BIO: Samuel Moore, 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 373-374.
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  Moore, Samuel, D.D., was born on January 21, 1836, in the town of 
Broome, Schoharie County, N.Y., and was the sixth in a family of seven 
children. He was educated in the public schools and in Norwich Academy. 
For a while he taught school. He was converted in the Methodist 
Episcopal Church at Norwich in the winter of 1855-56. He received local 
preacher's license from the Norwich Quarterly Conference in 1862, and 
after supplying Masonville one year he united with the Oneida 
Conference in 1863. He became a member of this Conference by accession 
of territory. A nervous breakdown in 1889 'caused him to go West for 
recuperation. In 1890 he was transferred to the Puget Sound Conference. 
In 1895 he came East, and in 1896 was transferred to this Conference. 
  On March 14, 1860, he married Miss Laura J. Day of Norwich, N.Y., who 
died on January 31, 1901. Five children were born to them, four of whom 
have passed away. A son, Rev. E. J. Moore, Ph.D., is now a member of 
East Ohio Conference. On February 5, 1902, he married Miss Mary O. 
Brewer, of Norwich, N.Y.
  He received the degree of D.D. from Olympia Collegiate Institute, of 
Olympia, Ore.
  His pastoral record is as follows:  1863, Masonville; 1864-65, South 
New Berlin; 1866, Mount Upton; 1867-69, Gilbertsville; 1870-72, Smyrna; 
1873-74, Worcester; 1875-77, West Pittston; 1878-79, Carbondale; 1880-
82, First Church, Wilkes-Barre; 1883-85, Waverly, N.Y.; 1886, Hyde 
Park, Scranton; 1887-89, Presiding Elder of Owego District; Puget Sound 
Conference; 1889, Financial Agent Puget Sound University; 1890-95, 
Presiding Elder of Tacoma District; Wyoming Conference; 1896-99, 
Norwich; 1900, Financial Agent Wyoming Seminary; 1901-02, Clinton 
Street, Binghamton; 1903, Conference Evangelist.