BIO: Henry H. Dresser, 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 314.
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  Dresser, H. H., was born on January 1, 1838, in Fort Lee, N.J. From 
the time he was of sufficient age to attend school until his sixteenth 
year he was kept at school in his native town. After his sixteenth year 
he attended school in the winter season only, until he entered Wyoming 
Seminary, from which place he was called in the spring of 1865 to serve 
the Narrowsburg charge as supply.
  He was converted in 1861, and in February, 1862, he received 
exhorter's license. In September of the same year he received local 
preacher's license from the Quarterly Conference of McClure Settlement. 
The civil war furnished him employment which proved remunerative, and 
furnished him with means so that he could prolong his studies 
preparatory to his lifework.
  He was received in the Wyoming Conference in April, 1866, at its 
session held in Owego, N.Y., and on September 25 of the same year he 
married Miss Sophronia Gay.
  His pastoral record is as follows: 1866, Lackawaxen; 1867-69, 
Tallmansville (Lake Como); 1870-71, Clifford; 1872, Bethany; 1873, 
Salem; 1874-75, Edmeston and Exeter; 1876-78, Plains; 1879-81, 
Montrose; 1882-84, Pittston; 1885, Green Ridge, Scranton (now Asbury); 
1886-87, Athens; fall of 1887, transferred to Dakota Conference and 
stationed at Huron, S. Dak., where he labored three years; 1890-94, 
Presiding Elder of Watertown District; transferred to Minnesota 
Conference, and 1895-96 served Grace Church, Duluth; 1897, 
Superintendent City Missions in Duluth; transferred to Wyoming 
Conference, 1898-99, High Street, Binghamton; 1900, Ashley; 1901-03, 
Presiding Elder of Owego District.

1880 Montrose, Susquehanna County census -
Henry H. Dresser, 41, M. E. Clergyman
Sophronia Dresser, 39