BIO: Richard L. Kenyon, Wyoming Conference, Methodist Episcopal Church, PA & NY Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Judy Banja & Denise Phillips Copyright 2007. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/pafiles.htm ________________________________________________ Chaffee, Amasa Franklin. History of the Wyoming Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. New York: Eaton & Mains, 1904, page 205. ________________________________________________ KENYON, RICHARD L., was born in Broome County, N.Y., in 1830, and died in Evans, Weld County, Colo., on February 11, 1888. He joined Oneida Conference in 1854, and became a member of Wyoming Conference with the accession of Oneida territory in 1869. His going West was for the purpose of securing such a charge of climatic environment as would restore lost health. He lived a number of years in Iowa, and later in Colorado. In both States he did some light work. He died on the charge he last served, and was buried in the same town. His pastoral record is as follows: 1854, Aurora; 1855, McLean; 1856, Pratt's Hollow; 1857-58, Georgetown; 1859, Onondaga Valley; 1860-61, Pompey; 1862, sd.; 1863, Jordanville; 1864-86, sd.; 1887, sy.