BIO: Hiram A. Greene, 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 330-331.
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  Greene, Hiram Ashley, was born in the town of Greenfield, Saratoga 
County, N.Y., on April 29, 1861.  His early education was received in 
the common schools of Saratoga Springs. One winter he went to 
Washington County, where he worked for his board and went to school. 
After his conversion and just before entering the Young Men's Christian 
Association work he spent two years at Mount Hermon School, near 
Northfield, Mass. He paid his way here by picking stone about the 
buildings, cutting cord wood, and doing any other work he could get to 
do. In 1886 he became secretary of the newly organized Young Men's 
Christian Association at Norwich, N.Y., where he labored two years, 
when he became secretary of the railroad Young Men's Christian 
Association in Binghamton, N.Y. Here he stayed two years and entered 
Conference in 1890.
  When about twenty-one years old, and while living in Saratoga, after 
the loss of a brother and sister, and while in bed with the same 
disease which had carried them away, diphtheria, he was converted, 
"learned to look up."  Shortly after recovery he availed himself of the 
first opportunity, which was in the Congregational Church, to publicly 
confess Christ. He was boarding with a Baptist family at the time, 
which, together with the fact that his associates were largely in the 
Baptist Church, led him to join the Baptist Church. The call to the 
ministry came to him while in Binghamton. Circumstances made it 
desirable for him to join the Methodist Church, of which his wife had 
been a member a long time. Accordingly, they both joined the Chenango 
Street Methodist Episcopal Church by letter. Here he received 
exhorter's license and later local preacher's license.
  On December 27, 1886, he married Miss Mattie O. Phillips, of 
Saratoga, N.Y., who died on September 27, 1891, at Osborne Hollow, N.Y. 
In November, 1892, he married Miss Ella S. Fohnsbee, of Troy, N.Y.
  He has published several Harvest Home programs, which have been 
successfully used by a number of our preachers. 
  His pastoral record is as follows: 1890, Harford; 1891-92, Osborne 
Hollow and Port Cane; 1893, Sanitaria Springs; 1894-97, Hartwick and 
Mount Vision; 1898-99, Worcester; 1900, Conference Evangelist; 1901, 
Lackawanna; 1902-03, Courtdale and Larksville.