Western New York Conference
1859 license, Genesee Conference
1860 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference
1862 ordained deacon, Genesee Conference
ordained
elder
Interment:
Obit:
Genesee Conference 1901, 126
1860-61 Otto and Mansfield
1861-62 Ellicottville
1862-64 Smethport
1854-67 Coudersport
1867-70 Friendship and Blemont
1870-73 Perry
1873-76 Olean
1876-78 Hornellsville
1878-82 superintendent, Olean District
1882-85 Rochester Corn Hill
1885-87 Tonawanda
1887-93 superintendent, Genesee District
1893-94 Hornellsville Park
1894-96 Albion
1896-991 Buffalo Ripley Memorial
1899-00 East Bloomfield
1900-01 Avon
STEVENSON,
CARL SILVANUS
Born:
9-8-1897 married:
Elizabeth Stanton Daniels (1930)
Died:
12-9-1965 obit:
[1/5/1909 – 4/9/1996]
1928 admitted on trial, Central New York
Conference
1940 ordained deacon, Central New York Conference
ordained
elder
Interment:
Whiting Village Cemetery, Whiting VT
Obit:
Central New York Conference 1966, 190
1928-29 Burlington
1929-30 student
1930 discontinued
1938-39 Rose, Wallington and South Sodus
1939-40 Sodus Point, Wallington and South
Sodus
STIDD,
EDWIN FRANK
Born:
12-20-1880 married:
Leona H. _____
Died:
7-20-1935 obit:
[1882 – 1955]
license
Interment:
Evergreen Hill Cemetery, Staples MN
Obit:
Northern Minnesota Conference 1935, 492
1904-05 Keeneyville
STILWELL,
RICHARD LOUNSBURY
Born:
1-27-1819 Hector NY married:
Died:
10-4-1901 Bellona NY obit:
Married2:
Laura Whitcomb
1839 license to exhort obit2: Central New York
Conference 1881, 92
1842 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference married3: Mrs. Julia Welch Larzelere
[1882]
1845 ordained deacon, East Genesee Conference obit3: Central New York Conference 1923, 65
ordained
elder, East Genesee Conference
Interment:
Bellona Cemetery, Bellona NY
Obit:
Central New York Conference 1901, 102
1848 charter member of East Genesee
Conference
1848-49 Urbana
1849-51 Hector
1851-52 Liberty
Corners
1852-54 Jackson
1854-56 Ulster
1856-58 Knoxville
1858-60 Mansfield
1860-62 East
Charleston
1862-64 Burlington
1864-67 Liberty
Corners and Monroeton
1867-68 Harmonyville
1868-70 Milo Center
1870-72 Chemung
1872 transfer to Central New York
Conference by change of boundaries
1872-73 Chemung
1873-74 McGrawville
1874-75 Preble
1875-77 Erin and Breesport
1877-78 Varna and Etna
1878-80 Sheldrake
1880-81 Dresden
1991-83 McLean
1883-85 Freeville
1885-86 Bridgeport
1886-88 Cicero
1888 retired
Note:
The third Mrs. Stilwell (nee Welch) was the widow of a Mr. Whitney
Larzelere. This surname is sometimes
given (erroneously) as Stillwell.
STODDARD,
GEORGE
Born: married:
Died: obit:
license
Interment:
Obit:
1924-26 Delmar
Note:
George Stoddard served as a supply preacher.
It appears he may have later become a pastor in the Christian and
Missionary Alliance Church.
STRATTON,
GEORGE W.
Born:
5-4-1837 Webster NY married:
Anna Maria Dewey
Died:
9-30-1909 Rochester NY obit: Genesee
Conference 1921, 297
1862 admitted on trial, East Genesee Conference
1864 ordained deacon, East Genesee Conference
ordained
elder, East Genesee Conference
Interment:
Webster Rural Cemetery, Webster NY
Obit:
Genesee Conference 1909, 138
1862-63 Lawrenceville
1863-64 Monroeton
1864-65 Jackson
1865 located
1870 “transfer” to Genesee Conference
Note:
An obituary for George W. Stratton also appears in The Christian Advocate 1/13/1910, page 78.
STRATTON,
THOMAS R.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
1870 ordained deacon, Newark Conference
Interment:
Obit:
1869-70 Millstone
1870-71 Everettstown
1871-73 Mendham
1873-75 Unionville
1875-77 Webster
1877 transfer to Genesee Conference
1877-79 Collins
1877-78 Concord
1879-81 Coudersport
1881-82 Bolivar
1882-84 Chili
1884-87 Newfane
1887-88
1888-89 Lockport Clinton Street
1889-91 on leave, living in Lockport
1891 withdrew, page 32
Note: The 1885 Journal, page 60, reports that Thomas
R. Stratton was found guilty of impudent conduct and reprimanded by the
bishop. There are newspaper accounts
before and after 1885 of this case, which involved a suicide and the pastor
clamping down on boys accompanying girls home after the evening service. He may be the brother of the noted Rev.
Morrison Stratton (1860-1916) of the New York Conference, who also began his
ministerial career in New Jersey and transferred to the Genesee Conference in
1875.
STRONG,
CHARLES RANDOLPH
Born:
3-17-1828 Penobscot ME married: Lydia
Ann Yale
Died:
12-21-1889 Randolph NY obit: [4/22/1829 – 1884]
1854 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference
1856 ordained deacon, Genesee Conference
ordained
elder
Interment:
Yale Family Cemetery, Willing NY
Obit:
1854-55 Boston
1855-56 Otto
1856-57 Gowanda
1857-58 Sardinia and Colden
1858-50 Wales
1860-61 Coudersport
1861-63 chaplain, 46th regiment of
PA Volunteers
1863-65 missionary to New Orleans
1865-67 West Carlton and speaker of
Freedman’s Aid Society
1867 located
Angola NY Congregational
Church
Note: There is another (?) Rev. Charles Strong (4/27/1827 – 12/2/1887)
buried in this same cemetery.
STRYKER,
JACOB WYCKOFF
Born:
2-28-1804 Readington NJ married:
Catherine Marie Mahon [5/10/1838]
Died:
1-28-1875 Rockville IN obit: [d.
3/9/1839]
married2:
Sarah Lovisa Olney [8/16/1842]
1837 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference obit2: [11/19/1816 – 6/22/1914]
1840 ordained deacon, Genesee Conference
ordained
elder
Interment:
Rockville Cemetery, Rockville IN
Obit:
1842-43 Potter
mission [Coudersport] (second part of year)
1843-45
1845 located
Note:
Jacob W. Stryker was living in Indiana by 1852.
Details on his ministry are given in Conable’s 1876 History of the Genesee Annual Conference, pages 447 and 523.
SUTHERLAND,
ANDREW
Born:
7-22-1818 Cambria NY married:
Died:
2-27-1891 Rochester NY obit: married2:
Mary McLean [8/7/1848]
1846 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference obit2: Genesee Conference 1900, 38
1848 ordained deacon, Genesee Conference
ordained
elder, East Genesee Conference
Interment:
Mount Hope Cemetery, Rochester NY
Obit:
Genesee Conference 1891, 134
1846-47 Starkey
1847-48 Hopewell
1848 charter member of East Genesee
Conference
1848-49 Hopewell
1849-51 Dresden
1849-50
Milo
1851-53 Catherine
1853-55 Bath
1855-57 Towanda
1857-59 Trumansburg
1859-61 Newark
1861
65 superintendent, Geneva
District
1865-67 Lima
1867-68 Addison
1868-69 Rochester Alexander Street
1869-72 superintendent, Hornellsville
District
1872 transfer to Central New York
Conference by change of boundaries
1872-76 superintendent, Lima District
1876 transfer to Genesee Conference
by change of boundaries
1876-79 Perry
1879-82 Nunda
1882-84 Andover
1884-86 Webster
1886 retired
Note:
Andrew Sutherland is a brother to Fletcher Sutharland and to Carroll Sutherland
(1814-1843), also of the Genesee Conference.
He is the father of Rev. Ward Taylor Sutherland (1857-1931) of the
Congregational Church.
SUTHERLAND,
FLETCHER
Born:
3-1-1816 Pittsford VT married:
Mary Brink
Died:
9-6-1888 Cambria Center NY obit: [1824 –
9/24/1867]
1839 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference
ordained deacon, Genesee Conference
ordained
elder
Interment:
Glenwood Cemetery, Lockport NY
Obit:
1842 discontinued
1843 readmitted
1843-44 Potter
mission [Coudersport]
1845 discontinued
Note:
Fletcher Sutherland a brother to Andrew Sutherland and to Carroll Sutherland (1814-1843),
also a member of the Genesee Conference.
He is the father of the world-famous Seven Sutherland Sisters. After leaving the ministry, he entered
politics. Mrs. Sutherland met her husband while she was studying music at
Genesee Wesleyan Seminary in Lima NY.
