BIO: John Bradshaw, 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 287-288.
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  Bradshaw, John, Ph.D., was born in the north of Ireland about 1850. 
He came from Belfast to New York city when just entering manhood.
  On July 16, 1873, he married Miss Isabella Morrison, of New York 
city.
  He was converted in the Eleventh Street Methodist Episcopal Church in 
the winter of 1873. He was called to the ministry while occupying a 
lucrative position in New York. He went as a missionary to the poor 
white people of the South in 1875, and in 1876 joined the Blue Ridge 
Conference. He remained in that work until 1880, when he entered Drew 
Theological Seminary. While in the South his highest salary was $150 
per year, and that was paid by the Missionary Society. After joining 
Wyoming Conference in 1883, he being admitted on certificate of 
location from Blue Ridge Conference, he pursued a course of study in, 
and graduated from, Hamilton College, Clinton, N.Y. He has since 
pursued a course of study leading to the degree of Ph.D., and received 
the degree.
  His pastorates have been as follows:  1883-85, Mount Upton; 1886-88, 
Ashley; 1889-93, High Street, Binghamton; 1894-95, Norwich; 1896-98, 
Pittston; 1899-1901, Nanticoke; 1902-03, Plymouth, Pa.