BIO: Jasper W. Hewitt, 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, page 195.
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  HEWITT, JASPER W., was born in the town of Bethlehem, Albany County, 
N.Y., on May 20, 1816, and died in his home in Candor, N.Y., on 
November 19, 1899.
  When about fifteen years of age he was converted at a camp meeting 
held near Apalachin, N.Y.  Shortly after this he went into western New 
York to attend school, living with an aunt who gave him the best of 
religious instruction.
  In 1842 he was given an exhorter's license, and in 1844 a local 
preacher's license.  After serving as supply three years under the 
presiding elder, he joined the Oneida Conference in 1848, and became a 
member of Wyoming Conference at its organization.  After superannuation 
he settled in Candor, where he lived until death.  He was buried in the 
Maple Grove Cemetery, in Candor.
  On September 2, 1838, he married Miss Clarissa J. Wright, of South 
Danby, who with one son and three daughters survived him.
  His appointments were as follows:  1848-49, Virgil; 1850-51, 
Flemingville; 1852-53, Barton; 1854-55, Tioga; 1856-57, Flemingville; 
1858, located; 1859-60, Litchfield; 1861-62, Mehoopany; 1863-64, 
Sanford; 1865-67, Lanesboro; 1868-70, Bethany; 1871, Slaterville; 1872-
74, Whitney's Point and Triangle; 1875, New Milford; 1876-77, Kirkwood; 
1878-79, Lanesboro; 1880-82, Union Center; 1883-85, Franklin Forks; 
1886-99, sd.