BIO: Marmaduke Pearce, 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 220.
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  PEARCE, MARMADUKE, was born in Paoli, Chester County, Pa., July 18, 
1776.  He came from Irish Protestant parentage.  His great-grandfather, 
with his nine sons, were in the famous battle of the Boyne in 1690, in 
which one son was killed and another wounded.  His grandfather, Edward, 
and his father, Cromwell, came to this country about 1724, and settled 
in Chester County, Pa.  He joined the Methodist Episcopal Church 
December 7, 1808.  After a long struggle concerning his call to the 
ministry he yielded, and received the first license to preach in June, 
1811.  The same year he joined the Genesee Conference, and received 
deacon's orders in 1813, and elder's orders in 1815. His appointments 
were as follows:  1811, Holland Purchase; 1812, Tioga; 1813, Wyoming; 
1814, Shamokin; 1815-18, Presiding Elder on Susquehanna District; 1819, 
Wyoming; 1820, Shamokin, Baltimore Conference; 1821, Northumberland; 
1822, Chambersburg; 1823-24, Carlisle Circuit; 1825-28, Presiding Elder 
of Northumberland District; 1829, Baltimore Circuit; 1830-31, Baltimore 
City; 1832, Northumberland Circuit; 1833, Berwick; 1834, Pittston; 
Oneida Conference; 1835-36, supernumerary; 1837, superannuated, and 
remained so until his death, which occurred on August 11, 1852.
  He made an enviable reputation as a preacher, a master of English 
style, and an able critic in grammar, logic, and rhetoric.