BIO: Phineas G. Ruckman, 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 388-389.
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  Ruckman, Phineas G., was born on April 26, 1842, at New Providence, 
N.J. He attended the common school in early boyhood, and when thirteen 
years of age his parents sent him to the Conference Seminary, located 
at Charlotte, Schoharie County, N.Y. Subsequently he attended Falley 
Seminary, at Fulton, N.Y., and also Pennington Seminary. When Drew 
Theological Seminary opened he was one of the first students to 
matriculate, graduating in 1871, and subsequently receiving from Drew 
the degree of B.D. During his time spent in preparatory schools he 
spent his vacations on his father's farm.
  Prior to entering Drew he taught two years. While teaching he 
responded to the nation's call for troops and enlisted in the 30th 
Regiment of New Jersey Volunteers and served at the front nine months, 
after which he began further preparations for his lifework.
  He was converted when seventeen years old, and joined the Church at 
once. The New Providence Church gave him an exhorter's license in 1865. 
In 1866 he was sent to supply Kingwood, N.J., from which church he 
received his first local preacher's license.
  He joined the Newark Conference in 1870, was transferred to the New 
Jersey Conference in 1882, and in 1884 he was transferred to Nebraska 
Conference, thinking he might get rid of malaria contracted in the 
army. A year later he was transferred to West Nebraska Conference, in 
1890 to Newark Conference, and in 1893 to Wyoming Conference.
  On June 1, 1871, he married Miss Emily M. Greene, at Lockport, N.Y., 
who died on June 1, 1886, at Minneapolis, Minn., where she had gone to 
visit some friends. On October 10, 1889, he married Mrs. Luella 
Minshall, at Central City, Neb.
  His pastorates have been as follows: Newark Conference, 1870, 
Sparrowbush; 1871, Centerville and Greenville; 1872-73, New City; 1874, 
Sergeantsville; 1875, sy.; 1876, Hibernia; 1877, Newfoundland and West 
Milford; 1878-80, Buttzville; 1881, West Milford; New Jersey 
Conference, 1882, Deerfield; 1883, Berlin; Nebraska Conference, 1884, 
Exeter; West Nebraska Conference, 1885-86, Big Springs; 1887, Kearney 
Circuit; 1888-89, Arcadia; Newark Conference; 1890-92, Buttzville; 
Wyoming Conference; 1893-94, Brooklyn; 1895-97, Middlefield; 1898, Lake 
Como; 1899, Agent Mallalieu Seminary; 1900-03, sd.