BIO: John H. Race, 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 387-388.
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  Race, John H., D.D., was born on March 10, 1862, at Patrick, Pike 
County, Pa. He is the son of Rev. J. L. Race, and consequently was 
brought up in the Church, but when thirteen years old he made his first 
public profession in a meeting conducted by his father at Nicholson. 
While working in a planing mill at Pittston he lost his hand, which sad 
providence caused him to heed the calls of God to the ministry which he 
had been receiving for many years but refused to obey. He accordingly 
began preparation for the ministry. He graduated from Wyoming Seminary 
in 1886, and from Princeton University in 1890, receiving the degree of 
A.B. In 1899 Syracuse University conferred the degree of D.D. upon him.
  On June 25, 1890, he married Miss Alice Bannister, who for some time 
was instructor in art at Wyoming Seminary.
  He received local preacher's license from Kingston Quarterly 
Conference in 1884, and in 1888 was ordained deacon. In 1890 he joined 
the New Jersey Conference, and in 1894 went to supply Centenary Church, 
Binghamton, for the balance of the year, Dr. Colville having resigned 
soon after Conference. In 1895 he was transferred to this Conference.
  His pastoral record is as follows:  New Jersey Conference, 1890, 
Island Heights; 1890-94, Professor in Wyoming Seminary; 1895-97, 
Centenary, Binghamton; 1898-1903, Chancellor of U.S. Grant University.