BIO: Nelson S. Reynolds, 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 234.
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  REYNOLDS, NELSON SINSEBAUGH, was born in Greenfield, N.Y., on April 
13, 1832, and died at his home in Nichols, N.Y. on September 11, 1890.  
His body was laid in the family plot at Sidney Plains, N.Y.
  He was led into the kingdom when about sixteen years of age.
  His educational advantages were such as the common school can give 
and such as he could get by spending some time at the seminary in 
Charlotteville, N.Y.  His limited means would not permit him to 
complete the course, as he was trying to pay his own way through.
  He received a local preacher's license in 1859.  In 1862 he accepted 
work under the presiding elder, and in 1863 joined the Wyoming 
Conference.
  It is said that every charge he served, save one, was blessed with a 
revival, and that over one thousand souls were led to Christ by him.
  When, in 1890, he was appointed to Castle Creek he felt that he could 
not carry on the work.  The result justified his decision.  Cancer of 
the liver terminated his life in the fall.
  In 1862 he married Miss Delia B. Swift.  To them three children were 
born, two of whom, with the wife, survived him.
  His pastoral record is as follows:  1863, Cherry Ridge; 1864-65, 
Tallmansville; 1866-68, Damascus; 1869-71, Hawley; 1872, Berkshire; 
1873-74, Candor; 1875, Sidney Plains; 1876-77, Bainbridge; 1878-79, 
Worcester; 1880, New Berlin; 1881-82, Mount Upton; 1883-85, Plains; 
1888-89, Nichols; 1890, Castle Creek.