BIO: David Personeus, 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 232-233.
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  PERSONEUS, DAVID, was born in Candor, N.Y., on February 14, 1834.  He 
was educated in the common schools.  When sixteen years old, at a 
meeting held in the Brearly Hill schoolhouse on the Slaterville charge, 
he was converted, and joined the church at Slaterville at once.  Soon 
after conversion he felt called to preach, but resisted the call, and 
told no one of his convictions for five years.  He taught day school 
and singing school several years.  In the spring of 1856 Rev. R. Van 
Valkenburg gave him an exhorter's license, and in 1857 he received a 
local preacher's license.  In 1858 he went as supply to Northumberland 
Circuit, and in 1859 joined the Conference.
  In 1855 he married Miss Sarah M. Snow.  A son and daughter have been 
born to them.  The son, Rev. C. B. Personeus, was a member of this 
Conference for some years.
  Apoplexy carried him away on October 28, 1902.  He is buried in 
Candor, N.Y., where he resided after superannuation in 1899.
  His pastoral record is as follows:  1859, Newton; 1860-61, Dundaff; 
1862, Moscow; 1863-64, Lehman; 1865-66, Sterling; 1867-68, sy.; 1869-
71, Athens; 1872-73, Kirkwood; 1874-76, Lisle; 1877, Willet; 1878-79, 
Chenango Forks; 1880, sy.; 1881-83, Castle Creek; 1884-86, Sidney 
Plains; 1887-89, Laurens and Oneonta Plains; 1899-1902, sd.