BIO: Charles A. Frear, 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 323.
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  Frear, Charles A., was born on January 23, 1876, in Unadilla, N.Y., 
where his parents have lived a number of years. The family has been 
actively identified with Methodism for some time. After leaving the 
district school near the homestead, he entered the Unadilla Academy in 
1890 and graduated in 1894. from this time he taught school until 1898, 
when he entered Hamilton College, at Clinton, N.Y., from which he 
graduated in 1902. A few weeks before graduation he was taken ill and 
was unable to be present at graduation. Early in July he engaged as 
vice principal of the Greenwich (Conn.) High School. At the end of 
August he had not sufficiently recovered to permit him to take the 
work. He therefore resigned.
  He was converted at seventeen, and a year later united with the 
Methodist Episcopal Church at Sidney, N.Y. He early felt called to 
preach, but did not yield for some time, the profession of law having 
attractions for him. After a long struggle he yielded. After about six 
months' work as supply he was admitted to this Conference in 1903, and 
appointed to Cooperstown Junction.
  On November 25, 1903, he married Miss J. Blanche Every, of 
Cooperstown Junction, N.Y.