BIO: Franklin P. Doty, Wyoming Conference, Methodist Episcopal Church, PA & NY Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by JRB & JO Copyright 2008. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/pafiles.htm ________________________________________________ Chaffee, Amasa Franklin. History of the Wyoming Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. New York: Eaton & Mains, 1904, pages 313-314. ________________________________________________ Doty, Franklin P., was born in 1853, in Wantage, Sussex County, N.J. At an early age, with his parents, he moved to Barton, N.Y., and later to Towanda, Pa. He was educated in the Waverly High School, and in the Susquehanna Collegiate Institute, at Towanda, Pa. He was converted in his seventeenth year and united with the Presbyterian Church, becoming a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1873 by letter. He followed the vocation of school-teaching three years. He early felt called to the ministry, but resisted the call for years. In 1877 he received exhorter's license, and in 1878 local preacher's license. This year he was sent as supply to the Halsey Valley charge, which comprised Halsey Valley, Beaver Meadow, Hamilton's and Moffit Hill. He joined the Conference in 1879. In 1879 he married Miss Amelia Harding, of Barton, Tioga County, N.Y. Two children, a daughter and a son, have been born to them. His pastorates have been as follows: 1870, Hale's Eddy; 1880-81, Oregon; 1882-83, Harpursville; 1884-86, North Abington; 1887, Thompson; 1888-92, Avoca; 1893-94, Peckville; 1895-97, Hampton Street, Scranton; 1898-1903, St. Paul's, Scranton.