See Stickney’s 2012 The Amazing
Seven Sutherland Sisters: a biography of America’s first celebrity models.
SUTTON,
CLARENCE EUGENE
Born:
7-11-1873 Bath NY married: Margaret Lawrence
[1895]
Died:
4-29-1937 Bath NY obit: Genesee Conference
1898, 138
married2:
Mildred Elizabeth Baker [1898]
1892 license to preach obit2: Western New York
Conference 1965, 551
1896 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference
1899 ordained deacon, Genesee Conference
ordained
elder, Genesee Conference
Interment:
Obit:
Genesee Conference 1937, 361
1893-94 assistant, New York City Franklin
Street
1894-96 Palisades-on-the-Hudson
1896-97 Almond
1897-98 Covington
1898-01 Greenwood
1901-03 Arcade and Sandusky
1903-07 East Aurora
1907-09 Oakfield
1909-11 Livonia
SWALES,
WILLIAM MILNER
Born:
11-28-1881 England married:
Eleanor Horn
Died:
9-23-1967 Fillmore NY obit:
Western New York Conference 1974, 234
1903 license
1912 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference
1914 ordained deacon, Genesee Conference
ordained
elder
Interment:
Pine Grove Cemetery, Fillmore NY
Obit:
Western New York Conference 1968, 239
1903-11 Clayton-Le-Moors circuit, Lancashire
England
1911 “transfer” to Genesee Conference
1911-14 Pekin
1914-17 Hamlin
1917019 Clarendon and Hulburton
1919-21 Millville and East Shelby
1921-22 South Byron
1922-23 Spencerport
1923-25 Clarence
1925-26 Scio
1926-28 Bristol Center
1928-31 Knowlesville and Eagle Harbor
1931-33 Scottsburg and Conesus
1933-40 Prattsburg and Pulteney
1940- Lawrenceville
SWALLOW,
JOSEPH A.
Born:
8-26-1819 Peterborough, England married: Mary Mellon
Died:
9-21-1876 Newark NY obit:
Central New York Conference 1906, 166
1858 admitted on trial, East Genesee Conference
1860 ordained deacon, East Genesee Conference
ordained
elder, East Genesee Conference
Interment:
Marion Cemetery, Marion NY
Obit:
Genesee Conference 1876, 66
1858-60 Painted Post
1860-62 Tyrone
1862-63 Burdette and Reynoldsville
1863-65 East
Smithfield
1865-67 Watkins
1867-68 Pultneyville
1868-70 Port Gibson
1870-72 Manchester and Chapinville
1872 transfer to Central New York
Conference by change of boundaries
1876 transfer to Genesee Conference
by change of boundaries
SWARTZ,
BENTON SHELLY
Born:
1-30-1883 Erie County NY married: Clara
Ferguson
Died:
9-20-1972 NY obit: Western New
York Conference 1966, 824
1901 license
1907 admitted on trial, Northern New York
Conference
1909 ordained deacon, Northern New York Conference
ordained
elder
Interment:
Prospect Lawn Cemetery, Hamburg NY
Obit:
Western New York Conference 1973, 233
1903-04 Wind Gap, Philadelphia Conference
1904 Altoona Fairview, Central
Pennsylvania Conference
1904-06 Syracuse Woodlawn
1906 Belle Isle
1906-09 Deansboro
1909-10 Coldbrook and Russia
1910-11
1911-17 Navy YMCE, Shanghai China
1917-18 secretary, Methodist Centenary
1918 transfer to New York East
Conference
1918-19 secretary, Methodist Centenary
1919-22 Springdale CT
1922 transfer to Genesee Conference
1922-24 assistant, Buffalo Central Park
1924-30 executive secretary, Erie County
Council of Churches
1930-39 director of Christian Education,
Council of Churches of Buffalo and Erie County
1939-42 Somerset – County Line
1942-51 Lancaster
1951-55 Coudersport
– Sweden Valley
1955 retired
1963- associate,
Hamburg
SWEARINGEN,
CLIFTON E.
Born:
2-7-1882 Kensington OH married: Arta
Alles [10/20/1904]
Died:
1-11-1958 Dalton NY obit:
[2/?/1885 – 4/11/1915]
married2:
Ethel Blanche Bird [4/16/1916]
1914 license, Genesee Conference obit2: Genesee
Conference 1923, 712
1916 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference married3: Jennie Viola Bromley [1932]
1922 ordained deacon, Genesee Conference obit3: Western New York Conference
1975, 235
ordained elder
Interment:
Hunts Hollow Cemetery, Portage NY
Obit:
Genesee Conference 1958, 644
1916-18 County Line
1918-19 secretary, Army YMCA
1919-20 Lakeside
1920-24 Union Hill
1924-25 on leave
1924-25 Ontario
Congregational
1925-27 Kuckville and Kenyonville
1927-28 Buffalo Lackawanna
1928-29 Buffalo Calvary
1929-31 on leave
1931-36 Round
Top – Coolidge Hollow
1932-36 Whitneyville
– Catlin Hollow
1936-39 North
Bingham and Whitesville
1939-48 Westfield
– Brookfield – North Fork
1948-51 Hornell East Avenue - Almond
1951 retired
1951-55 Dalton
SWEET,
ELISHA
Born:
7-10-1810 Gorham NY married: Jane
Kilpatrick
Died:
9-7-1869 Knoxville PA obit: Central
New York Conference 1884, 94
1848 admitted on trial, East Genesee Conference
1851 ordained deacon, East Genesee Conference
ordained
elder, East Genesee Conference
Interment:
Riverside Cemetery, Knoxville PA
Obit:
East Genesee Conference 1870, 24
1848-49 Chemung
1849-51 Burlington
1851-52 Troy
1852-53 Frenchtown
(French Asylum)
1853-55 Chemung
1855-57 Jackson
1857-58 Canton
1858-60 Knoxville
1860-61 Westfield
1861-62 Cameron
1862-64 retired [on leave?]
1864-66 Whitesville
1866-68 Burlington
1868 retired
TALLANT,
JAMES EBLEN
Born:
9-9-1860 Bradley County TN married: Caledonia
Nichols
Died:
3-3-1941 Detroit MI obit:
Genesee Conference 1951, 782
1882 license to preach
1890 admitted on trial, Georgia Conference
1896 ordained deacon, Austin Conference
ordained
elder, Genesee Conference
Interment:
Grand Lawn Cemetery, Detroit MI
Obit:
Genesee Conference 1941, 270
1890-94 president, Ellijay Seminary in
Ellijay GA
1894 transfer to Austin Conference
1894-95 Gainesville TX
1895-96 Higgins and Lipscomb TX
1896-97 president, Holston Seminary in New
Market TN
1897 transfer to Genesee Conference
1897-01 Custer City
1901-05 Allentown
1905-06 Roulette
1906-07 Hinsdale
1907-10 East
Charleston
1910-13 Prattsburg
1913-15 Cameron
1915-18 Whitesville
1918-21 Springwater
1921-25 Buffalo Lackawanna
1925-27 Buffalo St. Mark’s
1927-31 Eden
1931 retired
Note:
The conference obituary for Mrs. Tallant gives the surname as Tallent.
TAYLOR,
ARCHIBALD BERT
Born:
9-5-1866 Allegany County NY married: Elizabeth Esley
Died:
7-6-1950 El Paso TK obit:
[2/1/1868 – 1/4/1941]
1889 license to preach
1893 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference
1895 ordained deacon, Genesee Conference
ordained
elder, Genesee Conference
Interment:
Evergreen Cemetery, El Paso TX
Obit:
Genesee Conference 1951, 774
1892-93 Rixford and Summit
1893-94 Mt. Alton
1894-05 Lincoln
1895-96 Alexander
1896-98 East Elba
1898-00 Fowlerville
1900-03 Gaines
1903-06 Greenwood
1906-09 Evans and Brant
1909-11 Lakeside and Ontario
1911-13 North Cohocton
1913-16 Canaseraga
1916-19 Almond
1919-21 Conesus
1921-22 Osceola
1922-24 West Valley
1924 retired
TAYLOR,
JASPER SCOTT
Born:
7-20-1840 Franklindale PA married: Inez F.
(L.) Moger
Died: 6-19-1917 Athens PA obit:
[2/10/1846 – 1921]
? license, Central New York Conference
Interment:
Tioga Point Cemetery, Athens PA
Obit:
1905-07 Terrytown
and New Era
1907-08 Rutland
1908-09 Liberty
Corners and Asylum
“transfer” to Wyoming
Conference
1910-13 Litchfield
1913-14 Slaterville
Note: J.S. Taylor served as a supply preacher in
the Methodist Episcopal Church. His
credentials are uncertain, but he appears to have been previously associated
with another denomination. He is listed
in the 1880 census as a lumberman in Cherry township, Sullivan County. Jasper and Inez Taylor are listed as members
of the Presbyterian Church in Bernice, Sullivan County, before having their
names erased October 27, 1893, with the notation “joined another church.”
