BIO: Albert F. Brown, 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 289-290.
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  Brown, Albert Fargo, was born on July 12, 1837, in the town of Lenox, 
Madison County, N.Y. He attended school at McGrawville, N.Y., and was 
at Cazenovia for a while. He was converted when about fourteen years of 
age, in a meeting conducted by Rev. Abijah Brown in a schoolhouse near 
Catlin Settlement, on the Taylor charge, Oneida Conference, and soon 
after was called into the ministry/ he received exhorter's license in 
1855 and local preacher's license in 1857. in 1858 he was sent as 
supply to East Homer, where he labored nine months, and in 1859 he 
joined the Oneida Conference, and became a member of Wyoming Conference 
in 1869 by the accession of Oneida territory.
  He married Miss Mary Etta Culver, of Cuyler, Cortland County, N.Y., 
on October 17, 1857. They have had three children, one son and two 
daughters, the daughters dying in infancy.
  He has married over two hundred and fifty couples, officiated at 
about four hundred and twenty-five funerals, and preached over six 
thousand times.
  His pastoral record is as follows: 1858, East Homer; 1859, North 
Summer Hill; 1860, Summer Hill; 1861-62, Harford; 1863-65, Virgil; 
1866-67, De Ruyter and Shedd's Corners; 1868-70, Willet; 1871-72, 
Greene; 1873-74, Smyrna; 1875-77, Westford; 1878, Bainbridge; 1879-80, 
Hartwick; 1881-82, Schenevus; 1883-85, Salem; 1886-89, Waymart; 1890-
91, Barton; 1892-94, Speedsville; 1895-96, Lockwood; 1897-98, 
Litchfield; 1899-1900, Danby; 1901-02, Flemingville; 1903, Harford.