BIO: Gaylord C. Jacobs, 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 347.
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  Jacobs, Gaylord Clark, was born on January 4, 1854, in the town of 
Candor, Tioga County, N.Y. He spent his early days on the farm, having 
the advantages of a district school. He afterward spent several years 
in study at Candor Free Academy and Wyoming Seminary, having to quit 
school at intervals and teach school or do other work to maintain 
himself. He was converted at sixteen years of age, and joined the 
Church at Fairfield, an appointment on the old Caroline Circuit, now 
Speedsville, being baptized and received into the Church by Rev. G. W. 
Reynolds.
  He received his first license as local preacher from the Kingston 
Quarterly Conference May 23, 1881.
  On October 29, 1881, he married Miss Mina E. Utley. Five children 
have been born to them, three of whom died in early childhood. A son, 
Olin M., and a daughter, Hazel Mae, still live.
  He joined the Conference in 1883, and his pastoral record is as 
follows: 1883, Oakland; 1884-86, Rush; 1887-90, Little Meadows; 1891-
95, Gibson; 1896-98, Newton; 1899, Vestal; 1900-01, Courtdale; 1902-03, 
Old Forge.