BIO: William Frisby, 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 324.
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  Frisby, William, was born on September 29, 1852, at Cottesmore, 
Ruthlandshire, England. He attended the following schools: Whitewell 
House, Huntingdon, Preparatory;  Stamford Academy; and Belper 
Collegiate School. He also took a two-years' course in civil 
engineering at Evesham, under Frederick Pace, C.E.
  He was converted in New York city on June 28, 1881. he received local 
preacher's license from the Quarterly Conference of Hedding Methodist 
Episcopal Church, New York, March 7, 1884, and joined Wyoming 
Conference the following spring.
  On May 4, 1882, he married Miss Jennie L. Norris, of New York city. 
  His pastoral record is as follows: 1885-86, Stoddartsville; 1887-88, 
New Berlin and Columbus; 1889-92, Guilford; 1893, Whitney's Point; 
1894-96, Oxford; 1897-98, Taylor; 1899-1902, Sidney; 1903, Clinton 
Street, Binghamton.