BIO: Bishop B. Carruth, 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 294-295.
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  Carruth, Bishop B., was born on April 30, 1827, at Lorraine, 
Jefferson County, N.Y. He was educated in the common schools, and 
attended the Norwich Academy three years. In his younger days he taught 
school fourteen terms. 
  He was converted in a meeting held in a Baptist church in his native 
town when twelve years of age, and wanted to unite with the Church, but 
his father and his pastor thought he ought to wait a while, considering 
him too young to enter the Church. As he waited he wandered until he 
became an infidel. In the winter of 1849-50, while teaching school in 
Guilford, N.Y., in a revival meeting which was held in the Methodist 
Episcopal church, he renewed his covenant with God. Shortly after this 
he became convinced that it was his duty to preach the Gospel. While 
teaching school in Sherbourne, N.Y., in 1851, he received exhorter's 
license, and the following year local preacher's license.
  In July, 1852, he united with the Oneida Conference, and became a 
member of Wyoming Conference by the accession of Oneida territory.
  On June 7, 1853, he married Miss H. Elizabeth Leonard, of Smithville 
Flats. Mrs. Carruth was raised in Guilford and spent her early life 
there, except the two years she lived at Smithville Flats.
  His pastoral record is as follows:  1852, Bainbridge; 1853, Triangle; 
1854, Edmeston; 1861-62, Starkville; 1863-64, Exeter; 1865-66, Laurens; 
1867-68, Frey's Bush; 1869, Mount Upton; 1870-72, Afton; 1873-74, 
Willet; 1875-76, North Norwich; 1877-78, Gilbertsville; 1879, South New 
Berlin; 1880-81, Osborne Hollow; 1882, Broome; 1883, Choconut Center; 
1884, Lackawaxen; 1885, Bethany; 1886, Sanford; 1887, Portlandville; 
1888-89, West Danby; 1890, South Danby; 1891, North Tioga; 1892, 
Litchfield; 1893-1903, sd.