BIO: John N. Goodrich, 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 329. ________________________________________________ Goodrich, John N., Ph.D., was born on October 13, 1861, in Orwell, Vt. He was educated at Troy Conference Academy, at Poultney, Vt., and the National University of Illinois, from which institution he received the degrees of Ph.B. and Ph.D. He was converted at the old homestead, a farm in Vermont, when seventeen years of age, and began work as a local preacher the same year. In 1890 he joined the Troy Conference. Some time after receiving elder's orders he united with the Protestant Episcopal Church. In 1903 he united with this Conference, being received on his credentials, and stationed at Endicott. In the spring of 1890 he married Miss Ida Belle Parker, daughter of Rev. N. C. Parker, of the Troy Conference.