BIO: Benjamin R. Hanton, 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 333-334.
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  Hanton, Benjamin R., was born on April 6, 1866, at Reedham, Norfolk 
County, England. He was educated in the public schools and Wyoming 
Seminary, where he studied the English branches and took part of the 
Literary-Scientific Course. 
  He was converted on January 11, 1882, in the chapel of the Primitive 
Methodist Church in Reedham, and joined the Church at once. Three 
months after conversion the church licensed him as exhorter, and six 
months later gave him local preacher's license. While in England he was 
a groom and gardener. In March, 1889, he came to America, and, settling 
in Scranton, joined the Hampton Street Methodist Episcopal Church. On 
May 15, 1889, this church gave him a local preacher's license. He 
supplied Glen Lyon in 1895-96 and in 1897 was ordained deacon and sent 
as supply to Lackawaxen. He joined Conference in 1898.
  On July 8, 1897, he married Miss Anna Bella Jurisch, of Susquehanna, 
Pa.
  His pastoral record is as follows: 1898, Lackawaxen; 1899-1903, 
Wallsville.