BIO: Andrew M. Colegrove, 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 170-171.
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  COLEGROVE, ANDREW MATTESON, was born on January 6, 1839, in the town 
of Edmeston, Otsego County, N.Y.  His father was a farmer, who embraced 
religion when young, and early thought he ought to preach the Gospel.  
Shrinking from that duty, he became indifferent.  In the fall of 1852 
the subject of this sketch was converted in a series of meetings held 
in what was then known as the West schoolhouse.  The meetings were 
conducted by Rev. William Burnside.  In the same meeting two of his 
sisters were converted, and the father brought into active religious 
life.  The father, son, two daughters, and the wife, who had been a 
Baptist since thirteen years of age, joined the Methodist Episcopal 
Church, the father becoming a local preacher soon afterward.
  He was educated in the common schools and had a few terms in a select 
school.  About 1854 his pastor, Austin Southworth, gave him an 
exhorter's license, which he threw in the fire, under the temptation 
that he could not meet the expectations of the Church.  This resulted 
in spiritual darkness for a couple of years or more.  In 1860 he 
welcomed an exhorter's license, and about 1863 he received a local 
preacher's license.  He served Morris six months, Preston two years, 
and Sidney one year as supply, and joined Oneida Conference in 1867, 
receiving deacon's orders at the same session as Conference.  He became 
a member of Wyoming with the accession of Oneida territory.
  On January 1, 1862, he married Miss Eveline Boardman, of New Berlin, 
N.Y., who bore him four children.
  Ill health caused him twice to take a supernumerary relation for rest 
and recuperation.
  After superannuation, in 1902, he settled in Sidney, N.Y., in a cozy 
home, looking for several years of retired quiet.
  On May 24, 1902, shortly after moving into the new home, he passed 
away, and was buried in Prospect Hill Cemetery, in Sidney.
  His pastoral record is as follows:  1867, Sidney; 1868-69, Smyrna; 
1870-71, Butternuts; 1872-73, Schenevus; 1874-76, Windsor; 1877-78, 
Guilford; 1879, Chenango; 1880-81, Plymouth, N.Y.; 1882-83, sy.; 1884, 
South New Berlin; 1885-89, sy.; 1890-93, Harpursville; 1894-96, Fly 
Creek; 1897-99, Wells Bridge; 1900-01, McDonough; 1902, sd.