BIO: William R. McDermott, 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 370.
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  McDermott, William Richard, was born on January 11, 1878, on a farm 
near Fawn Grove, York County, Pa., where he lived until three years 
old, when he moved to Fawn Grove, his father having died when he was a 
year and nine months old. He attended the school of the town until the 
spring of 1891, when he entered Fawn Grove Academy, where he studied 
until the fall of 1893, when he entered the State Normal School at Lock 
Haven, Pa., from which he graduated in 1895 with the degree of B.E. He 
then taught the school in Fawn Grove two years, after which he received 
the master's degree from his alma mater. In the fall of 1897 he entered 
Lafayette College, from which he graduated in 1901 with the degree of 
Ph.B. He was the historian of his class and one of the editors of the 
class annual, The Melange. In 1901 he joined the Conference, but has 
been left without an appointment so that he might attend school. He is 
now in Drew Theological Seminary.
  He was converted in the fall of 1887, and in the fall of 1899 he 
became clearly convinced that God desired him to enter the ministry. He 
received local preacher's license from the Quarterly Conference of the 
Oneonta Church on December 28, 1900.