BIO: Joseph M. Coleman, 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 302.
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  Coleman, Joseph M., was born on May 3, 1870, at South Sterling, Wayne 
County, Pa. He has attended the common schools, and is a graduate of 
Wood's Business College. He was converted at seventeen under the 
preaching of Jonathan Weston. Before becoming of age he acquired some 
knowledge of stone-masonry and carpentering. Since arriving at his 
majority he has clerked, traveled as salesman, and done office work. 
The call to the ministry came to him in such a way as to seem 
unequivocal.
  On February 21, 1894, he married Miss Minnie Williams, of 
Springville, Susquehanna County, Pa.
  After supplying Throop two years he joined the Conference in 1902, 
and was sent to Throop for the third year. About the middle of 1903 he 
was sent by the presiding elder to Beach Lake, taking the place of L. 
D. Tyler, whose failing health compelled him to relinquish his work.