BIO: Albert J. Chapman, 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 295-296.
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  Chapman, Albert J., was born on April 30, 1878, in Avoca, Pa. In 1886 
his family moved to Nanticoke, Pa., where he was converted in 1888, and 
received into the Church. In 1891 he moved to Winton, Pa., where he 
worked in and around the mines. The year 1892 found him living in 
Peckville, Pa. Here he received a license as local preacher in 1894 
from the Peckville Quarterly Conference. He entered Wyoming Seminary in 
1896, graduating in 1901. During 1900 he supplied the Douglass 
Presbyterian Mission, in Wilkes-Barre, Pa. In 1901 he entered Syracuse 
University, where he studied two years. From April, 1902, to April, 
1903, he supplied West Monroe Methodist Episcopal Church, in the 
Northern New York Conference. In 1903 he entered this Conference, and 
was appointed to West Exeter.
  On August 4, 1903, he married Miss Maude A. Trevorton, of Peckville, 
Pa.