BIO: Albert Clark, 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 399-301.
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  Clarke, Albert, was born on March 10, 1867, at Wooton, 
Northamptonshire, England. Three years later his parents moved to 
Northampton, in the same county, where he afterward attended the St. 
Edmund's Schools and the Northampton Science and Art School. He was 
raised in a religious home, and was converted in the quiet of the home 
at fifteen years of age, and at once joined the Wesleyan Methodist 
Church. At sixteen he was a teacher in the Sunday school, and shortly 
after this became a local preacher. For eight years he was a local 
preacher, exercising his gifts on Sunday and working week days on the 
Northampton Mercury and Northampton Daily Reporter. In 1891-94 he 
edited the Northampton Methodist Monthly.
  On July 21, 1892, he married Miss Mary Elizabeth Denton. 
  The latter part of 1894 he felt called to give himself wholly to the 
work of the ministry. He could not do this in the Wesleyan Church 
because of their rule requiring candidates to be unmarried. He 
therefore came to America, with the purpose of entering the ministry of 
the Methodist Episcopal Church, in 1895. He took work as supply at 
Preston, N.Y., and the following year (1896) joined the Wyoming 
Conference, receiving his first appointment to the charge he was 
supplying.
  His pastorates have been as follows: 1896-97, Preston; 1898-1901, 
Plymouth, N.Y.; 1902-03, Westford.