BIO: Frank H. Parsons, 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 381.
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  Parsons, Frank H., was born on July 18, 1850, near Center Village, 
Broome County, N.Y. His father, Rev. Sylvester Parsons, was a local 
preacher for many years, and his mother is from Methodist stock, being 
a cousin of Bishop Goodsell. His early life was spent on a farm, where 
he received such educational advantages as the district school 
afforded. At the age of nineteen he received a second-grade teacher's 
certificate, and began teaching in the same year in the North Sanford 
public school. He followed teaching in district schools several years, 
teaching winters and going to school summers. After attending the 
academy at Harpursville one term he entered the State Normal School at 
Cortland, where he graduated in 1874. Subsequent to graduation he was 
principal of the graded schools at Harpursville and Chenango Forks.
  He was converted in 1867 between Christmas and New Year's, under the 
preaching of Rev. Silas Barner, in a schoolhouse on Perch Pond Hill, an 
appointment on the Harpursville charge, and joined the Church at once. 
Very soon after conversion he felt called to the ministry, and the 
conviction deepened with the passing years. On September 19, 1875, he 
received an exhorter's license, and on March 28, 1877, the Chenango 
District Conference gave him a local preacher's license, and he joined 
Conference in 1878. He and his father received deacon's orders at the 
same time, in 1880.
  On December 25, 1876, he married Miss Evangeline M. Plough, of Tracy 
Creek. She has been president of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society 
of Binghamton District, and corresponding secretary of the same society 
on Oneonta District.
  His pastorates have been as follows: 1878; Triangle; 1879-80, Willet; 
1881-82, North Fenton; 1883, sy.; 1884-86, Union Center; 1887-89, 
Hawleyton; 1890-91, Vestal; 1892-96, Waverly, Pa.; 1897-1901, Milford; 
1902-03, Greene.