BIO: John D. Bloodgood, 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 282-283.
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  Bloodgood, John D., was born in Litchfield, Pa., February 3, 1843, 
and was the sixth son and seventh child of Rev. Cyrus and Catharine 
Bloodgood, early settlers of that region. He attended the common 
schools until sixteen years of age, when he attended select schools, 
until August 12, 1862, when he enlisted as private in Company I, 141st 
Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and was discharged as 
sergeant June 28, 1865, when he immediately resumed his studies, 
entering the Waverly, N.Y., Institute, where he pursued his studies for 
some two years, after which he began teaching, which profession he 
followed up to the time he entered the ministry in April, 1868.
  In 1878 he matriculated at Illinois Wesleyan University, and in 1881 
graduated with the degree of Ph.B.
  In September, 1866, while attending a camp meeting at Spencer, N.Y., 
he was convicted of sin and converted. The call to the ministry soon 
followed, and was as clear and definite as the call to repentance. His 
first license was as a local preacher, and was granted by the Quarterly 
Conference of Van Ettenville, N.Y., and dated in January, 1868. In 
April, 1868, he was employed by Dr. Clarke as supply on the Tioga 
charge, Owego District, and in April, 1869, was admitted into the 
Wyoming Conference. He was ordained deacon in 1871 by Bishop Janes and 
admitted into full membership, and in 1873 was ordained elder by Bishop 
Ames.
  November 17, 1867, he was united in marriage with Miss Belle Rogers, 
of Waverly, N.Y., the fruit of this union being two daughters - Lyllian 
M., born May 15, 1873, and Ethelyn M., born May 22, 1880. After 
suffering a number of years from consumption she fell asleep in Jesus 
on February 26, 1899.
  In 1892 he published a volume entitled Personal Reminiscences of the 
War, which has had an extensive circulation.
  In 1894, after twenty-five years of active service and feeling 
increasingly the burden of disabilities contracted while in the army, 
he took a supernumerary relation and accepted a position in the Pension 
Bureau at Washington, D.C., which he now (1903) holds.
  His pastoral record is as follows: 1869, Tioga; 1870-71, South Danby; 
1872, Vestal; 1873, sy.; 1874-76, Sanford; 1877-78, Lisle; 1879-81, 
Gilbertsville; 1882-83, Wyalusing; 1884-85, sy.; 1886-88, Gibson; 1889-
91, Lockwood; 1892-92, Tioga; 1894-98, sy.; 1899-1903, sd.