BIO: John E. Bone, 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 287.
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  Bone, John E., was born in Quethiock, Cornwall, England, on June 25, 
1856. At eleven years of age he was apprenticed to a shoemaker, and 
served seven years in learning his trade. At about eighteen years of 
age he came to this country. For a while he worked on a farm in Wayne 
County, and later at his trade in Peckville, Pa.
  In 1875 he was converted at Mount Pleasant, Pa. He graduated from 
Wyoming Seminary in 1883, and from Drew Theological Seminary in 1886. 
In the same year he joined Wyoming Conference.
  He married Miss Ella Thomas, of Peckville, Pa. 
  His pastoral record is as follows: 1886-87, Yatesville; 1888-90, 
Assistant First Church, Wilkes-Barre; 1891-92, Derr Memorial Church, 
Wilkes-Barre; 1893-97, Oneonta; 1898, Honesdale; 1899-1900, Union; 
1901-02, sy.; 1903, Glen Lyon.