TAYLOR,
WILLIAM DEWITT.
Born:
9-24-1831 Jerusalem NY married:
Died:
12-16-1892 Canoe Camp PA obit: [d.1855?]
married2:
Harriet Sophia Hayes [7/19/1860]
1859 admitted on trial, East Genesee Conference obit2: Genesee Conference 1887, 128
1862 ordained deacon, East Genesee Conference
ordained
elder, East Genesee Conference
Interment:
Branchport Cemetery, Branchport NY
Obit:
Genesee Conference 1893, 141
1859-60 principal, Prattsburg Academy
1860-61 Bloomville and Italy Hollow
1861-63 principal, Bloomfield Academy
1863-64 principal,
Mansfield State Normal Academy
1864-65 Bath
1865-66 Dresden
1866-67 Hammondsport
1867-69 Angelica
1869-72 Mansfield
1872 transfer to Central New York
Conference by change of boundaries
1875 located
1879 “transfer” to Genesee Conference
TERRILL,
CHARLES L.
Born:
12-17-1877 married:
Carrie Woodard
Died:
3-19-1958 obit:
Central New York Conference 1961, 156
1916 license, Central New York Conference
Interment:
Obit:
Central New York Conference 1958, 146
1916-18 Bethel, Ira
1918-20 East
Troy, West Burlington
1920-23 Odessa, Catherine, Alpine
1923-25 New
Albany, New Era, Overton
1925-28 Wellsburg, Loman
1928-30 Mecklenberg, Cayutaville
1930-32 New Hope, Kelloggsville
1932-35 Vanna, Ellis
1935-36 Ledyard, Venice Center, W. Genoa
1936-39 Tyrone
1939-48 Millerton,
Jackson Center
1948-50 Danby
1950 retired
Note:
C.L. Terrill served as a supply preacher.
THOMPSON,
GEORGE C.
Born:
1-15-1817 Nanticoke PA married:
Died:
9-18-1846 Utica NY obit:
1836 license
1840 admitted on trial, Oneida Conference
1840 ordained deacon
1842 ordained elder
Interment:
Obit:
General Minutes 1848, 257
1840 assistant,
Bethany and Honesdale circuit
1840-41 Dundaff
1841-43 Montrose
circuit
Note:
George C. Thompson was afflicted with a recurring condition and fondly
supported by the Conference. He died at
the New York Lunatic Asylum in Utica NY
THOMPSON,
JOSHUA
Born:
1-27-1825 Canandaigua NY married: Sarah Jane
Hathaway
Died:
2-3-1900 Rochester NY obit: Genesee
Conference 1889, 131
1859 admitted on trial, East Genesee Conference
1861 ordained deacon, East Genesee Conference
ordained
elder, East Genesee Conference
Interment:
Mount Hope Cemetery, Rochester NY
Obit:
Genesee Conference 1900, 135
1859-60 Frenchtown
1860-61 Cameron
1861-62 Monterey
1862-63 Tyrone
1863-64 Potter
1864-66 Pulteney
1866-68 Canton
1868-69 South Dansville
1869-72 on leave
1872 transfer to Central New York
Conference by change of boundaries
1876 transfer to Genesee Conference
by change of boundaries
TILT,
EDWIN MAJORY
Born:
4-23-1902 married:
Priscilla C. Crunley
Died:
6-23-1990 obit: Western
Pennsylvania Conference 1989, 422
1931 license
1951 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference
1953 ordained deacon, Genesee Conference
ordained
elder
Interment:
Evergreen Union Cemetery, Waverly OH
Obit:
Western Pennsylvania Conference 1991, 340
1931-34 Vienna and James ChapelNJ
1934-38 Mount Hermon NJ
1938-41 Scottsville
1941-47 Bristol Center
1947-52 Kanona – Wheeler – Towlesville
1950-52 Mitchelville
1952-53 Ulysses
– Gold
1953- Machias – Sandusky
TINKER,
EZRA W.
Born:
1843 married:
Sarah Janette Wright
Died:
4-17-1911 Marine City MI obit: Central New
York Conference 1906, 166
married2:
Cora A. Damon [1907]
1865 admitted on trial, East Genesee Conference obit2: Detroit Conference 1937, 310
1867 ordained deacon, East Genesee Conference
ordained
elder, ? Conference
Interment:
Lakeview Cemetery, Penn Yan NY
Obit:
Detroit Conference 1911, 416
1865-66 Prattsburg
1866-67 Harmonyville
1867-68 Macedon
1868-69 Canton
1869 transfer to New York Conference
1880 transfer to New England Southern
Conference
1884 transfer to Maine Conference
1888 transfer to New York Conference
1896 transfer to Wilmington
Conference
1898 transfer to Central New York
Conference
1898- Towanda
Note:
Ezra Tinker is described as “S.T.D., LL.D” and appears to have been an
“oratorical preacher” assigned to various large churches around the
country. The second Mrs. Tinker is the
daughter of Albert Nelson Damon.
TITUS,
CHARLES EDSON
Born:
5-27-1900 Chelsea VT married:
Frances Muriel Kendall (1926)
Died:
7-25-1976 Warsaw NY obit:
[8/4/1902 – 2/18/1983]
1928 license
1928 admitted on trial, Maine Conference
1930 ordained deacon, Maine Conference
ordained
elder
Interment: Warsaw Cemetery, Warsaw NY
Obit:
Western New York Conference 1977, 277
1928-34 Wiscasset larger parish
1934 transfer to Genesee Conference
1934-39 Warrens Corners – East Wilson
1935-39 Pendleton
Center
1939-42 Lancaster
1942-47 chaplain, U.S. Army
1947-51 Wellsboro
1951-
North Tonawanda
TORKINGTON,
JOHN WILLIAM
Born:
4-25-1872 Bury, England married: Alice
_____
Died:
1934 Baltimore MD obit: [1871 – 1958]
1887 license to preach
1899 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference
1901 ordained deacon, Genesee Conference
ordained
elder, Genesee Conference
Interment:
St. George’s Episcopal Church Cemetery, Mount Savage MD
Obit:
1896-98 missionary to Africa
1898-00 Sweden
Valley
1900-02 Harrison
Valley
1902-05 Tioga
and Farmington
1905-08 Cohocton
1908-11 Corning Grace
…
1913 “transfer” to Episcopal Church,
Diocese of Harrisburg
1913- Northumberland St. Mark’s,
Catawissa St. John’s and Milton Christ (beginning 7/1/1913)
Wellsboro St. Paul’s
1922-34 Mount Savage MD St. George’s
Note:
A picture of John William Torkington is given in the 2016 175th
anniversary booklet for Mount Savage St. George’s.
TOTTEN,
JOSEPH WILLIAM
Born:
4-23-1855 Steuben County NY married: Zilpha L. Linza
Died:
9-20-1940 Hornell NY obit:
[5/2/1851 – 3/23/1928]
1905 license to exhort, Genesee Conference
1908 license to preach, Genesee Conference
Interment:
Rural Cemetery, Hornell NY
Obit:
1908-11 Ansonia
1911-13 Lindley and Presho
1913-17 Keeneyville
1917-18 Fremont and Big Creek
1918-19 Towlesville and Sherer
1919-20 Delmar
and Ansonia
1920-21 Keeneyville
1921-24 Wheeler
Note:
Joseph W. Totten supplied appointments as a local pastor. He is listed the Genesee Conference journal
as a local pastor/exhorter through 1936.
TOWNER,
JOSEPH
Born:
3-14-1797 married:
Amelia Emily Pratt
Died: 4-12-1854 Rome PA obit:
[5/12/1799 – 11/6/1859]
1826 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference
Interment:
McCabe Farm Cemetery, Rome PA
Obit:
1826-27 Tioga circuit [Forksville, etc.]
1827-28 Spencer
1828 discontinued
1829 “transfer” to Oneida Conference by
boundary change
1849-50 Orwell
1851-52 Litchfield
1852
“transfer” to Wyoming Conference by boundary change
1852-53
Litchfield
1853-54
LeRaysville
Note: Joseph Towner is the father of Isaac Pratt
Towner (1822-1887) of the Wyoming Conference and the brother of Rev. Benjamin
Towner (1803-1866), affiliation unknown, who was also known as a great singer. Joseph is, through noted musician son John
Griffin Towner (1825-1870), the grandfather of the even more noted gospel
songwriter Daniel Brink Towner (1850-1919).
As Joseph Towner is named in several sources as a “prominent Methodist
preacher” and officiated at marriages and funerals after 1828, he apparently
continued as a local preacher.
