BIO: William Edgar, 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, pages 180-181.
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  EDGAR, WILLIAM, was born on February 24, 1855, in New York city.  
Here he passed through the grammar and high schools.  At fifteen years 
of age he went to Columbus, O., where he became a clerk in an uncle's 
store.  During his first winter in that city he passed through a 
revival, conducted by Rev. D. H. Moore, now bishop, and in it gave his 
heart to God, and subsequently united with the Church.  He at once 
became an active worker and taught nearly every Sunday in the Ohio 
Penitentiary for nearly two years.
  After two years' work in the store he returned to New York, and 
during the next three years he found work in the old Franklin Street 
Mission and Jerry McAuley's Water Street Mission.  About this time he 
entered Dr. Talmage's Lay College, in Brooklyn, where he studied two 
years, after which he entered Wyoming Seminary and remained two years.  
In 1877 he was appointed as supply to Mountain Top, and in the 
following spring united with the Conference.  In December, 1875, he 
received exhorter's license, and a month later local preacher's 
license.
  On April 29, 1879, he married Miss Mary E. Rogers, of New York city, 
who died on January 11, 1901.  He survived her a little over a year.  
He had suffered with appendicitis about two years.  When he was finally 
operated upon it was found that the operation had been deferred too 
long.  He could not rally from it, and on March 6, 1902, he passed 
away.  He and his wife are buried in the cemetery at Dunmore.  Three 
children were born to them - William, now in the Third National Bank of 
Scranton; Arthur, now in college; and Emily, who is living with her 
brother in Scranton.
  His pastoral record is as follows:  1878, Decatur; 1879-80, Morris; 
1881, North Abington; 1882-83, Bethany; 1884-86, Worcester; 1887-90, 
Dunmore; 1891-94, Carbondale; 1895-99, Providence, Scranton; 1900-01, 
Owego.