BIO: Willard H. Alger, 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, page 271.
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  Alger, Willard H., was born on April 3, 1861, at Fly Creek, Otsego 
County, N.Y., and did his school work largely in the village school at 
Fly Creek. He was converted in the Methodist Episcopal church there. 
Subsequently he united with the Presbyterian church of Cooperstown, 
N.Y. He is a painter and paper-hanger by trade. He felt called for some 
time to preach the Gospel, but found no encouragement in the church to 
which he belonged. A revival which was being held in the Cooperstown 
Methodist Episcopal church made manifest his call. Subsequently he 
joined the Methodist Episcopal church at that place. He was given local 
preacher's license by the Otsego District Conference March 24, 1886; 
supplied Portlandville in 1888 and Portlandville and Westville in 1889, 
and joined Wyoming Conference in 1890. he was ordained deacon in 1892 
and elder in 1894.
 On September 20, 1882, he married Miss Genevieve Colburn, of Fly 
Creek, N.Y., who went to her reward on July 24, 1902. On August 16, 
1903, he married Miss Carrie M. Harrington, of Milford, N.Y.
  His pastoral record is as follows: 1890, West Nicholson; 1891-93, 
Laurens and Oneonta Plains; 1894-97, Sherburne; 1898-1901, Greene; 
1902-03, Milford.