BIO: Arthur D. David, 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 176.
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  DAVID, ARTHUR DAY, was born on April 3, 1866, at Olyphant, Lackawanna 
County, Pa.  He received his schooling in the village school, one term 
at Keystone Academy, and four at Wyoming Seminary, graduating therefrom 
in 1888.  He learned the trade of painting and paper-hanging, and 
worked at this during his vacations.  From 1888 to 1892 he canvassed a 
large portion of the State of Pennsylvania in the interests of 
prohibition, under the direction of the State committee of the 
Prohibition Party.
  On June 6, 1893, he married Miss Emma I. Sanford, of Springville, 
Pa., who died on June 16, 1897, leaving two daughters with her husband.
  He was converted in Factoryville in 1883.  The Peckville Quarterly 
Conference gave him his local preacher's license.  For some years he 
felt called to the ministry, and, after much struggling against 
convictions, he yielded to the call, and in the spring of 1893 joined 
Wyoming Conference.
  After an illness of a few months from a complication of diseases, 
pneumonia set in and resulted in his death on March 1, 1903.  He was 
buried in the Peckville Cemetery, beside his wife.
  His pastoral record is as follows:  1893-94, West Nanticoke; 1895-96, 
Moscow; 1897-1901, Thompson; 1902, Lehman.