BIO: Charles S. Alexander, Wyoming Conference, Methodist Episcopal Church, PA & NY

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Chaffee, Amasa Franklin. History of the Wyoming 
Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. 
New York: Eaton & Mains, 1904, pages 270-271.
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  Alexander, Charles S., was born on June 15, 1843, at Hale's Eddy. He 
was educated in the village school at Hale's Eddy, and after his 
father's death his mother with her sons moved to Kingston, where he 
attended Wyoming Seminary four years. His father was a local preacher, 
and his brother Almus D. became a member of Wyoming Conference. He was 
converted when a small boy, and early felt called to the ministry, 
receiving exhorter's license in his eighteenth year, and local 
preacher's license about five years later. Before joining Conference in 
1870 he supplied Mill Hollow (now Luzerne) and Mountain Top. He spent 
two years in the United States service. He says he was brought up on a 
farm, and since he retired from the active work of the ministry "has 
been engaged in market gardening on a small scale."
  On November 17, 1869, he married Miss Mary E. Allen, daughter of Rev. 
A. P. Allen.
  His pastorates have been as follows: 1870-71, Spencer; 1872, Newark; 
1873-74, Tioga Center; 1875-76, Great Bend; 1877-79, Slaterville; 1880, 
Triangle; 1881, sy.; s882, Oakland; 1883-1903, sd.