BIO: Lloyd W. Karschner, 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 353-354.
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  Karschner, Lloyd Willetts, was born on June 25, 1858, at Sereno, 
Columbia County, Pa. The Christian habits of his parents, who were 
members of the Evangelical Association, early caused him to desire to 
be a child of God. At about ten years of age this longing was very 
greatly strengthened by accidentally finding his mother in a secluded 
place praying in his behalf. On the evening of August 23, 1871, at a 
camp meeting at Hughesville, Pa., he sought the Saviour, and in 
November of the same year joined the Methodist Episcopal Church at 
Wesley Chapel, Benton charge, Central Pennsylvania Conference.
  He received his early education in the common schools of his native 
State, had six terms at a Quaker seminary, and two years at the State 
Normal School at Bloomsburg, Pa., where he graduated in 1883. He taught 
school, before and after graduation, seven years.
  He felt called to the ministry many years, but resisted it. He 
received his first license as local preacher in August, 1884.
  On March 24, 1887, he married Miss Ida G. Brader, of Beach Haven, Pa. 
They have one child, a daughter.
  From 1885 to the spring of 1888 he supplied various charges in the 
Central Pennsylvania Conference, and in the spring of 1888 joined the 
Wyoming Conference.
  His pastoral record is as follows:  1888-90, Exeter and Schuyler's 
Lake; 1891-93, Sterling; 1894-97, Lake Como; 1898, Yatesville; 1899-
1901, Waymart; 1902-03, Pleasant Mount.