BIO: Ernest Colwell, 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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  Colwell, Ernest, was born in 1872 in Manchester, England. His father 
and grandfather were Methodist preachers. He was educated at the 
Liverpool College, England. He was converted at the age of sixteen, and 
at once joined the Church, in which he became an active worker, being 
Sunday school teacher, class leader, and local preacher before he 
became of age.
  He came to the United States in 1894, and soon after joined the 
Methodist Episcopal Church. After supplying work in the New York and 
other Conferences he came to Wyoming Conference in 1897. After 
supplying East Bridgewater (Alford) one year he joined the Conference 
in 1898. 
  In 1896 he married Miss Anna C. Lantz, of Mifflin County, Pa.
  His pastoral record is as follows: 1898, Alford; 1899, Franklin 
Forks; 1900-1901, Hallstead; 1902-03, Mount Vision.