BIO: Morgan Ruger, 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 241.
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  RUGER, MORGAN, was born in 1805 in Montgomery County, N.Y., and died 
on October 11, 1851, on the Page Brook Circuit.
  At the age of twenty he became a member of the Methodist Episcopal 
Church.  He was given an exhorter's license October 7, 1826, by Rev. 
John Roper.  In 1828 he received his local preacher's license bearing 
the signature of D. Barnes, presiding elder.  In 1829 he was received 
on trial in the Oneida Conference, received into full connection in 
1831, and ordained deacon by Bishop Soule.  He received elder's orders 
in 1834, resulting from an attack of apoplexy.
  A memoir was published in the first volume of Wyoming Conference 
Minutes.  He, however, died the fall before the organization of the 
Conference, and consequently was never a member of Wyoming Conference.