BIO: David R. Carrier, Wyoming Conference, Methodist Episcopal Church, PA & NY Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Judy Banja & Denise Phillips Copyright 2007. 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 167. ________________________________________________ CARRIER, DAVID R., was born in Columbus, Chenango County, N.Y., on November 28, 1823, and died from cerebral hemorrhage in Binghamton, N.Y., on August 29, 1895. His body was laid to rest in Mount Hope Cemetery, in Norwich, N.Y. At eighteen years of age he graduated from Cazenovia Seminary, and two years later from Union College. He spent some time teaching in Wisconsin, where he had charge of the first high school in that Territory. He was professor of languages in Wyoming Seminary for several years, and subsequently acted as agent for Troy University. During the years in which he was engaged in school work he was a regularly licensed preacher. He entered the Oneida Conference in 1857, and became a member of this Conference by the accession of territory. In 1854 he married Miss Catharine McChesney, of Troy, N.Y., who survives him, as do the three children which were born to them, J. Wilbur, Florence and Russell. His pastoral record is as follows: 1857, Camillus; 1858-59, Newfield; 1860, Fleming; 1861-62, Aurora; 1863, Ludlowville and North Lansing; 1864-65, Port Byron; 1866-67, Homer; 1868, Middlefield; 1869- 70, sy.; 1871-72, South New Berlin; 1873, Guilford; 1874-95, sd.