BIO: James Ryder, 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 240.
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  RYDER, JAMES, was born in Grantham, Lincolnshire, England, in 1849.  
He was converted in youth, joined the Wesleyan Methodists and became a 
local preacher in that body.  In 1872 he came to America, and at once 
identified himself with the Methodist Episcopal Church.  His gifts were 
soon discovered, and he soon won the esteem and confidence of our 
ministry.  He united with the Wyoming Conference in 1876, after serving 
Spencer as supply from 1873 to 1875.
  With the advantages of a liberal education, vivid imagination, 
retentive memory, good command of language, almost tireless energy, and 
great enthusiasm, he became at once a successful minister of Christ.  
At the close of one year's work at Athens he asked for a supernumerary 
relation, thinking that he might restore his depleted nervous organism.  
It could not be strengthened.  Overwork had so undermined his 
constitution that he could not rally.  On the afternoon of June 12, 
1886, the spirit took its flight.  He was buried in Spencer, N.Y.
  His pastoral record is as follows:  1873-75, Spencer (supply); 1876-
78, Fly Creek; 1879-81, Bainbridge; 1882-84, Unadilla; 1885, Athens; 
1886, sy.