BIO: Robert L. 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 298-299.
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  Clark, Robert Linus, was born on August 9, 1868, in Forestport, N.Y. 
After some time spent in district schools he was for a season in the 
Bainbridge High School. He did not graduate, but instead went to New 
York city to study art, intending to devote his life to it. He was 
converted at Bainbridge, N.Y., during the winter of 1888-89. This 
changed the courts of his life, as he soon realized a call to the 
ministry. He entered Wyoming Seminary and graduated in 1902. After one 
year's work in Syracuse University he entered the School of Theology in 
Boston University, graduating in 1896. During the four years he spent 
in Boston he established a mission at Forest Hills, a suburb of Boston, 
which is now known as the Upham Memorial Church. He also worked two 
years as superintendent of the University Settlement at 34 Hull Street.
  He received exhorter's license from Bainbridge Church in 1889, and 
local preacher's license a year later. He received local deacon's 
orders in the spring of 1896. In 1897 he joined Wyoming Conference.
  On July 5, 1893, he married Miss Eloise Newton, of Bainbridge. 
  His pastoral record is as follows: 1897-99, Gilbertsville; 1900-03, 
Forest City.