BIO: Jacob H. Boyce, 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 286. ________________________________________________ Boyce, Jacob H., was born on December 28, 1845, in the town of Apalachin, N.Y. He was reared on a farm, and attended the district school of his neighborhood. He attended the Owego Academy in the winter and spring of 1865-66, and taught school in the winter of 1866-67. he alternated attending Wyoming Seminary and teaching in Kingston and Forty Fort from 1867 to 1872. Since entering the ministry he has taken the Chautauqua Literary and Scientific course of reading, and has the Chautauqua diploma. He was converted in the district schoolhouse when about ten years old, and soon afterward felt called to the ministry. He was licensed to exhort in 1866, and received local preacher's license in 1868 by the Kingston Quarterly Conference. He served as supply at Athens from October, 1872, to the Conference in 1873, when he joined the Conference. He served in the civil war as private, first in the 109th Regiment of New York Volunteers, second in the 51st Regiment of New York Veteran Infantry, from January 1, 1864, to August, 1865. On September 30, 1874, he married Miss Christine E. Stevens, of Elkdale, Pa. They have seven children. The oldest, Robert, has graduated from Syracuse University, and is a member of Central New York Conference. His pastoral record is as follows: 1873, West Danby; 1874, Flemingville; 1875-76, Middlefield; 1877-78, South New Berlin; 1879-81, Edmeston; 1882, Triangle; 1883-84, Willet; 1885-86, Lisle; 1887-89, Clifford; 1890-93, Canaan; 1894-97, Sterling; 1897-1901, Pleasant Mount; 1902-03, Damascus.