BIO: Williams T. 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, page 284.
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  Blair, Williams T., was born on April 26, 1861, at Kingston, Pa. His 
schooling was largely in the Carbondale High School. He was converted 
on March 3, 1883, and at once felt called to the ministry. He united 
with the Carbondale Methodist Episcopal Church, which subsequently gave 
him exhorter's and local preacher's licenses. He worked as shipping 
clerk for the Delaware and Hudson Canal Company in Carbondale eleven 
years. He served the Sunday school of the Carbondale Methodist 
Episcopal Church as superintendent two years, and also was president of 
the Carbondale Young Men's Christian Association two years.
  On September 13, 1883, he married Miss Mary Strickland, of 
Carbondale.
  He supplied Bainbridge charge part of 1889, in place of Rev. H. B. 
Cook, who went West in search of health, and in 1890 joined the 
Conference.
  His pastoral record is as follows: 1890, Bainbridge; 1891-93, 
Cooperstown; 1894-98, Mount Upton; 1899-1900, Whitney's Point; 1901, 
Lehman; 1902-03, Wyoming.