TRACY,
BENJAMIN JACKSON
Born:
3-9-1840 Townsend NY married: Ella
Eugenia Wyman
Died:
1-13-1915 Onondaga County NY obit: Central New York
Conference 1935, 688
1869 admitted on trial, East Genesee Conference
1871 ordained deacon, East Genesee Conference
ordained
elder, East Genesee Conference
Interment:
Nettle Valley Cemetery, Potter NY
Obit:
Central New York Conference 1915, 136
1869-70 Fremont
1870-72 Springfield
1872 transfer to Central New York
Conference by change of boundaries
1876 transfer to Genesee Conference
by change of boundaries
1880 transfer to Central New York
Conference by change of boundaries
TRANSUE,
GEORGE SMITH
Born:
11-4-1837 Smithfield PA married: Mary
Jane Nye
Died:
2-20-1916 Cardiff NY obit:
Central New York Conference 1905, 148
married2:
Laura Parks
1862 license to exhort obit2:
1867 admitted on trial, East Genesee Conference
1869 ordained deacon, East Genesee Conference
ordained
elder, East Genesee Conference
Interment:
Bellona Cemetery, Bellona NY
Obit:
Central New York Conference 1916, 139
1865-66 Rush, Wyoming Conference (part year)
1966-67 Franklinville (part year)
1867-68 Forksville
1868-70 Monroeton
1870-72 East
Charleston
1872 transfer to Central New York
Conference by change of boundaries
1872-73 East
Charleston
1873-76 Burlington
1876 transfer to Genesee Conference
by change of boundaries
1876-78 Westfield
1878-80 Potter
1880 transfer to Central New York
Conference by change of boundaries
1880-83 Bellona
1883-86 Williamson
1886-89 Liverpool
1889-90 Montour Falls
1890-93 Rose
1893-95 Union Springs
1895-98 Jamesville and DeWitt
1898-04 Solvay
1904-05 on leave
1905
Truxton (part year)
1905-06 conference evangelist
1906
Marion (part year)
1906-08 DeWitt
1908-09 Reading Center
1909-10 Mottville and Skaneateles Falls
1910- Syracuse Olivet
TRICKETT,
ALBERT
Born:
12-26-1881 England married:
Maude Mary Sramley
Died:
2-24-1962 obit:
Central New York Conference 1940, 111
1900 license to preach, Central New York Conference
1913 admitted on trial
1917 ordained deacon
1919 ordained elder
Interment:
Lakeview Cemetery, Ithaca NY
Obit:
Central New York Conference 1962, 154
1915-16 Forksville
1916-19 East
Canton
1919-21 Newfield and Trumble’s
1921 transfer to Northern New York
Conference
1921-22 Felts Mills
1922 transfer to East Ohio Conference
1923 transfer to Northern New York
Conference
1923-24 Turin
1924 Madrid
1924 transfer to Central New York
Conference
1924-26 Sodus Point
TROWBRIDGE,
ORRIN ALONZO
Born:
10-29-1809 Tully NY married:
Martha A. Ganung
Died:
4-5-1891 Newark NY obit:
Central New York Conference 1892, 107
1839 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference
1841 ordained deacon, Genesee Conference
ordained elder,
Genesee Conference
Interment:
Newark Cemetery, Newark NY
Obit:
Central New York Conference 1891, 124
1848 charter member of East Genesee
Conference
1848-50 Covington
1850-52 Victor
1852-54 Pultneyville
1854-56 Lodi
1856-58 Waterloo
1858-59 Benson Center
1859-60 Walworth
1860-61 Mt. Morris
1861-63 South Sodus
1863-65 retired [on leave?]
1865-66 Taylorsville
1866-67 Canadice
1867-70 on leave
1870 retired
1872 transfer
to Central New York Conference by change of boundaries
1876 transfer
to Genesee Conference by change of boundaries
1880 transfer
to Central New York Conference by change of boundaries
TROWBRIDGE,
WILLIAM PERRY
Born:
11-10-1872 Greenwood NY married: Mabelle E.
Young
Died:
1945 obit:
[1882-1961]
1885 license to preach
1899 ordained local deacon
1900 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference
1903 ordained deacon, Genesee Conference
ordained
elder, Genesee Conference
Interment:
Greenwood Cemetery, Greenwood NY
Obit:
1896-97 Sweden
Valley (6 months)
1899-00 Hamlin (6 months)
1900-01 County Line
1901-03 Pekin
1903-05 Jasper
1905-06 on leave
1906-10 Knoxville
1910-11 Hammondsport
…
1924 withdrew
TURTON,
JOSEPH J.
Born:
8-24-1831 Hull, England married: Sophia
Boardman
Died:
8-26-1915 obit:
Central New York Conference 1886, 103
married2:
Mary L. Robinson
1856 admitted on trial, East Genesee Conference obit2: Central New York Conference 1924, 156
1858 ordained deacon, East Genesee Conference
ordained
elder, East Genesee Conference
Interment:
Hope Cemetery, Perry NY
Obit:
Central New York Conference 1915, 141
1856-57 Enfield
1857-58 Towlesville
1858-59 Westfield
1859-60 Camisteo
1860-61 Kanona
1861-62 Baldwin
1862-63 Grove
1863-64 West Almond
1864-65 Fremont
1865-67 Jasper
1867-69 Lawrenceville
and Tioga
1869-71 East
Canton
1871-71 Ulster
1872 transfer to Central New York
Conference by change of boundaries
1972-75 Liberty
Corners
1875-78 Onondaga Valley
1878-81 South Onondaga
1881-82 Pratt’s Hollow
1882-84 Euclid
1884-86 Summit Station
1886-87 Conquest
Note: This surname also appears as TURTIN.
UNDERHILL,
ALFRED LIONEL
Born:
5-12-1897 married:
Florice W. Arnburg (1921)
Died:
3-22-1980 Wayland NY obit: Genesee
Conference 1942, 465
married2:
Mrs. Nina Adams Cavagnaro (1942)
1920 license obit
2: Western New York Conference 1987, 338
1921 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference
1924 ordained deacon, Genesee Conference
ordained
elder
Interment:
Obit:
Western New York Conference 1980, 303
1921-22 Kanona
1922-24 Bergen
1924-27 Depew – Bomanville
1927-29 Wilson
1929-31 Galeton
1931-34 Avoca – Wallace
1934-39 Hornell – Spencer
1939-47 Wayland
1947-50 Buffalo Trinity
1950-63 Middleport
Note:
The second Mrs. Underhill (nee Adams) was the widow of a Mr. George Lionel
Cavagnaro (1887-1942).
VAN
DUREN, PETER
Born:
5-10-1880 Groede, Netherlands married: Minnie A. Cobbett
Died:
5-11-1956 Buffalo NY obit:
Genesee Conference 1929, 320
1920 license, Genesee Conference
1922 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference
1925 ordained deacon, Genesee Conference
ordained
elder
Interment:
Greenwood Cemetery, Greenwood NY
Obit:
Genesee Conference 1956, 156
1920-22 Freemont
1922-25 Greenwood
1925-28 Lawrenceville
1928-31 Elkland
1931-38 Ransomville
1938- Ferrick City
VAN
KEUREN, FRANK HERBERT
Born:
12-16-1860 Bradford NY married: Kitty
Louise Barber
Died:
1-31-1945 obit:
Genesee Conference 1954, 593
1883 license to preach
1884 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference
1886 ordained deacon, Genesee Conference
ordained
elder, Genesee Conference
Interment:
Seamans Cemetery, Savona NY
Obit:
Genesee Conference 1945, 323
1884-87 Covington
and Lamb’s Creek
1887-89 Rathboneville
1889-91 Lawrenceville and Lindley
1891-96 Hornellsville East Avenue
1896-99 Painted Post
1899-01 Buffalo Linwood Avenue
1901-04 Coudersport
1904-09 Wellsville
1909-12
Honeoye Falls
1912 retired
1926-40 Bradford
VAN
KIRK, JOHN
Born:
12-19-1838 Milford PA married:
Jennie F. Ferguson
Died:
9-11-1911 Elmira NY obit:
Central New York Conference 1903, 122
married2:
Mrs. Alina G. Fanning Ballard [1905]
1859 license to exhort obit2: Central New York
1927, 816
1870 license to preach
1871 admitted on trial, East Genesee Conference
1873 ordained deacon, Central New York Conference
1875 ordained elder, Central New York Conference
Interment:
Webb Mills Cemetery, Webb Mills NY
Obit:
Central New York Conference 1911, 170
1865-66 Otterville
1869-70 Willawanna (part year)
1870-72 Wilmot
1872 transfer to Central New York
Conference by change of boundaries
1872-73 Farmington
1873-74 Mainesburg
1874-76 Rutland
1876 transfer to Genesee Conference
by change of boundaries
1876-78 Forksville
1878-79 East
Troy and Columbia
1879-80 Monroeton
1880 transfer to Central New York
Conference by change of boundaries
1880-81 Monroeton
1881-82 on leave
1882-83 Canton
1883 retired
Note:
The second Mrs. Van Kirk (nee Fanning) was the widow of a Mr. Ballard.
