BIO: Hiram A. Blanchard, Wyoming Conference, Methodist Episcopal Church, PA & NY Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Judy Banja & Denise Phillips Copyright 2007. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/pafiles.htm ________________________________________________ Chaffee, Amasa Franklin. History of the Wyoming Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. New York: Eaton & Mains, 1904, pages 159-160. ________________________________________________ BLANCHARD, HIRAM A., was born in Sodus, Wayne County, N.Y., on May 1, 1824, and died in Portlandville, N.Y., on May 4, 1898. His educational advantages were such as the common district school could give him. The time of his conversion is not known. However, he was licensed to preach before he was twenty-one years of age. In 1849 he joined the Genesee Conference of the Methodist Protestant Church, and gave seventeen years of service to that denomination. While with this body he served East Schuyler, Paine's Hollow, South Valley, Conquest, Boyleston, and Rome, N.Y. His brethren honored him by electing him president of this Conference three successive years. Preferring the polity of the Methodist Episcopal Church, he joined Wyoming Conference in 1867. After superannuation he lived in the village of Portlandville until death. On December 25, 1844, he married Miss Hannah Hunt Richardson, of Huron, N.Y. Three sons and one daughter were born to them, of whom two are still living - Mrs. F. M. Loomis, of Paine's Hollow, and H. Delos, M.D., of Portlandville. She passed to her reward on July 19, 1894. Husband and wife are buried in the cemetery in Westville, Otsego County, N.Y. His pastoral record is as follows: 1849-66, Methodist Protestant Church; 1867, Schuyler's Lake; 1868-69, Westville; 1870, Decatur; 1871- 72, Sidney; 1873-74, Fly Creek; 1875, Little Meadows; 1876-77, Garrattsville; 1878, Westford; 1879-81, Laurens; 1882-83, Sanford; 1884, sy.; 1885, Sidney Center; 1886, Clifford; 1887-88, Beach Pond; 1889-90, sd.; 1891-92, Wells Bridge; 1893-98, sd.