BIO: Donald S. McKellar, 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 366-367.
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  McKellar, Donald S., was born on January 20, 1863, in the city of 
Greenock, Scotland. His mother died when he was but four years of age 
and he went to live with his grandparents in the western part of 
Scotland, known as the Highlands. He was sent to a private school when 
five years old, and to public school at seven. At the age of twelve he 
began to study Latin under Henry Dunn Smith, A.M., and continued two 
years. After the death of his grandparents he started for America on 
May 19, 1877, and on arriving in this country went to live with an 
uncle, who lived near Marathon, N.Y. He studied for a time at the 
Marathon Academy. In 1881 he entered the employ of the Delaware, 
Lackawanna, and Western Railroad Company in Binghamton, N.Y., and 
worked in the freight department until April, 1892. During two winters 
while thus employed he studied under a graduate of Princeton, devoting 
four evenings a week to the work. In April, 1892, he became secretary 
of the railroad Young Men's Christian Association at Whitehall, N.Y., 
remaining there until April, 1894, when he resigned his position for 
the purpose of entering the ministry.
  He was converted at Killawog, N.Y., in March, 1879. He united with 
the Centenary Church of Binghamton and afterward transferred to Clinton 
Street, where he became assistant Sunday school superintendent. In 1895 
he was sent as supply to Clifford, and in 1896 joined the Conference. 
He received his first local preacher's license from the Whitehall 
Quarterly Conference, in February, 1893.
  On April 17, 1883, he married Miss Minnie A. Burnam, of Binghamton, 
N.Y., who died at Beach Lake, Pa., on December 15, 1901.
  He became a citizen of the United States on the day after he was 
twenty-one.
  His pastoral record is as follows:  1896-97, Clifford; 1898-1901, 
Beach Lake; 1902-03, assistant at Franklin Street, Wilkes-Barre.