VAN NOTE, GEORGE HENRY
Born: 12-30-1860
Farmingdale NJ married:
Hester Ellen Hurley
Died: 9-9-1930 Gloucester
NJ obit:
[b. 2/?/1862]
Interment: Evergreen Cemetery, Farmingdale NJ
Obit:
1916-17 Coles
Creek, Pennsylvania Conference MP
1917-18 Albany,
Pennsylvania Conference MP
…
1919-21 Terrytown and New Era, Central New York Conference
ME (did not finish second year)
Note: George H. Van Note is
the father of Almira C. Van Note Goff, wife of Rev. George S. Goff (1875-1916)
of the New Jersey Conference ME. He reportedly
served in the New Jersey Conference MW, perhaps as a local/supply preacher (as
he did in the Central New York Conference ME), before serving in the
Pennsylvania Conference.
VAN
SCOY, EARLE HARRISON
Born:
2-18-1888 Italy Hill NY married: Mabel
L. Whelpley
Died:
2-11-1978 Lakeland FL obit: Central
New York Conference 1978, 245
1912 admitted on trial, Central New York
Conference
1914 ordained deacon, Central New York Conference
ordained
elder
Interment:
Lakeland Memorial Gardens, Lakeland FL
Obit:
Central New York Conference 1978, 244
1911-13 Wayne, Barrington
1913-14 Marion
1914-15 Chittenango
1915-16 Freetown
1916-18 Cardiff, Onativia
1918-22 DeRuyter, Shedds
1922-24 East
Troy, Leona, West Burlington
1924-28 Cincinnaris
1928-33 Lysander, Little Utica
1933-40 Ovid, Varick
1940-49 Savannah, Tyre
1949-54 Cicero
1954 retired
VIDEAN,
RICHARD
Born:
3-23-1825 Lenham, England married: Sylvia Eliza
Sampson
Died:
9-10-1884 Forksville PA obit: Central
New York Conference 1893, 109
1865 admitted on trial, East Genesee Conference
1867 ordained deacon, East Genesee Conference
ordained
elder, East Genesee Conference
Interment:
Fairmount Cemetery, Forksville PA
Obit:
Central New York Conference 2884, 88
1846-47 Blockhouse [Liberty]
1847-59 no appointment for health reasons,
living on small farm west of Covington
1859-60 East Charleston
…
1865-66 Forksville
1866-68 East
Smithfield
1868-70 Bristol
1870-71 Enfield
1871-72 Wellsburg
1872 transfer to Central New York
Conference by change of boundaries
1876 transfer to Genesee Conference
by change of boundaries
1882 transfer to Central New York
Conference
Note:
This surname appears in the early records as VIDEAU.
VanderBURG,
CARL MARX
Born:
1915 married:
Mildred Ruth Guiles
Died:
2009 obit:
[1915 – 2009]
1942 license
1943 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference
1947 ordained deacon, Genesee Conference
ordained
elder
Interment:
Pleasant Valley West Cemetery, Springwater NY
Obit:
1941-48 Knoxville
1942-43 Nelson
– Tompkins
1948-52 Dansville – Sparta
1952-61 Painted Post – Campbell
1961- Penfield
Note:
Carl and Mildred VanderBurg apparently were living in Michigan in 1937 when
their son was born.
WAGNER,
H.R.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Interment:
Obit:
1895- Little
Marsh
WALKER,
CHARLES WESLEY
Born:
2-21-1876 Rochester NY married: Stella
Slocum [1904]
Died:
11-30-1944 Clifton Springs NY obit: [3/?/1885 - ?]
1902 license to preach
1905 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference
1908 ordained deacon, Genesee Conference
ordained
elder, Genesee Conference
Interment:
Mount Hope Cemetery, Rochester NY
Obit:
Genesee Conference
1902-05 Roulette
1905-07 Ellicottville
1907-11 Belfast
WARRINER,
HOWARD B. JR
Born:
4-2-1935 Greenwood NY married:
Died:
10-8-2012 Rochester NY obit:
license
admitted
on trial
ordained
deacon
ordained
elder
Interment:
Greenwood Cemetery, Greenwood NY
Obit:
Western New York Conference 2013, ?
1956-57 Roulette
– Fishing Creek (part year)
1957-59 Belfast – Oramel
1959- Springwater – Canadice
WATSON,
LORENZO DOW
Born:
12-15-1838 Allegany County MD married: Elnora Lawrence
Died:
10-6-1915 Brooklyn NY obit: Genesee
Conference 1921, 297
1859 license, East Baltimore Conference
1860 admitted on trial, East Baltimore
Conference: recommended by Cumberland MD circuit
Interment:
Cypress Hills Cemetery, Brooklyn NY
Obit:
Genesee Conference 1916, 116
1859-60 Cumberland circuit (last part of year)
1860-61 McConnellsburg
1861-62 Glen Hope
1862-63 New
Grenada
1863 located
1866 “transfer” to New York East
Conference
1866-67 Durham CT
1867-69 Berlin CT
1869-70 Cornwall Bridge CT
1870-71 located
1870-71 faculty, Mansfield University
1871 “transfer” to East Genesee
Conference
1871-72 East
Canton PA
1872 transfer by boundary change to
Central New York Conference
1872 transfer to Genesee Conference
1872-74 Rochester Asbury
1874-78 superintendent, Olean District
1878-80 Spencerport
1880-83 Tonawanda
1883-85 superintendent, Bath District
1885-88 on leave
1888-92 retired
1892-93 Painted Post
1893-96 Honeoye Falls
1896-99 Albion
1899-02
East Aurora and Springbrook
1902-03 assistant, Buffalo Delaware Avenue
1903-04 Temperance evangelist
1904-05 editor, Buffalo Christian Advocate
1905-07 faculty, Taylor University in Upland
IN
1907 retired
Note:
Dr. Lorenzo Dow Watson prepared for college at Allegheny Seminary in Rainsburg
PA. He has degrees from various schools,
including a PhD. from Syracuse University.
He served as a principal in Canton and on the faculty at the State
Normal School on Mansfield and at Taylor University in Upland IN.
WEAVER,
FRANKLIN A.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Central New York Conference
1953 admitted on trial, Central New York
Conference
1955 ordained deacon, Central New York Conference
ordained
elder
Interment:
Obit:
Central New York Conference
1953-55 student
1955-58 Webbs Mills
1955-57 Daggett, Roseville
1958- Nedrow, Onondaga Indian Mission
Phoenix First
Note:
Franklin A. Weaver is the son of Franklin J. Weaver. He was living in Phoenix NY at least from
1984 to 1996.
WEAVER,
FRANKLIN JAMES
Born:
11-11-1901 Elmira NY married: Agnes E.
Richardson
Died:
4-1-1984 Syracuse NY obit: [4/23/1908 –
8/5/1996]
1955 admitted on trial, Central New York
Conference
1957 ordained deacon, Central New York Conference
ordained
elder
Interment:
Greenlawn Cemetery, Warners NY
Obit:
Central New York Conference 1984, 198
1948-52 Newtown Creek
1952-57 Sugar
Creek parish
1957-74 Solvay Asbury
1957-60 Christ
Community
1974 retired
Note:
Franklin J. Weaver is the father of Franklin A. Weaver.
WEAVER,
OTIS BIGELOW
Born:
1-19-1825 Van Buren NY married: Lucina
Orissa Mann
Died:
8-6-1903 Westfield PA obit:
Genesee Conference 1901, 142
1856 admitted on trial, East Genesee Conference
1858 ordained deacon, East Genesee Conference
ordained
elder, East Genesee Conference
Interment:
Hope Cemetery, Hornell NY
Obit:
Genesee Conference 1903, 148
1856-57 Rush
1857-58 Conesus
1858-60 Italy
1860-62 Pulteney
1862-65 Enfield
1865-68 Knoxville
1868-71 Westfield
1871-72 Gaines
1872 transfer to Central New York
Conference by change of boundaries
1876 transfer to Genesee Conference
by change of boundaries
WEAVER,
THEODORE L.
Born:
5-?-1849 NY married: Clara
Minier
Died:
8-3-1912 Warren County PA obit: [12/?/1849 –
1915]
1868 admitted on trial, East Genesee Conference
1870 ordained deacon, East Genesee Conference
1872 ordained elder, Central New York Conference
Interment:
Warren State Hospital Cemetery, North Warren PA
Obit:
1868-69 Pine
Creek
1869-71 Ulster
1871-72 Farmington
1872 transfer to Central New York
Conference by change of boundaries
1872-75 Gorham and Oaks
1875-76 Fairville
1876 transfer to Genesee Conference
by change of boundaries
1876 expelled
Note:
The 12/17/1886 Canton Independent-Sentinel reports the following: “Theodore L. Weaver, of Elmira, was arrested on Sunday upon a charge of forgery.
