BIO: Webster M. Bouton, Wyoming Conference, Methodist Episcopal Church, PA & NY Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by JRB & JO Copyright 2008. 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, page 287. ________________________________________________ Bouton, Webster M., was born on June 23, 1872, in Stamford, Delaware County, N.Y. He received an academic education and taught school eleven years. He was converted when the work of the ministry in 1897. he received exhorter's license April 5, 1899, and local preacher's license on September 26 of the same year. He supplied Rockdale charge from July, 1899, to the end of the Conference year, when he was sent as supply to Oakland. He joined the Conference in 1901, and is still serving Oakland charge. His grandfather was a local preacher. On August 21, 1902, he married Miss Bernice R. Carrier, of Oakland, Pa.