BIO: Frank F. Gibbs, 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 326. ________________________________________________ Gibbs, Frank F., was born on July 5, 1870, at Maplewood, Wayne County, Pa. His conversion occurred at Salem Camp Ground in August, 1883. In the following September he joined the Methodist Protestant Church in Hollisterville, Pa. In 1886 he united with the Methodist Episcopal Church at Maplewood by letter. He moved to Scranton in 1887, where he attended the High School two years, and subsequently graduated from the Scranton Business College. On May 27, 1895, he was admitted to the bar of Lackawanna County, and in January, 1898, to the Superior Court of Pennsylvania. On September 16, 1897, he married Miss Clara L. Conrad, of Scranton, Pa. Elm Park Church, of Scranton, gave him local preacher's license on January 28, 1902, and in April following he was sent as supply to the Gouldsboro charge. In 1903 he united with the Conference, and was stationed at Bethany.