BIO: John D. Safford, 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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  SAFFORD, JOHN D., was born in Brooklyn, Susquehanna County, Pa., 
September 14, 1817.  A mother's influence, and helpful reading found in 
the Sunday school library, prepared him for the reception of Christ as 
his Savior.  At a camp meeting held in Brooklyn in 1841 he began to 
seek pardon for his sin.  Peace was found on the Sunday following the 
close of the camp meeting.  In the district school which he taught the 
following winter fourteen of his scholars were converted.  In 1842 he 
was made Sunday school superintendent, appointed class leader, and 
given an exhorter's license.  He received local preacher's license in 
1843, and the following year was called to fill a vacancy on the 
Providence Circuit, which recommended him the same year to the Oneida 
Conference, into which he was received.  He received deacon's orders in 
1846, and elder's orders in 1848.
  His appointments were as follows:  1844, Providence; 1845-46, 
Lackawanna; 1847, Newport Mission; 1848, Northmoreland; 1849, Bethany 
and Mount Pleasant; 1850-51, Beach Pond; 1852, Newton.
  He died at Ransom, Luzerne County, Pa., October 11, 1852, and was 
buried at Brooklyn, Pa.