BIO: Zachariah Paddock, 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 217-219.
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  PADDOCK, ZACHARIAH, D.D., was born on December 20, 1798, in 
Northampton, Montgomery County, N.Y., and died in Binghamton, N.Y., 
July 4, 1879.
  He became a Christian in his eighteenth year, having been awakened 
under the preaching of Bishop McKendree.  In 1818 he was licensed to 
preach, and in the same year joined the Genesee Conference.
  His ministerial life was very long and extremely successful.  He was 
fifty-two years in the effective rank, in which time he was five years 
on circuits, twenty-five on stations, and twenty-two in the presiding 
eldership.
  He found time for careful study, wrote quite extensively for papers 
and periodicals, and was at one time editor of the Auburn Banner, the 
paper which preceded the Northern Christian Advocate.  In 1870 he 
published a 12mo memoir of his brother, Rev. B. G. Paddock.  He also 
published a pamphlet on the Obligation of the Christian Church to 
Support the Christian Ministry.
  In 1845 he received the degree of Doctor of Divinity from Union 
College.
  He was a delegate to General Conference in 1868, and in 1864 was one 
of the reserves.
  He preached a semicentennial sermon of great interest before the 
Wyoming Conference on April 9, 1868 from 1 Thess. v, 21.  It was 
afterward published by request of the Conference.
  In 1870, at his own request, he was made superannuate.  The 
Conference was deeply moved, passed complimentary resolutions, and 
presented him a purse of five hundred dollars.  In his will it was 
found that he had used only the interest of this, and had given the 
principal to the Conference, the interest of which goes to the 
Conference claimants.
  He was peculiarly lovable, and his name was a "synonym for 
gentleness, sweetness, and purity."  So fondly was he loved by the 
people of Binghamton that friends placed a beautiful bust of him in 
Centenary Church of that city.
  His pastoral record is as follows:  1818, Ridgeway; 1819, Sweden; 
1820, Batavia; 1821, French Creek; 1822, Buffalo; 1823, Watertown; 
1824, Westmoreland; 1825, Paris and Utica; 1826, Utica; 1827-28, 
Rochester; 1829-30, Cazenovia; 1831-32, Ithaca; 1833-34, Utica; 1835, 
Auburn; 1836-37, Presiding Elder of Cayuga District; 1838-41, Presiding 
Elder of Oneida District; 1842-45, Presiding Elder of Cazenovia 
District; 1846-47, New York Mills; 1848-49, Binghamton; 1850, Oxford; 
1851, Presiding Elder of Susquehanna District; 1852-54, Presiding Elder 
of Binghamton District; 1855, Chenango Forks; 1856-58, Presiding Elder 
of Owego District; 1859, Franklin Street, Wilkes-Barre; 1860-61, Henry 
Street, Binghamton; 1862-63, Honesdale; 1864-67, Presiding Elder of 
Binghamton District; 1868, Chenango; 1869, Port Dickinson; 1870-79, sd.