BIO: Gilbert M. Chamberlain, 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 300.
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  Chamberlain, Gilbert M., was born on September 14, 1830, in 
Wyalusing, Pa. He attended Wyoming Seminary one year, when about twenty 
years of age. Thirteen years later he again entered the seminary and 
studied two and a half years.
  He was converted in 1852 at Lime Hill, Pa., and joined the Church at 
once. In 1854 he received local preacher's license. He joined Wyoming 
Conference in 1866, receiving deacon's orders at the same Conference.
  On September 29, 1853, he married Miss Amanda M. Bunnell, of 
Tunkhannock, Pa. 
  Since retiring from active work he has lived at Tunkhannock. 
  His pastoral record is as follows: 1866-68, Moscow; 1869-70, 
Peckville; 1871-72, Wyalusing; 1873, Salem; 1874-75, Parsons; 1876-77, 
Tioga; 1878-79, Athens; 1880-82, Meshoppen; 1883-85, Skinner's Eddy; 
1886-87, sy.; 1888, Falls; 1889-91, sy.; 1892-93, West Nicholson; 1894, 
Glen Lyon; 1895, sy.; 1896-1903, sd.