BIO: George H. Blakeslee, 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 158-159.
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  BLAKESLEE, GEORGE HARMON, was born in Springville, Susquehanna 
County, Pa., October 28, 1819, and died at the home of his son-in-law, 
Professor Stowell, at Cortland, N.Y., on July 26, 1876.
  His father's home was for many years a home for the early itinerant 
preachers.  He found peace in believing May 19, 1834.  He was licensed 
to exhort in 1837, and given local preacher's license in 1840.  He was 
soon employed as junior preacher on Canaan Circuit, and in August, 
1841, was admitted to the Oneida Conference on trial, and became a 
member of Wyoming Conference at its organization.
  On May 14, 1845, he married Miss Hester Ann Cargill, of Jackson, Pa.  
In 1867 he took a supernumerary relation and moved to Lima, N.Y., in 
order to educate his children in the seminary and college located in 
the place.  He remained in Lima four years, and supplied charges in 
that section during the time.  Six children were born to them:  Rev. F. 
D. Blakeslee, D.D., president of Cazenovia Seminary; Erasmus Darwin, 
who, after teaching several years in the Potsdam State Normal School, 
studied law and was admitted to the bar, and who died in 1883; Mary, 
wife of Dr. T. B. Stowell, principal of the Potsdam State Normal 
School; Helen, wife of Professor Warren Mann, who has filled the chair 
of natural sciences in the Potsdam State Normal School over twenty-five 
years; Clara, wife of Rev. J. W. Miller, pastor of the Potsdam 
Methodist Episcopal Church; Emma, wife of J. L. Kellogg, of Lincoln, 
Neb.
  His pastoral record is as follows:  1841, Vestal; 1842, Brooklyn; 
1843, Wyoming; 1844, Brooklyn; 1845, Vestal; 1846-47, Dundaff; 1848-49, 
Pike; 1850-51, Nichols; 1852-53, Susquehanna and Lanesboro; 1854-55, 
Owego; 1856-57, Newark Valley; 1858, Carbondale; 1859-62, Presiding 
Elder of Wyalusing District; 1863, Providence; 1864, Court Street, 
Binghamton; 1865-66, Susquehanna; 1867-70, sy.; 1871-72, Candor; 1873, 
Newark Valley; 1874-75, Nichols; 1876, until death, sd.