Weaver was at one time a Methodist preacher and afterwards applied for
admission to the Baptist ministry. He was prominently associated with the
anti-saloon movement, the prohibition party, and was the founder of an order
called "the white cross and blue rosette." His father is a
distinguished preacher, and the friends of the young man claim that he has
become insane from the use of opium.”
WEED,
FREDERICK EDISON
Born:
8-1-1886 Bristol NY married:
Frances Maybelle Crooker
Died:
10-26- 964 NY obit:
[12/25/1896 – 2/27/1983]
license
Interment:
Clearview Cemetery, North Cohocton NY
Obit:
1923-24 Delmar
Note:
Frederick Weed served as a supply preacher.
WEEKS,
CHARLES ROBERT
Born:
11-14-1824 married:
Lucretia Patience Babcock [1848]
Died:
4-17-1914 obit:
[12/8/1830 – 12/12/1875]
married2:
Mrs. Mary Jane Rogers Black [1877]
1864 admitted on trial, East Genesee Conference obit2: [1838-1908]
1866 ordained deacon, East Genesee Conference
ordained
elder, East Genesee Conference
Interment:
Pleasant Valley Cemetery, Tioga County PA
Obit:
1864-67 Charleston
1867-68 Monroeton
1868-69 Liberty
Corners
1869-72 Jackson
1872 transfer to Central New York
Conference by change of boundaries
1873-74 Knoxville
1876 transfer to Genesee Conference
by change of boundaries
Note:
In 1880’s, Charles Weeks is listed as a local preacher living Nelson PA. The second Mrs. Weeks (nee Rogers) was the
widow of a Mr. James Black (1821-1862).
WELLS,
WILLIAM FLETCHER
Born:
12-4-1856 Oswayo PA married:
Catharine Ann Hardy
Died:
9-5-1945 Buffalo NY obit:
Genesee Conference 1928, 117
1892 license to preach
1893 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference
1895 ordained deacon, Genesee Conference
ordained
elder, Genesee Conference
Interment:
Forest Lawn Cemetery, Buffalo NY
Obit:
Genesee Conference 1946, 525
1893-95 Farmersville
1895-98 Centerville and Farmersville
1898-04 Dalton and Grove
1904-06 Osceola
and Elkland
1906-07 Kendall
1907-10 East Aurora
1910-17 Lancaster and Bomansville
1917-18 superintendent, Children Home in
Williamsville NY
1918-21 Brockport
1921-24 Lockport Second
1924-28 Olcott
1928 retired
1929-38 Windom
Note:
William F. Wells graduated from the University of Buffalo Medical College in
1883 and was a practicing physician in Rushford NY before entering the
ministry. The first name of Mrs. Wells
is also given as Catherine.
WENTWORTH,
JOHN BROADHEAD
Born:
8-29-1823 Bristol NH married:
Clara M. Drew
Died:
8-6-1893 obit:
Genesee Conference 1891, 142
1851 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference
1853 ordained deacon, Genesee Conference
ordained
elder
Interment:
Boxwood Cemetery, Medina NY
Obit:
Genesee Conference 1893, 149
1851-53 principal,
Coudersport Academy
Perry
Buffalo Asbury
Williamsville
Batavia
Brockport
Buffalo St. Marks
Medina
Lockport First
LeRoy
1876 transfer to Rock River
Conference
1876-77 Evanston IL
1877 transfer to Genesee Conference
superintendent, Troy
District
superintendent, Genesee
District
Buffalo Grace
superintendent, Buffalo
District
WENTZ,
WILLIAM SOLON
Born:
1-28-1826 Binghamton NY married: Sarah L.
Smith
Died:
4-20-1881 Owego NY obit:
Wyoming Conference 1894, 85
1858 admitted on trial, Missouri Conference
1860 ordained deacon, Missouri Conference
Ordained elder, Missouri Conference
Interment:
Mount Hope Cemetery, Rochester NY
Obit: Wyoming Conference 1882, 46
1858-59 Shelbyville
1859-60 Hudson
1860-61 Independence
1861-62 Kansas City
1862-63 Hannibal
1863-64 superintendent, St. Joseph District
1864-65 superintendent, Little Rock District
1865-66 on leave
1866-67 Brunswick
1867-69 Brookfield
1869 transfer to East Genesee
Conference
1869-70 North Hector
1870-72 Troy
1872 transfer by boundary change to
Central New York Conference
1872-75 Mecklenburg
1875 transfer to Wyoming Conference
1875-77 Ashley
1877-79 Newark Valley
1879-81 Susquehanna
Note: A brief biography of William S. Wentz appears
in Chaffee’s 1904 History of the Wyoming
Conference, page 257.
WEST,
ANSON T.
Born:
4-1-1817 LeRoy NY married: Lydia Ann Brownson
Died:
7-27-1892 Livonia NY obit:
Genesee Conference 1903, 154
1850 admitted on trial, East Genesee Conference
1875 ordained deacon, Western New York Conference
ordained
elder, Genesee Conference
Interment:
Union Cemetery, Livonia NY
Obit:
Genesee Conference 1892, 119
1850-51 Chatham
mission
1851-52 Canton
1852 discontinued
1873 “transfer” to Western New York
Conference
1876 transfer to Genesee Conference
by change of boundaries
Note:
Mrs. West is the daughter of Rev. James Brownson (1794-1875) and granddaughter
of Rev. Salmon Brownson (d. 1834), both local preachers in the Genesee
Conference.
WHEELER,
MARION P.
Born:
1885 married:
Bessie S. Spence
Died:
1962 obit:
{6/9/1892 – 4/13/1972]
license
1920 ordained local deacon
1927 ordained local elder
Interment:
Greenwood Cemetery, Greenwood NY
Obit:
1924-26 Wellsboro
1926-28 Round
Top
1928-31 Delmar
1931
entered ministry of the
Baptist Church
Note:
Marion Wheeler served in the Genesee Conference as a local preacher.
WHEELER,
MERRIT THOMAS.
Born:
1842 married:
Lydia W. Baldwin [1868]
Died:
8-18-1932 obit:
[8/29/1847 – 4/15/1919]
1867 admitted on trial, East Genesee Conference
Interment:
Woodlawn Cemetery, Elmira NY
Obit:
1867-68 Columbia
1868-69 Charleston
1869 discontinued
Note:
This person is sometimes referred to MERRIT F. WHEELER, in which case the
Merrit T. Wheeler identified above is not the correct person – although it is
reported that “Merrit Thomas Wheeler attended Seminary in Lima NY in the summer
of1862 and was a devout Methodist,” and Lydia Baldwin is from Troy PA.
WHITE,
DAVID
Born:
12-2-1857 London, England married: Emma O.
_____
Died:
9-25-1910 Ulysses PA obit:
[4/2/1858 – 4/18/1938]
1883 license to preach
1887 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference
1889 ordained deacon, Genesee Conference
ordained
elder, Genesee Conference
Interment:
Ulysses Cemetery, Ulysses PA
Obit:
Genesee Conference 1910, 129
1883-84 Caneadea and Belleville
1886-87 Knoxville
(last 3 months)
1887-89 Bristol Center
1889-90 Clarkson
1890-92 Newfane and Olcott
1892-95 Pekin
1895-97 West Webster
1897-99 Campbell
1899-02 East
Charleston
1902-05 Scio
1905-07 Rushford and Caneadea
1907-10 Ulysses
and Gold
WHITING,
GEORGE M.
