BIO: Hiram G. Blair, 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 281-282.
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  Blair, Hiram G., was born in Waymart, Wayne County, Pa., in 1836. 
Soon after his birth the family moved to Carbondale, where he lived 
until seventeen years of age. While living in Carbondale he learned the 
printer's trade with an uncle who was publishing a newspaper in the 
place. From that time he was engaged in newspaper work in various 
places, notably in Deposit and Franklin, N.Y., Nashua and Manchester, 
N.H. 
  On October 23, 1860, he married Miss Caroline E. Morgan, of Nashua, 
N.H., who died in Lisle, N.Y., on May 30, 1895. Shortly after marriage 
he moved to Scranton, Pa. In August, 1862, he enlisted in Company E, 
149th Regiment (the famous Bucktails), and served until the end of the 
war. Was engaged in all of the battles of the Army of the Potomac from 
Chancellorsville to Hotchkiss Run. At the close of the war he settled 
in Scranton and was engaged on the Republican, then a weekly paper, and 
was foreman in the office when the first Daily Republican was 
published.
  He was converted in the Adams Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church in 
1872. He was a member of a praying band in Scranton which was very 
helpful to many churches in revival work. His first exhortation was in 
the Moscow Methodist Episcopal Church, in which the praying band was 
assisting the pastor, Rev. G. A. Severson, in revival work. He did 
considerable work as a singing evangelist for several years. In 1875 
the Simpson Church, of Hyde Park, gave him an exhorter's license. In 
1876 he was sent to South Danby, N.Y., as a supply, and was licensed by 
that church as a local preacher. In 1877 he joined the Conference.
  As will be seen by the above, his school days were limited. On 
September 14, 1897, he married Sarah Sherwood, of Hornbrook, Pa. In 
1897 he superannuated and settled in Hornbrook, where he now resides.
  His pastoral record is as follows: 1877-79, Harford; 1880, 
Flemingville; 1881, Litchfield; 1882, Hornbrook; 1883, Union Center; 
1884-85, Jackson; 1886-88, Kirkwood; 1889-90, Plymouth, N.Y.; 1891-92, 
Greene, 1893-94, Castle Creek; 1895, Lisle; 1896, Smyrna; 1897-1903, 
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