BIO: Joseph Madison, 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 368.
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  Madison, Joseph, was born at St. John's Chapel of Durham, England, on 
September 3, 1830. He was converted when twelve years old at home and 
joined the Wesleyan Methodist Church at once - High House Chapel, on 
the Walsingham Circuit. He had the advantages of the common school, and 
some academical training. When about seventeen he received a clear call 
to the ministry, and at nineteen received local preacher's license from 
the Walsingham Circuit.
  On May 22, 1852, he married Miss Phoebe Wallace in the High House 
Chapel, and came to this county in 1854, settling in Danville, Pa. Two 
sons and a daughter have been born to them. One son has died, the other 
is a pharmacist in the West, and the daughter is the wife of Rev. R. M. 
Pascoe, of this Conference. On their fiftieth anniversary they received 
many calls and congratulations, and a number of friends in the Elm Park 
Church gave them a purse of one hundred dollars in gold.
  He supplied Shohola Mission in 1855, Dundaff with the Rev. Silas 
Barner in 1856, and joined the Conference in 1857. Since retiring from 
active work he has resided in Scranton.
  His pastorates have been as follows: 1857, Thompson; 1858, Cherry 
Ridge; 1859-60, Bethany; 1861-62, Salem; 1863-64, Waymart; 1865-66, 
Barton; 1867-68, Berkshire; 1869-71, Carverton; 1872, Newport; 1873-74, 
Forty Fort; 1875-76, Lackawanna; 1877-79, Dunmore; 1880-81, Waymart; 
1882-84, Moscow; 1885-86, Pleasant Mount; 1887-88, Forest City; 1889-
90, Sterling; 1891-92, Bethany; 1893-94, Wanamie; 1895-97, Yatesville; 
1898-1903, sd.