Born:
8-12-1880 married:
Eva B. _____
Died:
7-25-1968 Auburn NY obit: [1883
– 3/4/1972]
1915 admitted on trial, Central New York
Conference
1917 ordained deacon, Central New York Conference
ordained
elder
Interment:
Weedsport Rural Cemetery, Weedsport NY
Obit:
Central New York Conference 1969, 171 & 169
1910-13 Millport
1913-16 East
Canton
1916-19 Elmira Pennsylvania Avenue
1919-22 Troy
1922-28 Horseheads
1922-24 Sullivanville
1928-32 Weedsport
1929-32 Brick
Church
1932-40 Solvay Asbury
1940 retired
WIENAND,
CLARENCE HENRY
Born:
2-11-1911 Fort Smith AR married: Mildred
Evelyn Dickson (8/1/1937)
Died:
4-29-1983 Alamose CO obit: Genesee
Conference
1936 license, North Arkansas Conference
1937 admitted on trial, North Arkansas Conference
1939 ordained deacon, North Arkansas Conference
ordained
elder
Interment:
Obit:
Genesee Conference
1936-37 Rosebud
1938-40 Calt
1940-42 Pea Ridge
1942-44 Green Forest
1944-45 Huntington
1945 transfer to Genesee Conference
1945-47 Delevan – Yorkshire
1947-49 Hamlinb – Garland
1949-50 East Bloomfield – Allen’s Hill
1950-53 Westfield
– North Fork – Cowanesque
1953 transfer to St. Louis Conference
1961 transfer to Missouri East
Conference
WILBOR,
WILLIAM CHAMBERS
Born:
5-18-1852 Olean NY married:
Mary Viola Mitchell
Died:
4-12-1917 obit:
Genesee Conference 1933, 327
1872 license to preach
1876 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference
1878 ordained deacon, Genesee Conference
ordained
elder, Genesee Conference
Interment:
Forest Lawn Cemetery, Buffalo NY
Obit:
Genesee Conference 1917, 127
1872-73 Youngstown
1873-74 Wilson (first part); Pittsford
(second part)
1874-75 Charlotte
1875-76 East Falmouth Waquoit MA
1876 Angelica (part year)
1876-79 Attica
1879-80 Pike
1880-83 Mt. Morris
1883-86 Dansville
1886-90 LeRoy
1890-95 Buffalo Richmond Avenue
1895-00 Olean First
1900-02 Hornellsville Park
1902-05 Buffalo Plymouth
1905-06 superintendent, Blocher Homes in
Williamsville
1906 Lockport First (part year)
1906-08 superintendent, Buffalo District
1908-09 Rochester Corn Hill
1909-10 Coudersport
1910 retired
Note:
William C. Wilbor is the son of Rev. Albert D. Wilbor (1821-1903) of the
Genesee Conference and the nephew of the noted Rev. Carlton C. Wilbor (1842-1925)
of the Central New York Conference,
WILDMAN,
EDWIN
Born:
1-5-1829 Whitesville NY married: Helen
Pamela Rounsvelle
Died:
4-28-1887 Sorrento FL obit:
[3/30/1834 – 7/31/1869]
married2:
Jennie M. Smallwood [1874]
admitted
on trial, Genesee Conference obit2:
[7/15/1856 – 7/17/1917]
ordained
deacon, Genesee Conference
ordained
elder
Interment:
Oramel Cemetery, Oramel NY
Obit:
Genesee Conference 1887, 125
1863-64 Olean and Allegany
1864-66 principal, Batavia Collegiate
Institute
1866-68 principal, Corning Free Academy
1868-69 Coudersport
1869-73 principal, Perry Academy in Perry NY
1873-75 principal, Williamsport PA High
School
1875-76 located
1876-79 South Byron
1879-80 Middleport
1880-81 Niagara Falls St. Paul’s
1881- Barre
Note:
In 1894, the widowed second Mrs. Wildman married a Mr. Volney H. Badger.
WILKINSON,
GEORGE
Born:
11-25-1790 Tioga PA married:
Elmina Carey
Died:
2-7-1877 Painted Post NY obit: [8/8/1814 –
1/22/1848]
married2:
Mrs. Joanna Jones Leffler [12/11/1848]
1829 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference obit2: [10/10/1815 – 2/6/1899]
1831 ordained deacon, Genesee Conference
ordained
elder, Genesee Conference
Interment:
West High Street Cemetery, Painted Post NY
Obit:
Genesee Conference 1877, 61
1848 charter member of East Genesee
Conference
1848-49 Columbia
1849-52 located
1852-53 Enfield
1853-54 Erin
1854-55 Big Flats
1855-57 Hector
1857-58 Catherine
1858-59 Jacksonville
1859-61 Townsendville
1861-62 Groveland
1862-64 Livonia
1864-65 Birdsall
1865-66 Grove
1866-67 Towlesville
1867-70 Sparta
1870-71 West Almond
1871-72 Erwin Center
1872 transfer to Genesee Conference
by change of boundaries
Note:
The second Mrs. Wilkinson was the widow of a Mr. Richard D. Leffler
(1818-1846).
WILLIAMS,
BENAJAH
Born:
8-24-1789 Pownal VT married:
Jerusha Stanley Smith
Died:
1-22-1864 Glencoe OH obit:
[9/9/1791 – 9/6/1871]
1816 license
1818 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference
1820 ordained deacon, Genesee Conference
1822 ordained elder, Genesee Conference
Interment:
Evergreen Hill Cemetery, Chagrin Falls OH
Obit:
Genesee Conference 1864, 14
Old Bloomfield
Caledonia
Sweden NY
Batavia
Dansville
Plattsburg
Naples
Scottsville
Elba
Richmond
East Liberty
1838-40 living in Naples
1840-48 living in Chagrin Falls OH as
owner/operator of an iron foundry
1848-50 Coudersport
1850-51 Tarport
1851-52 Bradford
1852-53 New Hudson
1853 retired
Note:
Banajah Williams was opposed to extravagance and display. He dressed plainly, denounced music in and
steeples on church buildings, and refused love feasts to women who wore jewels,
artificial flowers or ruffles. He named
one of his ten children Lorenzo Dow Williams – who served briefly as president
of Allegheny College in Meadville PA. He
also had children named John Wesley, William McKendree and Andrew Jackson.
WILLIAMS,
C.A.
Born: married:
Died: obit:
license
Interment:
Obit:
1921-22 Ulysses
and Gold
1925-29 Galeton
Note: C.A. Williams served as a supply
preacher. He is listed as an
“undergraduate student.”
WILLIAMS,
EBENEZER BRAMBLY
Born:
3-20-1845 England married:
Died: obit:
1868 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference
1870 ordained deacon, Genesee Conference
ordained
elder
Interment:
Obit:
1868-69 Ceres, Honeoye, Oswayo
1869-70 Smethport
1870-72 Coudersport
1872-75 Cuba
1872-73 Black
Creek
1875-76 Portville
1876-70 Olean
1879-82 Andover
1882-85 Springville
1885-88 Angelica
1888-92 Mt. Morris
1892-93 Rush and Henrietta
1893 withdrew under charges
Note:
According to city directories, Ebenezer B. Williams was living in Rochester NY
in 1894, and in Batavia NY in 1931.
WILLIAMS,
JOHN EDWIN
Born:
10-1-1844 Kemptville, Ontario married: Eliza Stoddard
Died:
4-25-1916 Gowanda NY obit: Genesee
Conference 1922, 507
1869 license to preach
1872 admitted on trial, Central New York Conference
1874 ordained deacon, Central New York Conference
ordained
elder, Central New York Conference
Interment:
Boxwood Cemetery, Medina NY
Obit:
Genesee Conference 1916, 120
1872-73 Pultneyville
1873-75 Springfield
1875-76 Troy
1876 transfer to Genesee Conference
by change of boundaries
1876-78 Troy
1878-81 Rochester Alexander Street
1881-84 Medina
1884-87 Hornellsville Park
1887-90 Buffalo Plymouth
1890-96 superintendent, Buffalo District
1896-97 Buffalo Riverside
1897-99 Brockport
1899-03 Medina
1903-08 superintendent, Corning District
1908-11 superintendent, Central District
WILSON,
ROLLIN E.
Born:
8-12-1873 Fairfield PA married: Eva
K. Babcock
Died:
10-22-1958 Dansville NY obit: Genesee
Conference 1960, 191
1895 admitted on trial, Central Pennsylvania
Conference of the United Evangelical Church
1898 ordained deacon, Central Pennsylvania
Conference UE
1906 ordained elder, Central Pennsylvania
Conference UE
Interment:
Green Mount Cemetery, Dansville NY
Obit:
Genesee Conference 1959, 900
1895-97 Steuben NY
1897-02 student, Central Pennsylvania College
in New Berlin
1902-03 Susquehanna
1903-04 located
1903-04 Flycreek,
Wyoming Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church
1904-06 Steuben NY
1906-07 Mt. Rock
1907-09 York Bethany
1909 transfer to Wyoming Conference
of the Methodist Episcopal Church
1909-11 Hallstead
1911 transfer to Genesee Conference
1911-14 Allen’s Hill
1914-15 Conesus
1915-16 Cohocton
1916-17 Pulteney
1917-18 Cameron
1918-19 Delevan
1919-20 on leave
1920-22 Rushford
1922-25 Garland and Otis
1925-26 East Bloomfield
1926-27 Warren’s Corners
1927-28 Royalton and South Pendleton
1928-31 West Barre
1931-36 Alabama – Basom
1936-38 Genesee – Shongo
1938 retired
WINDSOR,
WILLIAM ELLIOTT
Born:
7-16-1855 married:
Olive Angeline Evans [3/26/1876]
Died:
10-15-1943 NY obit: [2/22/1860 –
3/3/1916]
married2:
Mrs. Eunice Dickinson Green [6/15/1927]
1893 license, Methodist Protestant Church obit2: Genesee Conference 1955, 831
1894 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference MP
1896 ordained deacon, Genesee Conference MP
ordained
elder
Interment:
Pleasant Lawn Cemetery, Parish NY
Obit:
Genesee Conference 1944, 117
1893-98 West Union
1898-01 Mills
1901-05 evangelist
1905-09 Stannards
1909-11 Elba
1911-15 Dugway
1915-21 Worth
1921-23 evangelist
1923-37 Stannards
1937 retired
1939
transfer by denominational union to Genesee Conference of the Methodist
Church
Note:
The second Mrs. Windsor (nee Dickinson) was the widow of a Mr. Oliver M. Green
who dies in 1917.
