BIO: Simon H. Flory, 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, page 319. ________________________________________________ Flory, Simon H., was born on April 29, 1866, at Stroudsburg, Pa. His father, Captain W. A. Flory, was a local preacher for thirty years. He was converted at a Methodist altar on December 23, 1878, and joined the Church in 1880. He attended the public schools until fifteen years of age, when he entered his father's shop to learn the tinsmith trade. In the winter of 1887 he ended a battle with convictions which had lasted seven years, and decided to enter the ministry. Preparatory to that work he entered the Centenary Collegiate Institute in the fall of 1888, and graduated from this school in 1891. In 1891 he was sent as supply to Richboro and Penn's Park charge in the Philadelphia Conference. He received deacon's orders from the Philadelphia Conference in 1893, and the same spring joined the Wyoming Conference and was appointed to Flemingville, N.Y. On June 7, 1893, he married Miss Jessica Crowley, of Brooklyn, N.Y. His pastorates have been as follows: 1893, Flemingville; 1894-95, Rome; 1896-97, Apalachin; 1898-99, Harford, N.Y.; 1900-01, Choconut Center; 1902-03, Plymouth.