BIO: George Forsyth, 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 322.
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  Forsyth, George, A.M., was born in Gateshead, England, and came to 
America in boyhood. He prepared for college at Amenia Seminary, and 
graduated from Wesleyan University in 1864, receiving the bachelor's 
degree at the time, and the degree of A.M. in 1867.
  He was converted in 1860, received local preacher's license in 1862, 
and was admitted into Wyoming Conference in 1867.
   His pastoral record is as follows:  1867-70, Professor in Wyoming 
Seminary; 1871-72, Gibson and Jackson; 1873-81, Principal of East Maine 
Conference Seminary; 1881-83, Susquehanna; 1884-86, Owego; 1887-89, 
Providence, Scranton; 1890-94, Nanticoke; 1895-1900, Presiding Elder of 
Owego District; 1901-02, Chenango Street, Binghamton; 1903, sy.