BIO: James H. Cargill, 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 167.
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  CARGILL, JAMES HARVEY, was born in Jackson, Susquehanna County, Pa., 
in April, 1829.  He was converted at the age of eleven, and led such a 
life as was most attractive during his youth and young manhood.  At 
about nineteen years of age he began to evince gifts which unmistakably 
pointed to his lifework.  After graduating from Wyoming Seminary he 
offered himself and was received on trial in our Conference in 1852, 
receiving deacon's orders in 1854.
  His fields of labor were as follows, being junior preacher on each 
charge:  1852, Providence; 1853, Susquehanna and Lanesboro; 1854, 
Montrose.  "Invited to pass the 4th of July with his friends at 
Susquehanna, and to take part in a Sabbath school celebration there, he 
was hastening through the principal street of the village, wholly 
unconscious of danger, when he fell a victim to the reckless discharge 
of a cannon," dying about two hours afterward, shouting, "Glory to the 
Lamb!"  He was buried in the town of his birth.