WITHAM,
HARRY HOWARD
Born:
2-21-1877 Stark NH married:
Hattie Marsh
Died:
6-16-1965 obit:
Genesee Conference 1958, 650
1897 license to preach
1901 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference
1901 ordained deacon, Genesee Conference
1903 ordained elder, Genesee Conference
Interment:
Williamsville Cemetery, Williamsville NY
Obit:
Western New York Conference 1966, 821
1901-03 Lawrenceville
1903-07 Macedon Center and Perinton
1907-11 Buffalo Central Park
1911-15 Wayland
1916-18 Coudersport
1918-20 Bradford First
1920-26 superintendent, Olean District
1926- executive secretary, Methodist
Children’s Home in Williamsville NY
WOOD,
ELIJAH
Born:
6-4-1819 Pittsfield MA married:
Sarah A. Cook
Died:
2-23-1880 Clifton Springs NY obit: [2/4/1827 –
10/21/1902]
1845 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference
1847 ordained deacon, Genesee Conference
ordained
elder, East Genesee Conference
Interment:
North Ridge Cemetery, North Ridge NY
Obit:
Genesee Conference 1880, 58
1848 charter member of East Genesee
Conference
1848-49 Avon
1849-50 Victor
1850-52 Seneca Falls
1852-54 Lodi
1854-56 Clyde
1856-58 Rochester Alexander Street
1858-60 Rushville
1860-62 Naples
1862-65 Towanda
1865-66 Dansville
1866-67 Nunda
1867 retired [on leave?]
1872 transfer to Central New York
Conference by change of boundaries
1876 transfer to Genesee Conference
by change of boundaries
1876-79 Coudersport
Note:
An obituary for Elijah Wood also appears in the 4/8/1880 Northern Christian Advocate, page 2. An obituary for Mrs. Wood appears in the
10/30/1902 Christian Advocate, page
1747.
WOOD,
LEVI
Born:
1830 married:
Julia Ann Palmer
Died:
9-3-1904 Bradford PA obit:
[5/5/1852 – 2/22/1912]
1850 admitted on trial, East Genesee Conference
1852 ordained deacon, East Genesee Conference
ordained
elder, East Genesee Conference
Interment:
Oak Hill Cemetery, Bradford PA
Obit:
1850-51 Fairville and Lock Berlin
1851-52 Southport
1852-54 Caton
1854-55 Wellsboro
circuit
1855-57 Frenchtown
1856-57 Monroeton
1857 located
Note:
Rev. Levi Wood left the Methodist Episcopal Church and was instrumental in the
formation of the Free Methodist Church 1858-60 and was second to B.T. Roberts
in the voting for that denomination’s first general superintendent. He founder and first editor of the
denomination’s newspaper The Free Methodist – and father of
missionary to Ceylon Katherine [Kitty] Wood Samara. An obituary appears in the 9/5/1904 Bradford Era, page 1.
WOODRUFF,
PERCY HILTON
Born:
6-29-1892 Hays NC married: Margaret A.
Leisinger
Died:
8-6-1960 NY obit: Western New
York Conference 1979, 340
1927 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference
1930 ordained deacon, Genesee Conference
ordained
elder
Interment:
United Cemeteries, Pittsburgh PA
Obit:
Genesee Conference 1961, 443
1922-26 Transfer
1926-28 Gaines
1928-36 Westfield
1936-40 Galeton
1940- Bowmansville Depew
WOOSTER,
SAMUEL WALTON
Born:
1-19-1800 married:
Nancy Ann Leach
Died:
10-22-1860 obit:
[9/12/1802 – 11/19/1853]
1829 admitted on trial, Genesee Conference
1831 ordained deacon, Genesee Conference
1833 ordained elder, Genesee Conference
Interment:
Pleasant Grove Cemetery, Jackson County MI
Obit:
1829-30 Sweden and Lockport
1830-32 Friendship
1832-34 Pike and Rushford
1834-36 Dansville and Groveland
1835-36 Genesco
1836-37 Mount Morris
1837-38 Palmyra
1838-39 Junius
1839-40 Clyde
…
1846-47 Jacksonville
1847-48 on leave
1848 charter member of East Genesee
Conference
1848-51 on leave
1848-49 Webster
1850-51 Jackson
1851 located
Note:
Samuel W. Wooster appears to have moved to Michigan 1849-50, returned east for
one year, and then moved back to Michigan.
WRIGHT,
JOHN WESLEY
Born:
6-13-1844 Springfield , Chester County,
PA married: Martha Allen
Died:
1-24-1923 Wyoming NY obit: Genesee
Conference 1920, 105
1867 license to preach
1868 admitted on trial, Philadelphia Conference
1875 ordained deacon, Erie Conference
1878 ordained elder, Erie Conference
Interment:
Forest Hills Cemetery, Belmont NY
Obit:
Genesee Conference 1923, 705
1868-69 Smyrna
1869-70 assistant, Cochranville
1870-71 Holmesburg
1871 discontinued
1875 “transfer” to Erie Conference
1875-77 Rouseville
1877-78 Cochranton
1878-79 Wattsburg
1879-81 Lockport
1881 transfer to Genesee Conference
1881-83 Duke Center
1883-84 Kendall Creek
1884-87 Coudersport
1877-90 Gowanda
1890-93 Avoca
1893-94 Smethport
1894-95 Olean Ninth Street
1895-97 Ulysses
1897-99 Prattsburg
1899-00 Derrick City
1900-01 Allentown
1901-06 Custer City
1906-07 Roulette
1907-10 Andover
1910-11 Scio
1911-17 Arcade
1917-21 Belmont
1921-24 Wyoming (ending 1/24/1923)
Note:
The father and grandfather of John W. Wright were reported to be local
preachers
WRIGHT,
MAURICE VINCENT
Born:
10-5-1881 Friendship NY married: Eva Christina
Prior
Died:
10-20-1918 Rushford NY obit: [9/?/1886
– 11/21/1963]
1903 license to preach
1905 admitted on trial, Vermont Conference
1908 ordained deacon, Genesee Conference
ordained
elder, Genesee Conference
Interment:
Mount Hope Cemetery, Friendship NY
Obit:
Genesee Conference 1919, 132
1904-05 Elmore and East Elmore VT
1905 transfer to Genesee Conference
1905-06 East Groveland
1906-08 Bliss and Eagle
1908-09 South Dansville
1909-10 Nelson
1910-11 Troupsburg
Note:
After the death of Maurice V. Wright, the widowed Mrs. Wright married a Mr.
James Arthur Rose (1883-1964).
YOUNG,
OWEN BARTHOL
Born:
1884 married:
Phebe C. Olmstead
Died:
5-18-1959 Wellsville NY obit: [6/16/1873
– 8/19/1961]
license
Interment:
Nichols Cemetery, Nichols NY
Obit:
1955-56 North
Bingham,
Whitesville and West Union
Note:
Owen B. Young served as a supply preacher.
Mrs. Young is a sister to James H. Olmstead.
NAME
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Central New York Conference
license
to exhort
license
to preach
admitted
on trial, East Genesee Conference
ordained
deacon, East Genesee Conference
ordained
elder, East Genesee Conference
Interment:
Obit:
Central New York Conference
1848 charter member of East Genesee
Conference
1872 transfer to Central New York
Conference by change of boundaries
1876 transfer to Genesee Conference
by change of boundaries
1880 transfer to Central New York
Conference by change of boundaries
NAME
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Genesee Conference
admitted
on trial, Genesee Conference
ordained
deacon, Genesee Conference
ordained
elder, Genesee Conference
Interment:
Obit:
Genesee Conference
1872 transfer to Central New York
Conference by change of boundaries
1876 transfer to Genesee Conference
by change of boundaries
NAME
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Genesee Conference
license
admitted
on trial, Genesee Conference
ordained
deacon, Genesee Conference
ordained
elder
Interment:
Obit:
Genesee Conference
JONES,JOHN
LLOYD
Born: married:
Died: obit:
Central New York Conference
license
to exhort
license
admitted
on trial, Central New York Conference
ordained
deacon, Central New York Conference
ordained
elder
Interment:
Obit:
Central New York Conference
1872 transfer to Central New York
Conference by change of boundaries
1876 transfer to Genesee Conference
by change of boundaries
1880 transfer to Central New York
Conference by change of boundaries