BIO: Ferris D. Cornell, 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 305.
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  Cornell, Ferris D., was born on July 17, 1868, in Rush, Susquehanna 
County, Pa. His early education was in the district schools, and at 
seventeen years of age he attended the Graded School at Springville, 
Susquehanna County, Pa., for seven months, and the year following two 
months. In 1888 he attended the Mansfield State Normal School for one 
term, making the junior course in the spring term. He taught and worked 
until the fall of 1890, when he returned to Mansfield and graduated 
with the class of 1891, with the degree of Bachelor of Elements. He 
taught school in the fall and winter of 1891, and entered Wyoming 
Seminary in 1892, taking special work in Latin, Greek, and German. In 
the spring of 1893 he was sent as supply to Eatonville, Pa., and joined 
the Conference in the spring following. Since joining the Conference he 
has taken a course in ancient history, manners, customs, geography, 
biography, and exegesis, with the Christian University, Missouri, 
receiving the degree of Master of Ancient Literature in 1901.
  He was converted at eleven years of age at East Rush, Susquehanna 
County, Pa. From early childhood he had impressions concerning his 
lifework. At the age of twenty-one these impressions took positive 
form, and he decided to enter the ministry, receiving exhorter's and 
local preacher's licenses soon after.
  He has published a pamphlet on Present Social Dangers.
  On January 24, 1894, he married Miss Luna Evelyn James, a teacher in 
the city of Wilkes-Barre, Pa. Two children, a boy and a girl, have been 
born to them.
  His pastoral record is as follows: 1894-97, Maple Grove; 1898-1903, 
Wanamie.