BIO: William McAlpine, 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 365.
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  McAlpine, William, was born on August 25, 1875, in Glasgow, Scotland, 
and came to America when six years of age. He was educated in the 
common schools of Brooklyn, N.Y., and graduated from the Brooklyn High 
School in 1889. He is a graduate of Drew Theological Seminary of the 
class of 1901.
  His conversion occurred so early in life that he does not know the 
date, but at fourteen years of age he was led to a richer experience 
and more perfect consecration. When but a boy he felt called to the 
ministry, but fought against it for years. He yielded in 1898 and 
received local preacher's license. From 1889 to 1898 he was with a dry 
goods house, Marshall Field & Co., in New York.
  On August 7, 1901, he married Miss R. L. Matthews, of Brooklyn, N.Y.
  He joined Conference in 1901, and is now at Narrowsburg, where he was 
first stationed.