BIO: Edgar M. High, 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 196.
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  HIGH, EDGAR M., was born in Greenville, Albany County, N.Y., in 1816.  
At fourteen years of age he was converted and began an active Christian 
life.  He married in his nineteenth year.  Afflictions soon began to 
chasten.  One and a half years after marriage he lost his wife, and 
soon after his only child.  About this time he felt called to the 
ministry.  In 1842 he again married, and began the ministry as junior 
preacher on Livingston charge, Niagara County, N.Y.  The following year 
he felt it to be his duty to go with the Wesleyans in the organization 
of that Church.  This movement took his colleague and nearly the whole 
membership of the circuit.  During sixteen years he labored with this 
people, when failing health prompted him to settle upon a farm near 
Rome, Pa.  Several years of rest so far recuperated him as to cause 
longings for work in his chosen profession.  The war being over, and 
the issue of slavery having been settled, he sought affiliations with 
the mother Church.  In 1868 he was received as an elder by the Wyoming 
Conference.
  In 1842 he married Miss Lucinda McEwin, who died at the home of her 
daughter, Mrs. William P. Rockwell, of Rome, Pa., on October 2, 1901.
  On the 14th and 15th of October, 1873, he attended the meeting of the 
Owego District Ministerial Association at West Danby, before which he 
read an able article upon "Paul Before Agrippa."  On his way home, 
accompanied by Rev. George Comfort, he tarried over night with Mr. 
Reuben Meeker.  During the night he was attacked by disease.  Medical 
skill and the care of kind friends were unavailing.  He died at 4 p. m. 
of October 16.
  His fields of labor in Wyoming Conference were as follows:  1868, 
Skinner's Eddy; 1869-70, Factoryville, Pa.; 1871-72, Windham; 1873, 
Berkshire.