BIO: Dayton C. Barnes, 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 277.
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  Barnes, Dayton C., was born on September 14, 1834, in Bradford 
County, Pa., and was reared upon a farm. He was converted in 1848, 
during a series of revival services conducted by Rev. Levi Pitts. He 
was educated in the common schools and Le Raysville Academy. He taught 
school for some time, and for four years from seven to ten months in 
the year. On August 18, 1859, he married Miss Sarah E. Woodruff, of 
Orwell, Pa. In 1863 he responded to Governor Curtin's call for 
volunteers to defend the State, and served forty days in the State 
militia. In September, 1864, he was drafted into the United States 
service, and served in the army until the close of the war, being 
mustered out on May 5, 1865.
  In 1857 the class of which he was a member voted him an exhorter's 
license, which he refused, feeling unable to do the work. In 1869 he 
exercised his gifts in some special meetings, which led to his being 
licensed as a local preacher by the Wyalusing charge. In 1872 he 
supplied Wyalusing charge, and in 1873 joined Wyoming Conference. His 
brother, N. W. Barnes, has been a local preacher for many years, and 
has rendered exceptionally valuable service as supply within the bounds 
of our Conference.
  In 1900 he took a supernumerary relation, on account of the failing 
health of his wife, and now resides at Montrose, Pa.
  His pastoral record is as follows: 1873, Nicholson; 1874-75, Gibson 
and Harford; 1876-78, Factoryville; 1879, Orwell; 1880, Mount Upton; 
1881-83, New Berlin; 1884-86, Little Meadows; 1887-89, Vestal; 1890, 
Marathon; 1891-92, Brooklyn; 1893-94, Auburn; 1895-97, Falls; 1898-99, 
Lanesboro; 1900, sy., 1901-02, Conference Evangelist; 1903, sy.