BIO: Samuel Human, 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 344-345.
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  Human, Samuel, was born on September 13, 1832, in Berks County, Pa. 
His parents were from German stock, and he thinks his great-grandfather 
was a Palatine. His grandfather came to the United States from 
Rotterdam.
  In 1854 he was converted in the city of Reading, Pa., and united with 
the Protestant Methodist Church. At this time his parents were 
Lutherans, but they subsequently were converted and became Methodists. 
He was elected steward, superintendent of the Sunday school, trustee, 
and class leader before he had been a member of the Church a full year. 
He was licensed to preach in 1855, and in 1856 joined the Pennsylvania 
Conference of the Methodist Protestant Church, receiving his first 
appointment on August 11. He was ordained deacon May 24, 1857, and the 
interests of the church to which he was appointed in 188 demanded that 
he should be an elder. Accordingly a special examination was given him 
and elder's orders granted in October, 1858. While a member of the 
Pennsylvania Conference he was elected president three times, and to 
the General Conference once. In 1873 he was transferred to the New York 
Conference, where he was three times elected chairman of a district, 
and once to the General Conference. In 1876 he became a member of 
Wyoming Conference.
  In the early part of his ministry he knew what it was to rough it, 
traveling on horseback, carrying books and linen in saddlebags, 
sleeping in uncomfortable beds, and receiving but a pittance for his 
services. He has never taken a vacation, and has never been without an 
appointment, except when in the army for the suppression of the 
rebellion, until his superannuation.
  On October 4, 1860, he married Miss Annie E. Bortree, of Sterling, 
Wayne County, Pa., who died at Hamlinton, Pa., on September 1, 1886. On 
December 10, 1890, he married Mrs. Elizabeth Holden, of Chenango Forks, 
N.Y. By the first wife four sons and two daughters were born. One 
daughter still lives, the wife of Attorney C. H. Horton, of Carbondale, 
Pa., and three sons. One son, Robert, entered the Wyoming Conference 
and preached for a few years, when throat trouble caused him to retire 
from the ministry.
  His pastoral record is as follows: 1856-76, in Methodist Protestant 
Church; Wyoming Conference, 1876, Edmeston; 1877-78, Middlefield; 1879-
81, Sidney Center; 1882-83, Windsor; 1884-85, Waymart; 1886-87, Salem; 
1888-89, Chenango Forks; 1890-92, Clifford; 1893-94, Bethany; 1895-98, 
Jackson; 1899-1900, Foster; 1901-03, sd.