BIO: Moses Godshall, 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, pages 328-329.
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  Godshall, Moses, S., Ph.D., was born on November 27, 1862, near 
Souderton, in Franconia township, Montgomery County, Pa. His father 
died when he was but seven years old. His mother being left in 
straitened circumstances, he was compelled to leave home. He found work 
on a farm, attending school but three months in the year. At seventeen 
years of age he attended the Sellersville High School one term, and 
then taught common school. He again entered the Sellersville school and 
graduated from it. He taught school, after leaving the Sellersville 
school, about eight years, during four of which he held a "professional 
certificate," granted by the State Board of Examiners. During the last 
two years of his work as teacher, from 1886 to 1888, he studied 
theology under the tutorship of Rev. L. C. Sheip, A.M., pastor of the 
German Reformed Church at Doylestown, Pa. Since entering the ministry 
he has studied with Illinois Wesleyan University, receiving the degree 
of Ph.B. from it in 1896. From Taylor University he received the degree 
of A.M. in 1900, and that of Ph.D. in 1901.
  He united with the German Reformed Church in 1883, without 
experiencing a change of heart. This came to him in the winter of 1886, 
at Lahaska, Pa., on the Lahaska and Lumberville charge. Shortly after 
this he joined the Lahaska Methodist Episcopal Church by letter from 
the German Reformed Church. When but a child he felt a call to the 
ministry, and his conversion made it clear and decided. In March, 1886, 
he received exhorter's license from Lahaska church, and in May of the 
same year local preacher's license. After serving one year as supply in 
the Philadelphia Conference and one year in the Wyoming he joined us in 
the spring of 1890, receiving deacon's orders at the same session of 
Conference.
  On December 31, 1882, he married Miss Amanda Shelly, of Sellersville, 
Pa.
  His pastoral record is as follows:  1890, New Berlin; 1891-92, Lisle; 
1893-96, Guilford; 1897-98, Windsor; 1899-1903, Waverly, Pa.