BIO: Enoch P. Eldridge, 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 181-182.
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  ELDRIDGE, ENOCH P., was born in North Pitcher, Chenango County, N.Y., 
on May 27, 1831, and died in Choconut Center, N.Y., on March 31, 1900.  
He was taken away by paralysis, and was sick but two days.  He was 
buried at Pitcher.
  His conversion occurred early in life.  Believing himself called to 
the work of the ministry, he prepared for it by spending some time in 
study at each of the following schools:  Academy at Manlius, Cazenovia 
Seminary, and Genesee College.
  In 1854 he joined Oneida Conference, and became a member of Wyoming 
Conference with the accession of Oneida territory in 1869.
  In 1855 he married Miss Sarah Hutchings, who died in Honesdale in 
1878.  Seven children were born to them, three of whom, Alta May, Iva 
Belle, and Lulu, are living now.
  In January, 1881, he married Miss Lucy Chaplin, of Peckville, Pa., 
who died in August of the same year.
  On February 19, 1884, he married Miss Anna E. Kirkendall, of Danby, 
N.Y., who survives him.
  His ministry was a soul-winning one.  Revivals were the rule with 
him, and often very large ones.  In personal work he was a skilled 
workman.
  His appointments were as follows:  1854, Harford; 1855, New Hope; 
1856, East Homer; 1857, Amber; 1858-59, Summer Hill; 1860-61, Freetown; 
1862-63, Eldridge; 1864-65, Cayuga; 1866-68, Slaterville; 1869-71, 
Nichols; 1872-74, Great Bend; 1875-76, Mount Upton; 1877, Greene; 1878-
79, Agent of Honesdale Church; 1880, Dunmore; 1881, Peckville; 1882-83, 
Danby; 1884-85, Speedville; 1886-88, Rome; 1889-91, Fairdale; 1892-96, 
Maine; 1897-99, Choconut Center.